Max Jacob

Between 1901 and 1904, the painter traveled back and forth between Paris and Spain, further developing his style and technique.

Perhaps influenced by his friend and poet, Max Jacob, Picasso's art drifted away from reality.

Instead, he tried to express the subjective and spiritual experiences of what he was living.

During another period of financial hardship, Picasso could not afford oil paint.

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Famous visitors included the writer Franz Kafka and the poet Max Jacob, who joined a public vigil in the Salon Carré.

Vendors outside the museum sold commemorative postcards and other souvenirs.

And the international press was eating it up.

Finally, the moment you've been waiting for.

At the beginning of the episode, I asked, is it true police suspected Pablo Picasso in the theft of the Mona Lisa? This one's an actual fact.

In September of 1911, French police detained the poet Guillaume Apollinaire, who had ties to a man named Jarry Paré.

Now, Paré had previously stolen small Iberian stone statues from the Louvre and sold them to a young Pablo Picasso.