Henri Matisse

While living in Paris, Mirrlees and Harrison entertained visitors who included HM 's mother (widowed in 1924), and Virginia and Leonard Woolf . The two women were acquainted with Edith Wharton , Dorothy (Strachey)

Her tour of the city with Chadbourne included the studios of Matisse and Picasso (in Montmartre), and Gertrude 's and Leo Stein 's collection of contemporary paintings.

With this purchase Gertrude and Leo embarked on a course that made them not only patrons but also close friends of Matisse and the circle of young, emerging artists congregated in Paris: painters Georges Braque

Picasso and his lover Fernande Bellevalleé (later Olivier) were hosting a small dinner to hear Rousseau play the violin. The small dinner swelled in size as word-of-mouth circulation made its existence known. But the caterer...

Simon Bussy , Dorothy's future husband, was born Albert Bussy in 1870, at Dole in the Jura, which he left in 1886. He arrived in Paris in 1896, where he studied at the Académie Carmen