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  Marie Vassilieff Information - TextSheet.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Marie Vassilieff and Max Jacob decided to organize a dinner for Braque and his wife, Marcelle.
A scuffle ensued, a pistol appeared, and Marie Vassilieff, all 5 feet of her, pushed Modigliani downstairs while Pablo Picasso and Manuel Ortiz de Zarate locked the door.
As artist and friend, Marie Vassilieff was an integral part of the great creative community of Montparnasse where today one can still see her ornamental panels made in 1927 for the pillars in the dining room of the La Coupole.
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 Pablo Picasso - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
In Paris, in addition to having a distinguished coterie of friends in the Montmartre and Montparnasse quarters, including André Breton, Guillaume Apollinaire, writer Gertrude Stein and others, he usually maintained a number of mistresses in addition to his wife or primary partner.
Picasso carried on a longstanding affair with Marie Thérèse and fathered a daughter, Maya, with her.
Marie Thérèse lived in the vain hope that Picasso would one day marry her and eventually hanged herself after Picasso's death.
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 MARIE VASSILIEFF FACTS AND INFORMATION   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Before long the walls of Marie Vassilieff’s atelier held a collection of paintings by Marc_Chagall and Modigliani, drawings by Picasso and Fernand_Leger, and in a corner sat a sculpture by Zadkine.
Marie Vassilieff and Max_Jacob decided to organize a dinner for Braque and his wife, Marcelle.
Her own artwork was primarily in the Cubist style, her most interesting paintings were those of portraits of dancers as well as those of her friends Jean_Cocteau, Picasso and Matisse.
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 Marie Vassilieff
In 1912 Vassilieff founded her own academy, called Académie Vassilieff, it was located on the Avenue du Maine in Montparnasse.
Always a true modernist, Vassilieff was among the Parisian avant-garde that left a legacy in passion and ingenuity.
Vassilieff’s atelier is now the Musée Montparnasse, nestled in a charming vine covered ally on the Avenue du Maine.
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 Jean Cocteau   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
As a leading member of the surrealist movement, he had great influence on the work of others, including the group of composer friends in Montparnasse known as Les Six.
On the sunny afternoon of August 12, 1916, Pablo Picasso and his new girlfriend, the fashion model Paquerette, Max Jacob, Manuel Ortiz de Zarate, Marie Vassilieff, Henri-Pierre Roché, Moise Kisling, Amedeo Modigliani and the critic André Salmon were all sitting together outside the café La Rotonde in Montparnasse.
Girlfriend, Paquerette wore a long elegant dress and a very silly hat while Max Jacob at least looked as though he was sober and respectable and the tiny Marie Vassilieff appeared the formidable little lady she was.
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 iqexpand.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Look for Marie vassilieff in the Commons, our repository for free images, music, sound, and video.
Marie Vassilieff, Léon-Paul Fargue, Alberto Giacometti, Andre Breton, Pascin, Salvador Dalí, Jean-Paul Sartre, Henry Miller, Samuel Beckett, Joan Miró and in his declining years, Edgar Degas.
Located at the site of the former early 1900s atelier of the Russian painter, Marie Vassilieff, it was founded by Roger Pic and Jean-Marie Drot as a non-profit operation.
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 VASSILIEFF MARIE
Marie Vassilieff was born in Smolensk in 1884 and first studied medicine in Saint Petersburg in 1902 before deciding to become an artist.
Marie took part in all the yearly Salons of Paris from 1909 et made frequent trips to Scandinavia, Romania, Poland and Russia until 1914.
Marie worked under the influence of Delaunay and Léger in a primary cubist style also based on popular Russian art with themes relating to childhood and religion.
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 Metropole Paris - Foujita in Montparnasse
Five years before this, Marie Vassilieff, who was born in Smolensk, came to Paris.
Marie made a drawing of the scene of Modigliani's entry, which contains the entire events of the evening.
Tsuguharu Foujita was born in Toyko in 1886.
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 Nina Hamnett   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
From 1906 to 1907 she studied at the Pelham Art School and then at the London School of Art until 1910.
In 1914 she went to the Montparnasse Quarter in Paris, France to study at Marie Vassilieff/'s Academy.
On her first night in the Bohemian community she went to the café ''La Rotond'' where the man at the next table introduced himself as "Modigliani, painter and Jew".
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 Montparnasse - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Manuel Ortiz de Zárate, Camilo Mori and others made their way from Chile where the profound innovations in art spawned the formation of the Grupo Montparnasse in Santiago.
In the 1915 photograph in front of La Rotonde seen here, is (left to right): Manuel Ortiz de Zárate, Henri-Pierre Roché (in uniform), Marie Vassilieff, Max Jacob and Pablo Picasso
Montparnasse was a community where creativity was embraced with all its oddities, each new arrival welcomed unreservedly by its existing members.
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 departures.com | Lost Art   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
But then he had been friends with everyone—with Picasso, the Surrealists, people like Cocteau and Gris and the Russian painter Marie Vassilieff, who kept a canteen in her studio where all the artists ate, and where there was a famous dinner for Braque after he came back from World War I."
The year-old Museum of Montparnasse lies in the shadow of the hideous Montparnasse Tower, in a cul-de-sac of rickety, creeper-covered artists' studios dating from the turn of the century—the sort of alley that was once all over the quarter.
The museum is in Marie Vassilieff's old studio!" She led me back down to the alley and unlocked a door off to the right.
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Their friend, Cocteau, recorded for posterity this extraordinary gathering of talent in a series of 21 photographs showing such characters as a dapper Picasso dressed à l'anglaise with a flat cap, cane and briar pipe.
Paquerette wore a long elegant dress and a very silly hat, while Max Jacob at least looked as though he was sober and respectable, and the tiny Marie Vassilieff appeared the formidable little lady she was.
In 1918 he met the 15 year old poet Raymond Radiguet, with whome he had an intense and often stormy relationship until the latter's premature death while on a trip together.
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 Jean Cocteau First Edition 1920 Carte Blanche   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Articles also discuss classical music and composers such as Debussy, Beethoven, Schubert, Schumann, Ravel; philosophers such as Goethe; and artists of the theatre and cinema such as Charlie Chaplin.
His 1918 publication Le Coq et l'Arlequin (which I am also selling) is said to have started it off.
At this time he was associated with Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse, Fernand Leger, the fashion model Paquerette, Max Jacob, Manuel Ortiz de Zarate, Marie Vassilieff, Henri-Pierre Roché, Moise Kisling, Amedeo Modigliani, André Salmon and others.
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 Musée du Montparnasse
The museum provides visitors with a history of the multitude of artists who came from around the world to live and work in Montparnasse at the beginning of the 20th century plus it puts on temporary exhibitions of works by Montparnasse artists, both past and present.
During the years before and during World War I, Marie Vassilieff operated a canteen for artists where food and drink was provided as cheaply as possible to struggling painters such as Amedeo Modigliani, Chaim Soutine, Pablo Picasso and others.
Before long it became the gathering place for others in the area and by 1913, Vassilieff's canteen was so widely known that Fernand Leger gave two lectures there on the topic of Modern art.
www.paris-tours.info /tourist-information/musee-du-montparnasse.asp   (219 words)

  
 Bonjour Paris -- France related Articles written for and from Francophiles   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
In 1912, the Académie du Montparnasse opened its doors in the alleyway, and Russian artist Marie Vassilieff quickly followed suit to launch her Atelier Russe.
From 1915-1918, she operated the Cantine des Artistes, a soup kitchen that fed the artists who had not enlisted to fight or left the country during World War I. She occupied her atelier until 1929; 69 years later, the present day Musée du Montparnasse was inaugurated in the same space.
The pillars of the café-restaurant La Coupole bear the fruits of their labor (including that of Marie Vassilieff).
www.bonjourparis.com /publications/articles.php?articleId=1517   (1198 words)

  
 Marie Vassilieff   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
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 Paris Museums
The atelier where the artist worked has remained intact.
Marie Vassilieff was a Russian painter and her atelier became a museum in an enchanting dead end, full of flowers and vegetation.
During the Great War, Marie Vassilieff started a soup kitchen for needy artists.
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 Articles - Marie Vassilieff   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Mariya Ivanovna Vassiliéva, (February 12, 1884 May 14, 1957), better known as Marie Vassilieff, was a Russian painter.
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 Metropole Paris - The Unseen Beehive
The Russians were showing up at the turn of the century, although the first date I have is 1910, when Marc Chagall arrived and stayed a short time at La Ruche.
In the same year, Marie Vassilieff opened her Russian Academy at 54.
Without fixing dates, Ossip Zadkine, Marevna Vorobiev, Moïse Kisling, Chaïm Soutine, his pal Michel Kikoïne, and many, many others spent some time at La Ruche; drinking tea in the Russian fashion and having their home away from home, together.
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 Amazon.com: Books: Marie Vassilieff, 1884-1957: Eine russische Künstlerin in Paris   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
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 Posh   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
WASHINGTON (AFP) - 'I'm going to the opera!' joked Marie Ra 1000 vix, snatching up a dramatic, long brown fur coat with delight as animal rights group PETA handed the symbols of sartorial luxury to the homeless poor.
many would wander over to artist Marie Vassilieff's soup kitchen (more gently called her "Cantine") for a meal and conversation with fellow starving artists.
The Russian painter Pinkus Kremegne got off the train at the Gare de l'Est with three rubles in his pocket.
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 Jean Cocteau explained   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Then, too, the old Aztecs and what Cortez and his soldiers took from them." "My!
This is quite like a lecture in history!" exclaimed Mary with a golden images there, as you say there are so many in the underground them.
I'll bring you back one of shelf I think," and Tom pointed to a vacant space on the mantle.
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 Maria Ivanova VASSILIEFF Art Auction Sales and Market Information by artprice.com
Maria Ivanova VASSILIEFF Art Auction Sales and Market Information by artprice.com
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 MARIA IVANOVA VASSILIEFF Fine Art Artist: Artists' art auction database + Biography
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 Jean Cocteau biography .ms   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
However, despite the fact that the word surrealism was coined by Guillaume Apollinaire to describe Cocteau's 1917 collaboration with Erik Satie, Pablo Picasso, and Léonide Massine Parade, self-proclaimed surrealist leader André Breton declared Cocteau a, "notorious false poet, a versifier who happens to debase rather than to elevate everything he touches." (Breton, 1953)
Cocteau, Jean, The Human Voice, translated by Carl Wildman, Vision Press Ltd., Great Britain, 1947
Cocteau, Jean, The Infernal Machine And Other Plays, translated by W.A. Auden, E.E. Cummings, Dudley Fitts, Albert Bermel, Mary C. Hoeck, and John K. Savacool, New Directions Books, New York, 1963
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 Marie Vassilieff, 1884-1957 : Eine Russische Kunstlerin in Paris
Marie Vassilieff, 1884-1957 : Eine Russische Kunstlerin in Paris
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