A review by mattshervheim
In Montmartre: Picasso, Matisse and the Birth of Modernist Art by Sue Roe

4.0

A solid introduction to the history and influences of modernist art. It's a little bit dry, tending towards facts and dates rather than storytelling, but it's extremely thorough and intelligently presented, the cast of characters could hardly have been more colorful, and there are a few wonderful sections — like when Derain and Matisse go to Collioure for the summer — that really caught my imagination.

Braque described modernist painting as capturing "not an anecdote, but a pictorial fact." I'm beginning to appreciate what he means.