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

4.0

Reading this book is like crawling into the lap of a worldly great-aunt to look at her scrapbooks of her younger years in Paris. As you flip through the pages, looking at each artifact, she weaves the story of the birth of modern art and what it was like living in 1900's Paris together. I have had a strong urge to go back to Paris and this book only exacerbated this feeling. Fun to read to get a good sense of the times and characters.