Picasso’s several contributions include his 1990 “The Moulin de la Galette,” a Montmartre cafe scene that drips with nocturnal mood and pleasure. “Picasso is very important,” said Thomson.

Reports Picasso’s mistress of that day, Fernande Olivier: “Happily, he fell in love with the daughter of a dairyman who hired him each day to sculpture animals and flowers in mounds of butter.” ...

Picasso’s buried treasure Using X-rays and Silicon Valley technology, conservators have discovered a previously unknown painting behind the artist's "Rue de Montmartre." ...

In her latest book, “In Montmartre: Picasso, Matisse and the Birth of Modernist Art,” British writer Sue Roe offers a lively and concise account of their lives during a 10-year period when ...

Sue Roe's In Montmartre: Picasso, Matisse and the Birth of Modernist Art reads at times like a novel, too. She writes of the public rejection, the crippling artistic doubts, the petty feuds and ...