Word: brassai
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Jacob, Eluard, Breton, Sabartès, Gertrude Stein-almost all the friends and legendary figures who made the "heroic" years of the French avant-garde and constituted the tribunal against which Picasso could measure himself-are dead. "When I see you," he recently told one friend, Photographer Georges Brassai, "my first reaction is to reach in my pocket for a package of cigarettes to offer you one, like the old days. I know very well that we don't smoke any more. Age has obliged us to renounce them, but the desire remains! Same thing for making love...