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With unbelievable nerve, Picasso, along with Georges Braque, a housepainter turned modernist painter, eliminated almost all color and perspective from their work.

Georges Braque’s 1929 “The Round Table,” a cubist still life, is also an oil, but one in which sand was distinctively worked into the paint.

As she observes, it was often in dialogue with the French artists Georges Braque and Henri Matisse that Picasso was spurred on to new innovations.

And one can only wonder what Braque might have thought on hearing of Picasso saying, “Braque is the woman who loved me the most.”

Impressionism had slipped out of fashion, and a younger generation of brash upstarts, including Georges Braque and Pablo Picasso, were making noise with Cubism and other fresh concepts.