The Cubist Painters, Aesthetic Meditations
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Les Peintres Cubistes, Méditations Esthétiques, is a book written by Guillaume Apollinaire between 1905 and 1912, published in 1913. This was the third major text on Cubism; following Du "Cubisme" by Albert Gleizes and Jean Metzinger (1912); and André Salmon, Histoire anecdotique du cubisme (1912).
Guillaume Apollinaire, Les Peintres Cubistes, Méditations Esthétiques (The Cubist Painters, Aesthetic Meditations), published by Eugène Figuière Éditeurs, Collection "Tous les Arts", Paris, 1913 (cover)
Marie Laurencin, 1909, Réunion à la campagne (Apollinaire et ses amis), oil on canvas, 130 x 194 cm, Musée Picasso, Paris. Alternative titles: La Noble compagnie, Le Rendez-vous des amis: Gertrude Stein, Fernande Olivier, a muse, Guillaume Apollinaire, Fricka the dog, Pablo Picasso, Marguerite Gillot, Maurice Cremnitz and Marie Laurencin.
Jean Metzinger, c.1913, Le Fumeur (Man with Pipe), oil on canvas, 129.7 x 96.68 cm, Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Exhibited at the 1914 Salon des Indépendants, Paris. Metzinger painted several portraits of Apollinaire, 1909–10, 1911 and this work which, according to Apollinaire, is "said to be a portrait of myself". · · · ·
Guillaume Apollinaire during the spring of 1916 after his shrapnel wound to the temple
Guillaume Apollinaire
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Guillaume Apollinaire was a French poet, playwright, short story writer, novelist and art critic of Polish descent.
Photograph of Guillaume Apollinaire in spring 1916 after a shrapnel wound to his temple
Apollinaire, 1902, Cologne
"La Joconde est Retrouvée" (The Mona Lisa is Found), Le Petit Parisien, No. 13559, 13 December 1913
Jean Metzinger, 1911, Étude pour le portrait de Guillaume Apollinaire, graphite on paper, 48 × 31.2 cm, Musée National d'Art Moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris