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from the Rue de Seine, who was an old friend of Picasso's, to see Picasso, to see if we could buy any paintings from him directly, as nobody ever seemed to have any. Picasso was much shorter than I, but with a face of such vitality that he seemed radioactive, almost. He was so alive, so interested, so gesticulating He spoke in French, with a Spanish accent, and it was hard for me to communicate much with him. But he did show us some pictures, and I had them brought to show to my husband, and we bought seven or eight. No, five, and two small ones. And then he gave us one small one.

Of these, Mrs. Brody has two and Mrs. Block has one and she sold one. I have one, a so-called landscape of Paris in 1945. There were two small picture, not three. One I have here, and one in the country.

You has one that so impressed me in the country -- the nude, in the bathroom.

Yes; that's a drawing. Picasso must have needed money at that time, because normally he doesn't sell except through Con Weiler. He makes terrific difficulty about selling through any dealers, and is very perverse, according to most people who deal with him. But this seemed to go quite well with Pierre Loeb, and quickly.

I think I saw him twice. I felt that I had been in touch with a man of fantastic vitality, super-alive. In fact,