Robert Doisneau - Picasso

In their lettered canvases both men [Picasso and Braque] repeatedly used Le Journal, their favorite newspaper - pictorially, anyhow. At first they inserted its name in full, and then in abbreviations, such as JOURN, JOUR, JOU or even LEJO, all of which made it the Paris daily with the most artistic unpaid publicity in newspaper history.

Janet Flanner, Men & Monuments: Profiles of Picasso, Matisse, Braque & Malraux

LE JOUR of Braque is now in the Washington National Gallery, in the Eastern wing, totally devoted to the modern art. Not far from the sculptures of Brancusi, the head of a woman, the two birds in space, and Maiastra. Brancusi occupies the centre of the room.

In front of his sculptures is a farm, by Joan Miro. It gives such an intense feeling, with its amalgamation if independent details, with a mix of a primitive realism and formal cubism

LE JOUR of Braque hangs on the opposite wall, and I have always some kind of a strange feeling, that it is very important what works stay around the sculptures of Brancusi, his Maiastra, his Birds in Space, have to be honored by masterpieces around - and everything around speaks about modern beauty, the Farm of Miro, LE JOUR of Braque.



And the JOU of Picasso - I have seen it only on the web - it is at London, at the National Gallery.