This sculpture is outside of Èglise Saint-Germain des près. This is a memorial to Guillaume Apollinaire and Pablo Picasso is the sculptor of this sculpture. 🙂 The subject posing for the bust was Dora Maar who was a companion of Pablo Picasso. Guillaume Apollinairer and Pablo Picasso were friends. Dora Maar was a photographer and painter from Yugoslavia who met Pablo Picasso in 1935 or 1936. They worked together but they also became lovers for about 9 years. My favorite restaurant to eat a nice omelet natural for breakfast is "Cafe des Deux Magots". Picasso and Maar (surname was really Markovitch) met at this restaurant. Picasso was asked to contribute a memorial sculpture of the famous poet, Apollinaire, but there was a delay in the submission of the memorial work of art by Picasso because his first submission was rejected as too abstract (what did they expect from a surrealist artist like Picasso). Eventually Picasso offered this monument to his friend (who died of influenza shortly after world war I) using the bust of Dora Maar rather than sculpting a new bust of Apollinaire. And it was accepted!! Now THAT is surrealism, or probably more appropriately Dadaist.
Gertrude Stein told Ernest Hemingway that he should buy art instead of spending money on clothing and such. He was not wealthy at the time and neither am I. Ernest Hemingway did manage to buy some art works and I also am taking Gertrude Stein's advice to heart. I just have to find good art with Instagram and Pinterest friends to buy art that I can afford. Here is one such art work that I bought from @lillys_press. This artwork is called "Two Birds".