Tile Mosaic c. 1920s & 30s
Collected from La Closerie des Lilas
Paris, France
Ceramic, metal, wood
On loan from the estate of Juan Auguste "Le Neuf" Pierre

"My back is turned and my attentions occupied, would he [Hemingway] attempt to bed my wife? Without a doubt. Would he succeed? How could he? In the ways of the here and now, he is lost. But on paper he is in his element. The irony of our relations - I live for today and he will live forever." Ted Perez to George Plimpton at the world premiere of the John Wayne classic 'Rio Lobo' in which both men had bit parts.