LIFE proclaimed it “one of the world’s foremost colonies of displaced persons.” Its denizens, the magazine said, were a peculiar people who loved adventure, yet preferred “their own way of life.” They ...

Paris was the central place for modern art in the first half of the 20th Century, if not the only place. As Gertrude Stein put it: “Paris was where the 20th Century was.” And artists from all over ...