Georges Braque was a major 20th-century French painter, collagist, draughtsman, printmaker and sculptor. His most notable contributions were in his alliance with Fauvism from 1905, and the role he played in the development of Cubism. Braque's work between 1908 and 1912 is closely associated with that of his colleague Pablo Picasso. Their respective Cubist works were indistinguishable for many years, yet the quiet nature of Braque was partially eclipsed by the fame and notoriety of Picasso.
Chaïm Soutine was a French painter of Belarusian-Jewish origin of the School of Paris, who made a major contribution to the Expressionist movement while living and working in Paris.
Pinchus Krémègne, aka Pinchus Kremegne, was a Lithuanian Belarusian Jewish-French artist, primarily known as a sculptor, painter and lithographer.
Vallespir is a historical Catalan comarca in Northern Catalonia, part of the French department of Pyrénées-Orientales.
Céret is a commune in the Pyrénées-Orientales department in southern France. It is the capital of the historic Catalan comarca of Vallespir.
The arrondissement of Céret is an arrondissement of France in the Pyrénées-Orientales department in the Occitanie region. It has 64 communes. Its population is 129,464 (2016), and its area is 1,214.1 km2 (468.8 sq mi).
Sorède is a commune in the Pyrénées-Orientales department in southern France.
Stephen Cohn is an American composer of concert and film music living in Los Angeles, California. His compositional style embraces an expanded tonality with a 21st-century perspective.
Serralongue is a commune in the Pyrénées-Orientales department in southern France.
Saint-André is a commune in the Pyrénées-Orientales department in southern France.
Oms is a commune in the Pyrénées-Orientales department in southern France.
Maureillas-las-Illas is a rural commune in the Vallespir, Pyrénées-Orientales in the south of France. The commune belongs to the Communauté de communes of Vallespir uniting Maureillas-las-Illas with nine other communes.
La Bastide is a commune in the Pyrénées-Orientales department in southern France.
L'Albère is a commune in the Pyrénées-Orientales department in southern France.
Calmeilles is a commune in the Pyrénées-Orientales department in southern France. Historically and culturally, the commune is in the Aspres region, a small Roussillon territory between the Têt valley in the North and the Tech valley in the South.
Violon et Raisins is a 1912 oil on canvas painting by Pablo Picasso. This painting was one of five works exhibited by the artist at Galerie Goltz, Munich, along with Tête de femme. It is now in the Museum of Modern Art in New York City.
The Canton of Céret is a French former canton of Pyrénées-Orientales department, in Languedoc-Roussillon. It had 22,167 inhabitants (2012). It was disbanded following the French canton reorganisation which came into effect in March 2015.
The Canton of Vallespir-Albères is a French canton of Pyrénées-Orientales department, in Occitanie. At the French canton reorganisation which came into effect in March 2015, the canton was created including 8 communes from the canton of Céret and 5 from the canton of Argelès-sur-Mer.
The War memorial of Céret is a World War I memorial in France, located in Céret (Pyrénées-Orientales). The memorial is made of light gray sandstone and consists of a symbolic figure of a mourning woman seated on top of an inscribed base. The figure was sculpted by Aristide Maillol, who worked on it from 1919 to 1920. The memorial was inaugurated in 1922, and it was declared a national monument in 1994.
