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Holland Cotter's "The <span style="display: inline !important; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
Pariah</span> of Paris," a review of <i>Picasso: The Foreigner</i> by Annie Cohen-Solal, was published in the Sunday, May 14, 2023, print issue of the <i>New York Times Book Review</i>. It is evocative of the reception of Woolf in Great Britain after her death
in some respects (note: there are two iterations of the review—the first one, titled "Pablo Picasso, the Pariah of Paris," was published online on 1 April 2023 and has more illustrations: <a href="https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/01/books/picasso-the-foreigner-annie-cohen-solal.html__;!!KGKeukY!3aaCpAit6nuA5W2CQFWAk6j9lTVrzlpLQu86_WUM8azsOC7GP7hd3MvgL5vueej-6AMNcn3_q8L1GvcG4jzCZ3zLHrZV$" id="LPNoLPOWALinkPreview">https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/01/books/picasso-the-foreigner-annie-cohen-solal.html</a>). </div>
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The review is very interesting and well worth reading (I do hope the link is function) and so seems the book itself in which Picasso's life as an outsider in France is detailed. The rejection of <span style="display: inline !important; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="ContentPasted6">Picasso's
artwork in France, cast aside by the "tradition-minded French cultural establishment" (as per Cotter), </span>echoes the marginalization of Woolf's work (despite Leonard Woolf's attempts to keep Virginia's work visible and viable and, <span style="display: inline !important; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="ContentPasted9">after
Leonard's death, </span>Quentin Bell's own continuing efforts to write a biography, <span class="ContentPasted8 ContentPasted14" style="margin: 0px; display: inline !important; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">however contested, </span>and also maintain
Virginia's literary status by publishing her letters and diaries). </div>
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Outright r<span class="ContentPasted12" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 12pt; display: inline !important; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">ejection and neglect are closely related in terms of marginalizing artists and writers.<span class="ContentPasted12"> </span></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">With
regard to reception, one can relish in retrospect how extremely embarrassing it is that t</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">he Louvre rejected Picasso's offer of
</span><i style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-weight: inherit;">Les Demoiselles d'Avignon</i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> (1907)</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">,
which</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> t</span><span class="ContentPasted13" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">he Museum of Modern
Art in New York happily acquired in 1939 (<a href="https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.moma.org/research/conservation/demoiselles/history.html__;!!KGKeukY!3aaCpAit6nuA5W2CQFWAk6j9lTVrzlpLQu86_WUM8azsOC7GP7hd3MvgL5vueej-6AMNcn3_q8L1GvcG4jzCZ-1ZdBC9$" id="LPlnk863218">https://www.moma.org/research/conservation/demoiselles/history.html</a>). </span></div>
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<span class="ContentPasted13" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">It was the New York Public Library that acquired Woolf's archival work. As</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> Mark
Hussey highlights in his essay "Virginia Woolf in America" (</span><i style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-weight: inherit;">A Room of Their Own: The </i><span class="ContentPasted1" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><i>Bloomsbury</i><span class="ContentPasted1"><i> Artists
in American Collections</i>, 2009), </span></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Leonard Woolf believed that Virginia was not going to be recognized or respected in her home country and wrote
in a letter to his brother that, "if the MSS went to Cambridge or Oxford, they would be stuffed away some</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">where and no one would ever look at them again
except that one would be shown from time to </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">time to the public under a glass case." Mark continues: "</span><span class="ContentPasted11 ContentPasted15" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Thus
the bulk of Woolf's archive found its way to the Berg Collection of the New York Public Library" (49). (The first wave of archival materials was acquired in 1958; the
<i>New York Times </i>refers to this early acquisition in article on William Beekman's amazing artifacts that were purchased for the Berg Collection in 2019: <a href="https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.nytimes.com/2019/11/20/arts/virginia-woolf-nypl.html__;!!KGKeukY!3aaCpAit6nuA5W2CQFWAk6j9lTVrzlpLQu86_WUM8azsOC7GP7hd3MvgL5vueej-6AMNcn3_q8L1GvcG4jzCZ5_HBzsF$" id="LPNoLPOWALinkPreview_1">https://www.nytimes.com/2019/11/20/arts/virginia-woolf-nypl.html</a>;
the recent Berg exhibition included many of these materials).</span><br>
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Woolf was, after her own death, neglected in her own country for a significantly long period of time (of course, Brenda Silver's 1999 <i>Virginia Woolf Icon
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