"One thing is dreadfully out of place in the living room, otherwise decorated tastefully and affluently with antique wooden and leather furniture, figurative sculpture, and original framed portraits. It is a poster of an extremely famous and influential painting by Braque called LePortugais or, in English, The Emigrant.
"According to Anita, it depicts an accordianist on a boat and is a masterpiece of analytical cubism, but I can make out only a hand, a face, and a rope fastened to a post on a dock. One time when I was in the public library, I looked it up."
Ma Jolie