Acknowledgements

Warm thanks to my literary agent Gill Coleridge of Rogers, Coleridge and White for support and encouragement from the start, and to Cara Jones; also to Melanie Jackson of Melanie Jackson Agency, New York; and to my editors Juliet Annan of Fig Tree and Ginny Smith and Jeff Alexander of Penguin, New York; and to copy-editor, Sarah Day. Thanks also to the team at Documentations Orsay, Musée d’Orsay, Paris, for kindly supplying information. In researching this book, I benefited greatly from visits to the museums of Paris and Collioure, particularly the Musée de Montmartre and the Musée du Cinéma, Bercy, Paris, the Musée de Collioure and the Médiathèque Ludovic Massé, Céret. In researching the pictures, I was very grateful for the assistance of John Moelwyn-Hughes of the Bridgeman Art Library; Mark Dowd of TopFoto; and Sue Bateman and Jehane Boden-Spiers of Yellow House Art Licensing. Steve Ward has generously supported and encouraged me throughout. I was in grateful receipt of generous support from the Authors’ Foundation, via the Society of Authors.

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