Ramon Pichot

He was a good friend of Pablo Picasso and an early mentor to young Salvador Dalí.

[citation needed] Together they had a restaurant near the Bateau Lavoir, called La maison rose.

Pichot left Paris after World War I but returned often to buy books, as he had turned into a bibliophile.

Picasso was so shaken by this that he included Pichot's figure in the painting "Three Dancers", on which he was working at the time.

[1] In The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas, Gertrude Stein describes Pichot as follows: ...Spanish painter Pichot, [...] was rather a wonderful creature, he was long and thin like one of those primitive Christs in Spanish churches and when he did a Spanish dance which he did later at the famous banquet to Rousseau, he was awe-inspiringly religious.