The great interest suddenly taken by Picasso and his anarchist friends in dark continent and African artik motivated in this way: it was a Tadical avant-garde gesture, a provocative and Tot simply an appreciative, still less an aesthetic, response Picasso's intimate involvement is illustrated by a photograph of hinn in 1908 in his Paris studio taken by an American writer, Gelett Burgess, who published it in 1910 in an article entitled "The Wild Men of Paris.