Upon arriving in Paris Amedeo is said to have been a bit of a loner, at first; an isolated figure that went about a lot, sketching all day, drinking moderately and then painting in his somewhat posh studio in Montmartre. Within a year this changed completely; not only that he was to become one of the wildest bohemians and drinkers - sometimes even making such spectacles of himself as stripping naked - but also made quite a few painter friends. Among these he was the closest to Chaim Soutine and poor crazy Maurice Utrillo; of Picasso he at first had said that he was a genius, but he despised Pablo’s choice of wearing workman’s clothes; he was somewhat of a shabby dandy himself. He painted many of them, some quite a few times.
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