In 1912 when Spanish artist Pablo Picasso made the papier collé, Glass and Bottle of Suze, he was thirty-one, had visited Paris for the first time in 1900 and had lived there fairly continuously since 1904.  By 1912 he had achieved a certain reputation, even internationally, and had a supportive dealer, D.H. Kahnweiler.  Even more significant is the fact that Picasso was at the apogee of his close relationship with the French painter Georges Braque.  It was in May of that year that Picasso had made the “first” collage, the famous horizontal oval, Still Life with Chair Caning (1912, Musee Picasso, Paris), with its pasted oilcloth and frame of rope.  In September of that year Braque limited a collage to pasted paper and produced the first papier collé.  Picasso soon followed Braque, even using the decorator’s tricks of combining paint to give effect of wood graining and of using decorators’ materials like wallpaper, devices Braque had learned from his father.  Picasso also ventured forth into another more daring (and less durable) form of paper – newsprint.  Often, as in Washington University’s Glass and Bottle of Suze, the newspaper came from the sensational Parisian daily, Le Journal, which he seems to have read voraciously, here using the issue of 18 November 1912.