Editing Guillaume Apollinaire (section)

===Paris===
Apollinaire eventually moved from Rome to Paris in 1900<ref name="Baxter2009">{{cite book|author=John Baxter|title=Carnal Knowledge: Baxter's Concise Encyclopedia of Modern Sex|url=https://archive.org/details/carnalknowledgeb00baxt|url-access=registration|access-date=24 December 2011|date=10 February 2009|publisher=HarperCollins|isbn=978-0-06-087434-6|page=[https://archive.org/details/carnalknowledgeb00baxt/page/13 13]}}</ref> and became one of the most popular members of the artistic community of Paris (both in [[Montmartre]] and [[Montparnasse]]).  His friends and collaborators in that period included [[Pablo Picasso]], [[Henri Rousseau]], [[Gertrude Stein]], [[Max Jacob]], [[André Salmon]], [[André Breton]], [[André Derain]], [[Faik Konitza]], [[Blaise Cendrars]], [[Giuseppe Ungaretti]], [[Pierre Reverdy]], [[Alexandra Exter]], [[Jean Cocteau]], [[Erik Satie]], [[Ossip Zadkine]], [[Marc Chagall]], [[Marcel Duchamp]] and [[Jean Metzinger]].  He became romantically involved with [[Marie Laurencin]], who is often identified as his muse. While there, he dabbled in [[anarchism]] and spoke out as a [[Dreyfus Affair|Dreyfusard]] in defense of Dreyfus's innocence.<ref name="Schumaher">[https://books.google.com/books?isbn=1349173282 Claude Schumacher, ''Alfred Jarry and Guillaume Apollinaire''], Modern Dramatists, Macmillan International Higher Education, 1984, pp. 4, 14, 23, 148, 168, {{ISBN|1349173282}}</ref>

Metzinger painted the first Cubist portrait of Apollinaire. In his ''Vie anecdotique'' (16 October 1911), the poet proudly writes: "I am honoured to be the first model of a Cubist painter, Jean Metzinger, for a portrait exhibited in 1910 at the Salon des Indépendants." It was not only the first Cubist portrait, according to Apollinaire, but it was also the first great portrait of the poet exhibited in public, prior to others by [[Louis Marcoussis]], [[Amedeo Modigliani]], [[Mikhail Larionov]] and Picasso.<ref>Jean Metzinger, 1910, [http://www.christies.com/lotfinder/paintings/jean-metzinger-portrait-de-guillaume-apollin-4911615-details.aspx?from=searchresults&intObjectID=4911615&sid=bf281115-cf70-463b-ad5c-c027467afb4c Portrait of Guillaume Apollinaire], Christie's Paris, 2007.</ref>

[[File:Mona Lisa Found, La Joconde est Retrouvée, Le Petit Parisien, Numéro 13559, 13 December 1913.jpg|thumb|"La Joconde est Retrouvée" (The Mona Lisa is Found), ''Le Petit Parisien'', No. 13559, 13 December 1913]]
In 1911 Apollinaire joined the Puteaux Group, a branch of the Cubist movement soon to be known as the [[Section d'Or]].  He delivered the opening address of the 1912 Salon de la Section d'Or — the most important pre-World War I Cubist exhibition.<ref name="La Section d'Or">[http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_s8JyxbYrSG0/TJZ4b_6VYNI/AAAAAAAABfo/5RCFXVta2yk/s1600/La+Section+d%27Or+numéro+spécial+9+octobre+1912+couv.jpg La Section d'Or], Numéro spécial, 9 Octobre 1912.</ref><ref name="The History and Chronology of Cubism">[http://www.serdar-hizli-art.com/art_history/abstract_art/history_and_chronology_of_cubism_page_5.htm The History and Chronology of Cubism] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130314010756/http://www.serdar-hizli-art.com/art_history/abstract_art/history_and_chronology_of_cubism_page_5.htm |date=14 March 2013 }}, p. 5.</ref>

On 7 September 1911, police arrested and jailed Apollinaire on suspicion of aiding and abetting the theft of the ''[[Mona Lisa]]'' and a number of Egyptian statuettes from the [[Louvre]],<ref name="starosti1"/><ref>[http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k564088b/f1.image "Un homme de lettres connu est arrêté comme recéleur"], ''Le Petit Parisien'', 9 September 1911 (in French).</ref> but released him a week later. The theft of the statues had been committed in 1907 by a former secretary of Apollinaire, Honoré Joseph Géry Pieret, who had recently returned one of the stolen statues to the French newspaper the ''Paris-Journal''.<ref name=":0">{{Cite book|last=Krauss|first=Rosalind |title=Art since 1900: modernism, antimodernism, postmodernism |date=2016 |publisher=Thames & Hudson |editor=Hal Foster |editor2=Rosalind E. Krauss |editor3=Yve-Alain Bois |editor4=B. H. D. Buchloh |editor5=David Joselit |isbn=978-0-500-23953-7 |edition=3rd |location=London |page=118 |chapter=1911 |oclc=958112079}}</ref> Apollinaire implicated his friend Picasso, who had bought [[Iberians|Iberian]] statues from Pieret, and who was also brought in for questioning in the theft of the ''Mona Lisa'', but he was also exonerated.<ref name="monalisa25">Richard Lacayo, [http://content.time.com/time/arts/article/0,8599,1894006,00.html "Art's Great Whodunit: The Mona Lisa Theft of 1911"], ''Time'', 27 April 2009.</ref><ref name=":0" /> In fact, the theft of the ''Mona Lisa'' was perpetrated by [[Vincenzo Peruggia]], an Italian house painter who acted alone and was only caught two years later when he tried to sell the painting in Florence.