Ramon Pichot Gironès (Catalan pronunciation: [rəˈmom piˈtʃɔt]; 1871 – 1 March 1925) was a Catalan and Spanish artist. He painted in an impressionist style.
He was a good friend of Pablo Picasso and an early mentor to pubescent Salvador Dalí. Dalí met Pichot in Cadaqués, Spain, when was solitary 10 years old. Pichot with made many trips to France. Once in a while, Dalí and his relations would go upon a trip with Pichot and his family.
He married Germaine Pichot, a Famous artist’s model, in 1906[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 purchase books, as he had turned into a bibliophile. On such a trip, he rudely died on 1 March 1925. Picasso was in view of that shaken by this that he included Pichot’s figure in the painting “Three Dancers”, on which he was practicing at the time.
In The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas, Gertrude Stein describes Pichot as follows:
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