In that year, Dalí and Gala also attended a masquerade party in New York, hosted for them by heiress Caresse Crosby.

Harry Crosby and his wife Caresse would establish the Black Sun Press in Paris in 1927, publishing works by such future luminaries as D. H. Lawrence, Archibald MacLeish, James Joyce, Kay Boyle, Hart Crane, Ernest Hemingway, John Dos Passos, William Faulkner, Dorothy Parker and others.

Embracing the open sexuality offered by Crosby and his wife Caresse, Henri Cartier-Bresson fell into an intense sexual relationship with her that lasted until 1931.

After Harry died in a suicide pact with one of his many lovers, Caresse Crosby continued publishing into the 1940s.

On December 9 Josephine, who instead of returning to Boston had stayed with one of her bridesmaids in New York, sent a 36-line poem to Harry Crosby, who was staying with Caresse at the Savoy-Plaza Hotel.

Caresse published a boxed set of Harry's work titled Collected poems of Harry Crosby containing Chariot of the Sun with D. H. Lawrence's intro, Transit of Venus with T. S. Eliot's intro, Sleeping Together with Stuart Gilbert's intro and Torchbearer in 1931.

A Bibliography of the Black Sun Press ... With an introduction by Caresse Crosby.

* Caresse Crosby Papers at Southern Illinois University Carbondale Special Collections Research Center

The book contains first-hand observations of James Joyce, D. H. Lawrence, Ernest Hemingway, Ezra Pound, T. S. Eliot, Valery Larbaud, Thornton Wilder, André Gide, Leon-Paul Fargue, George Antheil, Robert McAlmon, Gertrude Stein, Stephen Benet, Aleister Crowley, Harry Crosby, Caresse Crosby, John Quinn, Berenice Abbott, Man Ray, and many others.

Caresse Crosby ( April 20, 1891 – January 26, 1970 ), born Mary Phelps Jacob ( nicknamed " Polly " by her parents ), was an American patron of the arts, poet, publisher, and peace activist.

Embracing the open sexuality offered by Crosby and his wife Caresse, Cartier-Bresson fell into an intense sexual relationship with her.

In 1931, two years after Harry Crosby's suicide, the end of his affair with Caresse Crosby left Cartier-Bresson broken-hearted and he escaped to Côte d ' Ivoire within French colonial Africa.

Cover of Tales of Shem and Shaun by James Joyce published by Caresse Crosby and the Black Sun Press

After Harry died in a suicide pact with one of his many lovers, Caresse Crosby continued publishing until 1936, when she left Europe for the United States.

But two days later she had delivered a 36-line poem to Crosby who was staying with Caresse at the Savoy-Plaza Hotel.

He thought then of Caresse Crosby.

In her journal, Nin wrote, " Harvey Breit, Robert Duncan, George Barker, Caresse Crosby, all of us concentrating our skills in a tour de force, supplying the old man with such an abundance of perverse felicities, that now he begged for more.

By 1941, having divorced Bert, Caresse moved to live in Washington D. C. full-time where she owned a home at 2008 Q Street NW from 1937 to 1950, and she opened the Caresse Crosby Modern Art Gallery, what was then the city's only modern art gallery, at 1606 Twentieth Street, near Dupont Circle.

* " Caresse Crosby, Infield.

* Caresse Crosby Papers at Southern Illinois University Carbondale Special Collections Research Center

* Caresse Crosby from " Always Yes, Caresse ," 1962 ( Video )

Harry chose the titles and Caresse edited the books.

The first of these, Tales Told of Shem and Shaun was published by Harry and Caresse Crosby's publishing house Black Sun Press.

" Harry and Caresse published the Paris edition of Hemingway's The Torrents of Spring.

On the evening of December 7, Crosby's friend Hart Crane threw a party to celebrate his completion after seven years of his poem, The Bridge, which was to be published by the Black Sun Press, and to bid Harry and Caresse bon voyage, since they were due to sail back to France the next week.

In 1931, Caresse also published Torchbearer, a collection of his poetry with an afterward by Ezra Pound, and Aphrodite in Flight, a seventy-five paragraph-long prose-poem and how-to manual for lovers that compared making love to a woman to flying planes.

Caresse and Harry published her first book, Crosses of Gold, in late 1924.

When he returned to the U. S. in 1940, he confessed to Caresse his lack of success in getting his work published.

In 1953, Caresse wrote and published her autobiography, The Passionate Years.

Cover of Tales of Shem and Shaun by James Joyce published by Caresse Crosby and Harry Crosby, owners and publishers of the Black Sun Press.

One of their first two books was a volume of poetry by Caresse, Crosses of Gold, printed by Léon Pichon and published in 1925.

That evening Crosby's friend Hart Crane threw a party to celebrate his completion after seven years of his poem, The Bridge, which was to be published by the Black Sun Press, and to bid Harry and Caresse bon voyage, since they were due to sail back to France the next week.

Caresse published two volumes of Harry Crosby's poetry, Chariot of the Sun and Transit of Venus.

A near-fine copy of the first English-language edition of Max Ernst's and Paul Eluard's book, Misfortunes of the Immortals, which Caresse published in 1943, was offered for sale in 2010 by Derringer Books for £ ( about € or $).

The Mauretania before 1923On the evening of the play, December 10, 1929, Caresse, Harry's mother Henrietta Grew, and Hart Crane met for dinner before the play, but Harry was a no-show.

Harry's wedding ring was found crushed on the floor, not on his finger, where he always promised Caresse it would remain.

In her autobiography, Caresse minimized Harry's affair with Josephine, eliminating a number of references to her.

In 1928, Harry and Caresse changed the name of the press to the Black Sun Press in keeping with Harry's fascination with the symbolism of the sun.

Its frontleaf bore their names in the form of a gold cross with the ' r ' in Caresse intersecting the first ' r ' in Harry's name.

In 1928, Harry and Caresse changed the name of the press to the Black Sun Press in keeping with Harry's fascination with the symbolism of the sun.

Today, Miró's paintings sell for between US $ 250, 000 and US $ 26 million ; US $ 17 million at a U. S. auction for the La Caresse des étoiles ( 1938 ) on May 6, 2008, at the time the highest amount paid for one of his works.

In 1927 Polly took the name Caresse, and she and Harry founded the Black Sun Press.

At the end of 1924, Harry persuaded Polly to formally change her first name to Caresse, as he felt Polly was too prim and proper for his wife.

They briefly considered Clytoris before deciding on Caresse.

In 1923, shortly after their arrival in Paris, Caresse introduced Harry to her friend Constance Coolidge, also a Boston Brahmin, an American expatriate and French countess, with whom he immediately began an open sexual relationship.

In Morocco during one of their trips to North Africa, Harry and Caresse took a 13-year-old dancing girl named Zora to bed with them.

One year, Caresse showed up topless riding a baby elephant and wearing a turquoise wig.

Unlike his wife Caresse, Josephine was quarrelsome and prone to fits of jealousy.

The party went on until nearly dawn, and Harry and Caresse made plans to see Crane again on December 10 to see the popular Broadway play Berkeley Square before they left for Europe.

It was unlike him to worry Caresse needlessly.

The steamship tickets he had bought that morning for the return to Europe with Caresse were in his pocket.