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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

* Sonnets for Caresse.

* Sonnets for Caresse.

* Sonnets for Caresse.

* Sonnets for Caresse.

Ready for bed, Caresse quickly put on a dress with nothing underneath.

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.

Without a job, he convinced Caresse he just wanted to own a farm and they decided to look for land on the east coast.

Bert was always asking Caresse for money, he crashed her car, ran up the telephone bill, and used all her credit at the local liquor store.

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.

Caresse churned out 200 pages and the collector ’ s agent asked for more.

Although her husband Bert was often drunk and infrequently home, Caresse did not lack for company.

Caresse traveled to Paris for his funeral between appearances at colleges where she talked about her life and the Black Sun Press.

As one of the dozens of creative literary and artistic figures who migrated during the 1920s to Paris, France and congregated in Montparnasse, Cowley returned to live in France for three years, where he worked with Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald, John Dos Passos, Ezra Pound, E. E. Cummings, Gerald and Sara Murphy, Edmund Wilson, Erskine Caldwell, Harry Crosby, Caresse Crosby and others.

Madonna's spokeswoman Caresse Norman reacted a statement: " The music was stolen and was not intended for release for several months.

Caresse spent some of her time while her husband, Bert Young, fell into a drunken stupor every night churning out another 200 pages of pornography.

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.

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.

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 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.

At her husband's urging, Polly took the name Caresse in 1924.

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

Caresse rowed home alone, and in her swim suit her generously endowed chest drew whistles, jeers and waves from workmen.

Caresse wore a sheer chemise to her waist, a huge turquoise wig on her head, and nothing else.

Caresse took on lovers of her own, including Ortiz Manolo, Lord Lymington, Jacques Porel, Cord Meier, and in May, 1928, the Count Armand de la Rochefoucauld.

But behind closed doors, Harry applied a double standard, quarreling violently with Caresse about her affairs.

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

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

While taking her daughter Polly to Hollywood where she aspired to become an actress, Caresse met Selbert " Bert " Saffold Young, an unemployed aspiring actor and former football player 18 years her junior.

Polly or Caresse grew up amid the social constraints imposed by her upper-class family in New York.

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.

Caresse unfortunately picked the former which was less well received than the other volume.

Caresse extended an invitation to Salvador Dalí and his wife, who were long-term guests, during which he wrote much of his autobiography.

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.

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 $).