The book of the famous theater expert B. Singerman presents four portraits of the great artists of our century: Picasso, Modigliani, Soutine and Chagall, owned by the Paris School. Written in a free and strict essayistic manner, in the best traditions of Russian art criticism, they are addressed to a wide reader and specialists - to those who prefer non-trivial approaches to the study of the human image in European art of the 20th century.