Picasso's Cubism is most likely the first phase of Analytical Cubism, which Kahnweiler mentions as the Hermetic period between 1909 and 1913 (Golding 118). During this time, Gris became familiar with the work of Picasso, who was entering his critical phase to begin work on the first Cubist painting Demoiselles d'Avignon, and followed Picasso's Cubism step by step. It was now assumed that he would follow Picasso and Braque into analytical Cubism, prompted by his study and experience in drawing, but instead he undertook a cooler, purer, more intellectual analysis of the inventive possibilities of Cubist painting (Golding 97). It is not surprising that Juan Gris prefers a more inventive Cubist method when we observe his obsession with patterns, complicated formulas, conception, and construction of ideas that would become detrimental to Synthetic Cubism (Gopnik 81, Green Synthesis 87). It is also not surprising that he, along with many other Cubists of his time, found work and friendship in numerous poets (Golding 13, De Costa