And, she never paid for them .” Some of these portraits, as well as childhood photographs, make up the first “story” in “Seeing Gertrude Stein: Five Stories,” which opened this weekend ...

She was a trust fund kid who moved to Paris in 1903 and made some very successful bets early in her career as an art collector and wannabe writer. Gertrude Stein, whose family prospered in the San ...

Artistic tastemaker extraordinaire or charlatan merely posing as a genius writer? For a biographer-detective, there is no more thrilling case ...

Gertrude Stein is part of Andy Warhol's 1980 screenprint series Ten Portraits of Jews of the Twentieth Century, in which the artist depicted 10 people of Jewish faith who he thought to be "geniuses" ...

Gertrude Stein with some of the pieces in her art collection ... Pablo Picasso started to work on a portrait of Stein shortly after their first meeting in 1905. The oil-on-canvas painting ...

Picasso's portrait of Stein was a foretaste of his ... then another corner, and another." "Gertrude Stein Has Arrived": This was the sign that flashed in New York's Times Square greeting the ...

When searching Google for how to start an art collection, a multitude of answers will come up. “The Five Top Tips to Start Collecting Art” or “Millennials and Art Collections: how to start yours” are ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. When Gertrude Stein’s friend and Paris neighbour Pablo Picasso completed her portrait in 1906, she was 32 ...

Edmund Wilson—who was generally sympathetic to her work and compared it to Yeats, Proust, and Eliot—noted in a 1923 Vanity Fair article that her word-portraits of Matisse and Picasso published in ...