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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" ...
Artistic tastemaker extraordinaire or charlatan merely posing as a genius writer? For a biographer-detective, there is no more thrilling case ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Gertrude Stein scholar and distant cousin Phoebe Stein ... "One of her earliest genres was the word portrait. She was stimulated by the artists around her, especially the artists whose works were ...
After Leo left Paris in 1913, Gertrude began to hold court at these salons: crowds of young, expatriate writers came to hear her talk, show her their manuscripts and see her famous home. Stein always ...