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Artistic tastemaker extraordinaire or charlatan merely posing as a genius writer? For a biographer-detective, there is no more thrilling case ...
To most people, the salient qualities of Gertrude Stein are unreadability combined with monumental self-belief. This is the ...
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 poses in front of the portrait of her painted by Picasso in 1906, at her Parisian apartment Credit: AFP via Getty Images But then came the unlikely Broadway success of Stein’s ...
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 ...
The groundbreaking exhibition at Chicago's Wrightwood 659 confronts erasure with a glorious celebration of the vital legacy ...
The American Hemingway and Spanish Miró were nothing alike physically or artistically, but after a random introduction, they became best friends in Paris ...
The New Mexico Museum of Art highlights the peripatetic 20th-century painter in a show that features both his powerful ...
Still others examine how nude portraits have shifted with changing understandings of sexuality and how same-sex desire converged with colonialism and resistance. Gertrude Stein, Félix Vallotton ...
At first the portrait was to include a regular Freud model ... Convinced of her own brilliance, Gertrude Stein wished to be ‘as popular as Gilbert and Sullivan’ and laboured tirelessly to ensure that ...