(An unrelated exhibition, “Seeing Gertrude Stein: Five Stories ... connoisseur and collector of 20th-century painting in the world.” Picasso recognized that the Steins could be useful ...

In the autumn of 1907, Matisse and Picasso had agreed to swap paintings. As Gertrude Stein tells it, each painter selected what he considered the worst example of the other’s new work ...

Gertrude Stein has since become legend. Not only did she define the rose, but she influenced such men as Picasso ... a former art dealer. "She never mentioned her college days to me." ...