Gertrude Stein with some of the pieces in her art ... which is now part of the permanent collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Picasso was more interested in capturing Stein’s ...

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." ...

that Picasso made for Gertrude by way of an apology. Using the objects, she takes listeners inside Stein’s artistic and literary world; her queer life with Alice; and her object-obsessed poetry.

One reason for its popularity was the inclusion of stories of her 39-year relationship with the great modernist writer Gertrude ... in Pablo Picasso’s famous portrait of Stein.