Mallen, E. (2025) Pablo Picasso’s 1906-1907 Transformation: from the “Primitive” to the “Rational”. Advances in Historical ...

The creator at the forefront of modern art, she declared, “is an outlaw until he is a classic”. In the last decade of her life, Stein set her sights on her legacy.

Gertrude Stein’s quest for fame The modernist phenomenon believed bad attention was better than none at all.

Detail of Pablo Picasso’s portrait of Gertrude Stein, from 1905–06. Image: Peter Barritt / Alamy “Gertrude Stein Has Arrived”, read the tickertape snaking around the New York Times building, flashing ...

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 ...

Francesca Wade’s Gertrude Stein: An Afterlife, exhaustively researched and beautifully written, is a masterpiece of biography ...

Gertrude Stein, as Francesca Wade puts it in this masterpiece of biography, was a character of “bewildering contradictions”. Depending on who you spoke to, she was either a genius or a charlatan. A ...

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She became embroiled with Stein’s relatives in a court battle over the rights to 28 Picasso paintings in the collection that Stein had left her in trust.

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Below are 75 James Baldwin quotes pulled from essays, interviews, speeches, letters and novels by the famous writer. Curated ...