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

The closer I’ve looked at Stein and tried to capture her essence, the more she’s come to resemble one of her friend Picasso’s Cubist portraits: distorted, brightly coloured, complex and human.

ertrude Stein is, famously, one of those authors whose name is better known than her works. This was so during her lifetime, as the biographer Francesca Wade demonstrates in her readable and ...

“Gertrude Stein Has Arrived”, read the tickertape snaking around the New York Times building, flashing breaking news to all who passed through Times Square. Over seven months, starting in October 1934 ...

In her roguishly titled memoir, The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas, published in 1933, Stein quoted Picasso’s responding to complaints that the painting did not resemble her with the quip ...

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 ...

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 ...

Without Gertrude and her brother Leo’s patronage, for instance, it’s unlikely we’d know the work of Matisse and Picasso: the Steins helped them both early in their careers. She was a mentor to the ...

American novel as great titles renewed the art of storytelling and had the power to influence upcoming writers for decades to come ...

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.

Black Man. Revolutionary. James Baldwin is all of this and more. Some fall in love with his characters, and others find ...

After Toklas’s death in 1967, the last of their collection—38 paintings by Picasso and nine by Gris—were sold by Stein’s heirs in 1968 for about $6.8 million.