Gertrude and Leo ran a salon on the rue de Fleurus, which some have described as the first museum of modern art. When Stein met Picasso, she thought the 24-year-old Spaniard beautiful.

The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art's exhibition "The Steins Collect: Matisse, Picasso, and the Parisian Avant-Garde" will include Pablo Picasso's 1906 portrait of Gertrude Stein, perhaps the ...

The Steins, Leo, Gertrude and Michael, in Paris, 1907, didn’t always agree. The Metropolitian Museum of Art, New York, Gift of Edward Burns, 2011 Man Ray’s 1922 photograph evokes the domestic ...

"Gertrude Stein and Pablo Picasso: The Invention of Language," Musée du Luxembourg, 19 Rue de Vaugirard, Paris 6 th. Daily 10:30 am to 7 pm, 10 pm Mondays. Admission €10 to €14. Until January 28.

Jewish art collector and writer Gertrude Stein was born 150 years ago. She was a lesbian icon, hosted Picasso and translated antisemitic speeches.

The exhibit includes a copy of that 1905–06 painting, in which Picasso captured Stein with stern intensity (the original hangs in the Metropolitan Museum of Art). Also on exhibit is her "word portrait ...

Gertrude Stein complained in Everybody’s Autobiography (1937) that her fellow Americans paid more attention to her than to her work.This is often the case with writers whose personalities outshine ...