Gertrude stein

Originally published in the collection Geography and Plays (1922), “Miss Furr and Miss Skeene” has received critical attention for two reasons. First, much has been made of Gertrude Stein’s experim…

Gertrude Stein sure had a way with words. Many were beautiful and wise; just as many delightfully absurd. Here's a selection of slightly absurd quotes by Gertrude Stein.

For Stein, this painting was proof of her irrevocable link to Picasso, whom she would come to regard as the greatest artist of her time. She saw the painting as a collaboration between two emerging giants: a twenty-four-year-old Spanish painter and a thirty-two-year-old American writer, two expatriates in Paris, each as yet unrecognized but both destined for greatness. They met after Stein had acquired several of his pictures. Although Picasso usually worked quickly, there were many sittings…

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The 40-year relationship that unfolded between Toklas and Stein became the bedrock of Paris’s artistic avant-garde.

We discover more about one of the most fascinating relationships in history the friendship between Pablo Picasso and Gertrude Stein.

Gertrude Stein posing for Jo Davidson

First published in 1939, this is the fourth printing of Camelot’s paperback edition from April 1972. Illustrated by Clement Hurd.