Picasso and Gertrude Stein by Vincent Giroud (PDF)

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The Portrait of Gertrude Stein was the first major work by Pablo Picasso to enter The Metropolitan Museum of Art, bequeathed by Stein herself in 1946. A century after it was painted, this portrait remains one of the most powerful images of early-20th-century modernism.What was to be a lifelong friendship was but a few months old in the spring of 1906, when Picasso began his portrait of Stein. He was 24 years old at the time and she was 32, and both of their careers were at a critical stage. This engaging book recounts the extraordinary circumstances that led to Stein’s first posing session and argues that the portrait played a key role not only in Picasso’s work as a painter but also in his subject’s creative life, as he became, in turn, the subject of several of Stein’s literary portraits.Published in association with The Metropolitan Museum of Art

User’s Reviews

Editorial Reviews: About the Author Vincent Giroud is Professor at the Bard Graduate Center for the Studies of Decorative Art, Design, and Culture, New York.

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⭐This little gem of a book (only 51 pages) is loaded with information and images from Picasso’s time in Paris with Gertrude Stein. I was a novice on the subject and was looking for information for a research paper when I found this book through my University library. This book turned out to be my main source of information and I loved it so much that I bought it! Easy to read and with great pictures of Picasso’s art, photographs of Gertrude and her family and so many stories! If you are a fan of Picasso or Gertrude Stein or if you don’t know anything at all about either of them, this is a great place to start. You will definitely be a fan of both after you read this book! (After reading this book, I had to know more about Gertrude so I bought and read “The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas”. That book was also great!) I highly recommend this book. Buy it. You will be glad you did!

⭐Excellent book! Great photos. I discovered things about both Picasso and Gertrude Stein that I was unaware of prior to reading this book.

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