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Gertrude Stein knew Pablo Picasso before either had become quite what history would make of them. They met in Paris in the first years of the twentieth century, Stein collected his work, Picasso painted his famous portrait of her, and the two became central figures in the extraordinary circle of artists and writers forming around the Parisian avant-garde. Picasso is therefore something different from conventional art criticism: Stein writes about an artist she knew personally and watched develop, filtering Picasso and the emergence of modernism through her own unmistakably Stein-like way of seeing.
First published in French in 1938, followed by the English version that year and another printing in 1939, this 1946 edition was substantially expanded with additional illustrations. Bibliographical descriptions record 55 pages and 64 plates, including color, with the added material extending Picasso’s story through work produced in Paris during the war.
A terrific intersection of modern literature and modern art—Gertrude Stein writing about Picasso from a vantage point almost nobody else could have had.
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