Henri Matisse

This publication was the result of a contract between Bennett Cerf of Random House and GS for a future, second autobiography. Cerf promised to publish all of GS 's works at the rate of one...

From the time when the Atlantic Monthly published the first serial instalments of this book, English readers as well as American were enthusiastic, and enthusiasm grew with its appearance as a volume. GS

GS published a novel entitled MatissePicasso and Gertrude Stein, which also included two shorter pieces: A Long Gay Book and Many Many Women.

The salon's emergence coincided with Leo Stein 's interest in collecting modern art. In 1904 Leo bought his first Cézanne painting at Vollard's Gallery . Then, in 1905, the Steins went to the Salon d'Automne...

With this purchase Gertrude and Leo embarked on a course that made them not only patrons but also close friends of Matisse and the circle of young, emerging artists congregated in Paris: painters Georges Braque