Pablo Picasso

GS and Leo Stein , two years her elder, shared an interest in books and learning, though they were competitive, and he repeatedly disagreed with her accounts of her life. When, for instance, she reported...

In Inverness the English Don and Irish Ann would always be seen as having come from somewhere else, but from AS 's several accounts of her father Don Smith seems to have been a marvellous...

When GS met Pablo Picasso at Sagot's Gallery , he asked her to sit for a portrait. The result, which Picasso gave to Stein, became one of the icons of modernism.

A banquet in Paris for the painter Hénri Rousseau (le douanier) was attended by a colourful convoy including Leo and Gertrude Stein , Alice Toklas , Max Jacob , Guillaume Apollinaire , Marie Laurencin and Pablo Picasso .

Her tour of the city with Chadbourne included the studios of Matisse and Picasso (in Montmartre), and Gertrude 's and Leo Stein 's collection of contemporary paintings.

Picasso and his lover Fernande Bellevalleé (later Olivier) were hosting a small dinner to hear Rousseau play the violin. The small dinner swelled in size as word-of-mouth circulation made its existence known. But the caterer...

On their return to Paris they reconnected with Picasso and with Bernard Faÿ , the French academic and intellectual whose right-wing connections had put him in charge of the Bibliothèque Nationale during the German occupation...

The Princesse hosted a salon at 57 Avenue Henri-Martin attended by Anna de Noailles , Cocteau , Paul Valéry , and Proust , who incorporated some of his perceptions of the gatherings into A la...

GS 's studies in psychology, philosophy, and medicine fiction left a deep imprint on her way of thinking and in her work. At Radcliffe College she learned from William James his philosophy of Pragmatism: I...

PL loved cricket, photography, and jazz. His tastes in jazz, as in literature and art, were explicitly anti-modernist (he linked together, as merely diverting, Parker , Pound or Picasso), but perhaps more flexible and...

When the Museum of Modern Art in New York showed an important exhibition of Picasso 's work in late spring to early autumn 1996 (in the run-up to the release of the controversial film Surviving...

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

They became patrons and they became salonnières. They were presumed to be eccentric millionaires, though they lived meagrely so that they could buy art. Leo dominated the early days of the salon with his efforts...

Fry travelled to Paris with Clive Bell, Desmond MacCarthy , and Lady Ottoline Morrell to select the paintings. On 6 November 1910, RF launched the Manet and the Post-Impressionists exhibition at the Grafton Gallery, which...

Merchant-Ivory 's film Surviving Picasso premiered in New York for the thirty-fifth anniversary of the partnership; it, and especially RPJ 's script, were again controversial.