FRENCH LANGUAGE
A wealthy American family, the Steins settled in Paris at the beginning of the 20th century .century. Very quickly, Gertrude and her brothers became interested in the artistic excitement that reigned there and welcomed avant-garde artists into their home. Gertrude notably became friends with Picasso, "a long friendship with its incidents, its agitations, and its complications", and affirmed that the "frank affection and complete confidence" that she had in the artist had no effect. never faltered. If Gertrude participated in the invention of modern art, she also participated in the development of contemporary literature, particularly American. The woman who was described as a "Cubist of letters" was in fact one of the most inventive and ambitious writers of her generation. His use of repetition, seriality and the circle motif has inspired a number of artists, particularly conceptual ones (Jasper Jones, John Cage, Merce Cunningham, Robert Rauschenberg).
Beaux Arts Éditions looks back on this knowledgeable collector and patron, who forever marked the Parisian avant-garde, on her friendship with the Cubist painters, at the forefront of whom is Picasso, the similarities of their approaches (one literary, the other pictorial) and shows how Gertrude Stein became a tutelary figure for many modern and contemporary artists.
Exhibition at the Luxembourg Museum, from September 13, 2023 to January 28, 2024
French language
68 pages - September 2023
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