«Matisse, Cézanne, Picasso… The Stein family»
Grand Palais
From October 5th 2011 to January 16th 2012 – Extended until the 22nd of January
Do you remember the character Gertrude Stein in “Midnight in Paris”? In the movie of Woody Allen, this influential woman, artists’ friend, used to see them in her apartment to advice them – sometimes reading a manuscript for Hemingway, sometimes giving her opinion on a painting of Picasso. We feel how Gertrude Stein’s opinion was important for the emerging artists who will become the great painters Matisse, Picasso, Cézanne, Renoir, Bonnard, Vallotton and Picabia.
Until the 16th of January 2012, the Grand Palais exhibits the Stein Family collection, made up of Gertrude, but also Léo and the couple Michael and Sarah. This nonstandard and wealthy American family established in Paris (rue Madame and rue Fleurus on the left bank) contributed to set a new standard as regards artistic taste in modern art. They welcomed many artists settled in Paris and built an avant-garde collection. Very avant-garde…. Léo Stein bought the Fauve painting “Femme au chapeau” of Matisse just after it created a scandal during the autumn exhibition of 1905.
Each member of the family is described through the exhibition. We discover the history and amazing collection of this precursor family which felt and supported the great modern painting masters before they moment of glory.
«Matisse, Cézanne, Picasso… The Stein family»
Until January 16th 2012
Grand Palais
Avenue Winston Churchill
75008 Paris
Website of the exhibition “Matisse, Cézanne, Picasso… The Stein family”
- Henri Matisse. Femme au chapeau, 1905. Oil on canvas, 80.65 x 59.69 cm. San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, don d’Elise S. Haas, San Francisco, USA © Succession H. Matisse. Photo : Moma, San Francisco, 2011
- Pablo Picasso. Nu à la serviette, 1907. Oil on canvas, 118×89 cm. Private collection © Succession Picasso 2011
- Léo, Gertrude et Allan, Sarah et Michael Stein ; center : Theresa Ehrman, their au pair girl, at 27 rue de Fleurus, 1906 © New Haven, Yale Collection of American Literature, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University