The three Stein siblings collected work, often before it became fashionable. Above, Jo Davidson's sculpture of Gertrude Stein. More Photos »
Like the family it chronicles, “The Steins Collect: Matisse, Picasso and the Parisian Avant-Garde,” at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, is fragmented and contentious, with flashes of brilliance. The exhibition, which comes to the Met by way of the Grand Palais in Paris and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, explores the closely intertwined collections of the siblings Leo, Gertrude and Michael Stein (and Michael’s wife, Sarah). It casts these wealthy American expatriates as ahead-of-the-curve art patrons, whose tastes and social networks shaped Modernism as we know it. (They introduced Matisse to Picasso. Enough said.) http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/02/arts/design/the-steins-collect-matisse-and-...By KAREN ROSENBERG
Published: March 1, 2012
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