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Portrait of Gertrude Stein (French: Portrait de Gertrude Stein) is an oil-on-canvas painting of the American writer and art collector Gertrude Stein by Pablo Picasso, which was begun in 1905 and finished the following year. The painting is housed in the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York.
- 100 cm × 81.3 cm (39 in × 32.0 in)
- Pablo Picasso
- 1905–06
Pablo Picasso Spanish. 1905–6. Not on view. The famous writer and expatriate Gertrude Stein was among the first Americans to respond enthusiastically to European avant-garde art. She held weekly salons in her Paris apartment populated by European and American artists and writers.
By reworking Gertrude Stein's portrait in a primitivist style, Picasso claimed for himself the power to represent the woman as she really is, not merely as a likeness of her physical appearance. Stein's response to the image supports this point of view.
Portrait of Gertrude Stein, 1905 by Picasso. In the autumn of 1905, on his return to Paris from Gosol, Picasso at last succeeded in completing his adamantine Portrait of Gertrude Stein, which he had begun not long after his first meeting with the American writer.
Retrato de Gertrude Stein. En el lienzo Picasso muestra a la retratada como una figura de tres cuartos ante un fondo oscuro, color pardo, en el que se intuye el respaldo del sofá o sillón en el que Gertrude aparece sentada.
13 de ene. de 2020 · Both portraits of the inimitable Gertrude Stein found their way to the United States, a fitting legacy for a woman born and educated on the East Coast. Painted just months apart and presented to the sitter as gifts, they have not been shown under one roof since 1926.
Gertrude Stein (Allegheny, Estados Unidos; 3 de febrero de 1874 - Neuilly-sur-Seine, Francia; 27 de julio de 1946) fue una novelista, poeta, dramaturga y coleccionista de arte estadounidense. Stein se trasladó a París en 1903 e hizo de Francia su hogar durante el resto de su vida.
