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Picasso's Portrait of Gertrude Stein

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mmw

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Apr 24, 1997, 3:00:00 AM4/24/97
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From: "MATISSE AND PICASSO" by Francois Gilot (Picasso's companion
from 1946 - 1954).

"The sittings started in 1905 and went on for almost a year. He set aside
the canvas for a while, and in the end completed it, in the fall of 1906,
without the model. It was a powerful composition, all in earthy tones.
The forms were sculptural, sturdy, and simplified, quite architectonic in
the ancient Iberian mode yet the treatment of the hands - the foreshorten
ing of one hand and the sensitive modeling of the other - bespoke a
skill inherited from the Renaissance. All in all, it was a striking piece
indeed. At first Gertrude liked it as a painting, but she did not think
it resembled her. Picasso reassured her that even if it didn't...
she in time wold come to look like it. Whether or not she was
convinced, she declared herself satisfied."

Marilyn

Robert J. Fusillo

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Apr 25, 1997, 3:00:00 AM4/25/97
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mmw (m...@islandnet.com) wrote:
: From: "MATISSE AND PICASSO" by Francois Gilot (Picasso's companion
: from 1946 - 1954).

: Marilyn

As a sidelight: Stein wrote a poem related to the incident.
Called " A Completed Portrait of Picasso.' She recorded it and it
still floats about.
rjf


mdeli

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Apr 26, 1997, 3:00:00 AM4/26/97
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On 25 Apr 1997 16:23:23 GMT, rfus...@havoc.gtf.gatech.edu (Robert J.
Fusillo) wrote:

Stein also wrote a biography of Picasso. So what?
Judge the painting not the bullshit.

Stein is a has been and a pretentious phoney who couldn't write.
Nobody except crank scholars read her crap anymore although she still
is fairly handy for artzy name-droppers.

This doesn't make the Portrait any better or worse.

The fact is that if any of Picasso's portraits were signed Jo Schmo
they wouldn't get a descent price at a minor auction.

Mani DeLi

...if it needs a long sermon to proclaim its art its probably
bullshit.

mmw

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Apr 26, 1997, 3:00:00 AM4/26/97
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mdeli wrote:

>
> Stein also wrote a biography of Picasso. So what?
> Judge the painting not the bullshit.

>
> Stein is a has been and a pretentious phoney who couldn't write.
> Nobody except crank scholars read her crap anymore although she still
> is fairly handy for artzy name-droppers.

"Stein is a has been" is a confusion of tense and mortality.
You reject abstraction in
literature as well as in painting
in your usual inarticulate, illiterate manner.

Marilyn

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