Gertrude Stein with some of the pieces in her ... was usually given the task of hanging pictures. Pablo Picasso started to work on a portrait of Stein shortly after their first meeting in 1905.

Gertrude Stein has since become legend. Not only did she define the rose, but she influenced such men as Picasso, Matisse, Hemingway. What manner of woman ignored the provincialism of the 1890's ...

In 1907, when she was 29, she travelled to Paris and met Gertrude Stein the day ... and appears in Pablo Picasso’s famous portrait of Stein. The women moved in together and presided over one ...