Art Meets Artist

As Picasso painted the portrait of Gertrude Stein in a studio in Paris littered with objects, Gertrude insisted that the Cone sisters buy the sketches by Picasso that littered the floor for two dollars a piece.  Perhaps Picasso thought he was taking advantage of the sisters… perhaps Gertrude Stein thought she was helping out the impoverished artist.  

If that is what they all thought, then the joke was on them.  The collection of the Cone sisters became the backbone of the Baltimore Museum of Art.  And the Cone sisters themselves? …those gullible Americans… well… they became famous as their collection toured the world.  (more…)

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