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Picasso, Matisse, Cézanne, Manet, Renoir, Gauguin, Bonnard, Picabia, Gris, Masson, Manguin, Valloton, Rose, Atlan, Tchelitchev, Laurencin
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This is the official app of the Grand Palais, Paris exhibition : « Matisse, Cézanne, Picasso… The Stein adventure » organized by the Rmn-Grand Palais, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York.
The Steins, an American family, moved to Paris in the early 20th century: Gertrude, an avant-garde writer, set up house with her brother Leo, in the rue de Fleurus; her elder brother Michael took a flat with his wife Sarah in the rue Madame. They were the first people to buy Matisses and Picassos and they also received the entire avant-garde into their homes and thus built up one of the most astonishing collections of modern art. The exhibition looks at the history of this out-of-the-ordinary family. It shows how important its patronage was for the artists and how it helped establish a new standard of taste in modern art, through Leo’s view of the sources of modernity and his exchanges with the intellectuals of the time; Gertrude’s friendship with Picasso; Sarah’s relations with Matisse; and the projects that Gertrude developed with artists in the 20s and 30s. It is a major exhibition bringing together an outstanding ensemble of works from the Steins’ various collections: Renoir, Cézanne, Picasso, Matisse, Manguin, Bonnard, Vallotton, Laurencin, Gris, Masson, Picabia…. The eight sections shed light on all the members of the family: Leo, Sarah and Michael, and Gertrude.
© 2011, RMN-Grand palais
