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• The Stein's Collect: Matisse, Picasso and the Parisian Avant-Garde. Metropolitan Museum Feb 23 - June 3, 2012.

  In 1905, Leo Stein saw his first Picasso drawing at a furniture store. He bought 2 large paintings by the artist soon afterward. That Fall, Leo and Gertrude, to become the most famous collecting brother and sister of the 20th century, bought Matisse's Woman with Hat - 1905. The American, Leo Stein, then living in France with his sister Gertrude, wrote a friend of his recent purchases, "My recent accessions are unfortunately by people you never have heard of so there is no use trying to describe them. He had purchased "a work that had made everybody laugh plus 2 pictures by a young Spaniard named Picasso whom I consider a genius of great magnitude."

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  Posted In: Museums, Exhibitions on 3.24.2012

• VERED'S ART MKT RECAP Picasso's Drawings: 1890 - 1921 - Reinventing Tradition.

  Picasso's Drawings, 1890-1921: Reinventing Tradition at The Frick Museum. 1 East 70th Street New York October 4, 2011, through January 8, 2012 www.Frick.org or 212 288 0700. [ co-organized with the National Gallery of Art, Washington DC where it will be exhibited January 29-May 6, 2012 ]

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  Posted In: Museums, Exhibitions, Art Events on 10.10.2011