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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 Market Recap - by Janet Lehr

  I'M THINKING 1950. What a difference a year makes - Just this morning I thought, 'where' was art in 1950?' We have been intensely involved in the sale of a Jackson Pollock, a very beautiful, lyric, powerful 'drip painting'. I read, "Picasso compared to Pollock seemed like a quiet conformist, a painter out of the past" Iconoclastic? Do we see art at this junction today? Food for future thought...

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  Posted In: History on 2.12.2011