ID: 700000309 Page link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/cona/700000309	Record Type: Movable Work
Images: 1

Gertrude Stein (oil painting (visual work); Pablo Picasso (Spanish, 1881-1973); 1905-1906; Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York City, New York state, U...; 47.106)

Note: The famous writer and expatriate Gertrude Stein was among the first Americans to respond enthusiastically to European avant-garde art. She held weekly salons in her Paris apartment populated by European and American artists and writers. For Picasso, Stein’s early patronage and friendship was critical to his success. He painted this portrait of her between 1905 and 1906 at the end of his so-called "Rose Period." He reduces her body to simple masses--a foreshadowing of his adoption of Cubism--and portrays her face like a mask with heavy lidded eyes, reflecting his recent encounter with Iberian sculpture.

Titles:

Gertrude Stein (preferred,C,U,D,RP,English-P,U,U)

Catalog Level: item

Work Types:

oil painting (visual work) [300033799] (preferred)

..... (Objects Facet, Visual and Verbal Communication (hierarchy name), Visual Works (hierarchy name), visual works (works), <visual works by material or technique>, paintings (visual works), <paintings by material or technique>)

portrait [300015637]

..... (Objects Facet, Visual and Verbal Communication (hierarchy name), Visual Works (hierarchy name), visual works (works), <visual works by subject type>)

Classifications:

paintings (preferred)

European art

Creation Date: 1905-1906

Creator Display:

Pablo Picasso (Spanish, 1881-1973) [preferred,VP]

painter Picasso, Pablo (Spanish painter, sculptor, and printmaker, 1881-1973) [500009666]

Locations:

Current: Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York City, New York state, United States) [500125157] Corporate Bodies (Corp. Body)

Repository Numbers: 47.106

Credit Line: Bequest of Gertrude Stein, 1946

Address Note: On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in Gallery 911

Display Materials: oil on canvas

	oil paint (paint) [300015050]
	.......(Materials Facet, Materials (hierarchy name), materials (substances), <materials by function>, coating (material), <coating by form>, paint (coating), <paint by composition or origin>)

	canvas (textile material) [300014078]
	.......(Materials Facet, Materials (hierarchy name), materials (substances), <materials by form>, <materials by physical form>, <fiber and fiber by product>, <fiber by product>, textile materials, <textile materials by process or technique>)

Dimensions: 100 x 81.3cm (39 3/8 x 32in.)

Style/Period/Group/Movement:

	Modern (style or period) [300264736] (preferred,N/A)
	.....(Styles and Periods Facet, Styles and Periods (hierarchy name), <styles| periods| and cultures by general era>)

General Subject:

portraits (preferred)

Specific Subjects:

	Gertrude Stein (American writer, collector, and patron, 1874-1946) [500273319]
	.....(Non-Artists) (ULAN)

	single-sitter portrait [300404138]
	.....(Objects Facet, Visual and Verbal Communication (hierarchy name), Visual Works (hierarchy name), visual works (works), <visual works by subject type>, portraits) (AAT)

Copyright: © 2011 Estate of Pablo Picasso / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

Provenance: Gertrude Stein, Paris (gift of the artist, autumn 1906, until d. 1946; her bequest to MMA, 1946)

List/Hierarchical Position:

..... Movable Works

.......... Movable Works by class: drawings, paintings, prints, other two-dimensional media

Sources and Contributors:
Gertrude Stein	........ [VP]
	........ Metropolitan Museum of Art [online] (2001-) accessed 30 April 2012

Subject: ....... [VP]

Note:
English	..... [VP]
	..... Metropolitan Museum of Art [online] (2001-)