Among all the exhibitions paying tribute to Picasso in the year of the 50th anniversary of his death, there is one in which he shares the limelight with writer and collector Gertrude Stein (1874-1946). 'The Invention of Language' is the theme of an exhibition that can be visited at the Luxembourg Museum in Paris until Jan. 28 by those looking for a different way of approaching the artist, who spent most of his life in France. An unprecedented approach to the artistic relationship between two people who arrived in Paris at the beginning of the last century.
Picasso came from Spain and Stein, from the United States. "Neither of them mastered the French language and soon developed a great complicity, which began with their fascination for Cézanne," explains Cécile Debray, curator of the exhibition. Around thirty paintings from the Picasso Museum in Paris have been brought together, focusing on the period of 'Les Demoiselles d'Avignon' and Cubism.
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