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THE STEINS COLLECT @ the Met

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Pablo Picasso, Pomme, 1918
(Gertrude's Apple is a similar watercolor)
The incredible exhibit at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, THE STEINS COLLECT: Matisse, Picasso and the Parisian Avant-Garde, is closing today and I am going back to see it before it does. I am not going back to see the whole exhibit either. I already spent four delicious hours on a beautiful spring day, devouring each and every one of the art works.  No, this time I am going back to see the Apple Picasso sent to Gertrude and Alice as a Christmas present in 1914 when she was upset over loosing Three Apples by Cezanne to her brother Leo when they separated their collection, and the drawing of Cocks, 1905, which Picasso gave to a friend of Gertrude Stein's in exchange for a Chinese gown for his girlfriend, Fernande.
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