The Steins Collect, an exhibition at SFMOMA

The girl with green eyes

Fans of Creative juicings will already know that we are huge fans of Matisse, Cézanne, and Picasso. It is with great excitement therefore, that we can exclusively reveal that there is an exhibition encompassing all our favorite artists coming to  San Francisco’s Museum of Modern Art.

The exhibition runs  from May 21 to September 06, 2011 and focuses on the collection  Gertrude Stein and her family made in Paris during the early years of the 20th century.

As regular readers of Creative juicings will know Ms Stein lived in an apartment at 27 Rue de Fleurus, Paris France from 1904 to 1913. Her collection included Gauguin’s sunflowers and three of his Tahitian paintings, a number of Cézanne’s including ‘the bathers’, Delacroix’s Perseus & Andromeda, Matisse’s Woman with a hat, various Picasso’s including a portrait of Ms Stein that now hangs in the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. Other artists she collected include: Toulouse Lautrec, Henri Manguin, Pierre Bonnard and Honoré Daumier.

Woman with hat

Gertrude Stein also hosted saturday evening art soirées in her apartment where such notables as Henri Rousseau, Georges Braque, Andre Derain, Max Jacob, Guillaume Apollinaire and Ernest Hemingway could be found.

The San Francisco exhibition will  certainly include Matisse’s legendary Woman with a hat, the painting that kick started the Fauvist movement, as well as the the more pleasing, if less iconoclastic The girl with green eyes. A number of Picasso’s will also be on display, including his famous portrait of Stein. What is not clear at this stage is how many of the more novel works, such as the Delacroix will be shown.

http://www.sfmoma.org/exhibitions/410