It was via the performing arts that the writer Gertrude Stein first found success, and it is in the performing arts that her influence endures. We have only to look at the creations of the dancer and choreographer Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker, who developed in the 1980s a minimalist style in response to Stein’s work!

The writer Gertrude Stein had many intellectual and artistic friendships. Amongst these was the iconic partnership with Pablo Picasso: together, they invented a new language!

He disrupts the codes of painting, she overturns those of literature. Together, they are the originators of a new language, to which many artists still identify today. The exhibition 'Gertrude Stein and Pablo Picasso: The Invention of Language': it's happening now at the Musée du Luxembourg until January 28th!

Among the famous Americans in Paris, do you know Gertrude Stein? Both an art collector and an artist herself, she was a key figure in the art world at the beginning of the 20th century. In preparation for the autumn exhibition at the Musée du Luxembourg, here's a portrait of her in 5 quotes, by the artist herself!