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!

A monument of stone, glass and metal, the Grand Palais blends into the urban landscape. However, on closer inspection, it is in fact bursting with colour, and one of the challenges of the restoration work currently underway is to restore all its chromatic ranges.

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!