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!

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!

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!

When Kippenberger saw David Douglas Duncan’s photographs of Pablo Picasso in 1988, he was particularly struck by one of them...

Pablo Picasso’s real rise to fame came after World War II.

Jasper Johns’ changing work shows how Pablo Picasso replaced Marcel Duchamp as the figurehead of modern art...

Dutch photographer Rineke Dijkstra, who was born in 1959, produces documentary-style images that offer a contemporary reinterpretation of portraiture.

Picasso inspired pop art...

For most people, “a Picasso” is a painting from the second half of the 1930s. Picasso’s Cubo-Surrealist style during this period was also his most celebrated – given its surprising facial deformations – and perhaps his most complex.