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Along with Degas, those were, for him, "the Big Four." Cézanne, he said, "has succeeded in rendering mass with a vital intensity that is unparalleled in the whole history of painting ... There can scarcely be such a thing as a completed Cézanne. Every canvas is a battlefield, and victory an unattainable ideal." Baltimore Museum of Art ### The Girl with Green Eyes, Matisse, 1908  When American friends visited Paris, the Steins sometimes encouraged them to buy works from their favorite artists. Their friend Harriet Lane Levy acquired this painting and had it shipped to San Francisco, where she was pleased to report it attracted the notice of the local press. She didn't mention that the caption that ran with it was "Matisse paints faces crazed by absinthe drinking." Succession H. Matisse / Artists Rights Society ### The Architect’s Table, Picasso, 1912  Unlike her brother Leo, Gertrude Stein remained true to Picasso after his turn to Cubism, which Leo couldn't stand. This was the first picture she bought on her own after she and her brother parted ways. As a tribute to her, Picasso represented her calling card in the lower right area of the canvas. Estate of Pablo Picasso / The Museum of Modern Art / Artist Rights Society, New York / Art Resource / SCALA / San Francisco Museum of Modern Art ### Sarah Stein, Matisse, 1916  In 1914, the best canvases in the Matisse collection of Michael and Sarah Stein disappeared into Germany when they lent them to an exhibition in Berlin just before the outbreak of World War I. Two years later, with the paintings still in limbo — the Steins would never regain them — Matisse painted paired portraits of Michael and Sarah, his most dedicated early collectors. Succession H. Matisse / Artists Rights Society ### Woman with a Hat, Henri Matisse, 1904  When Matisse exhibited this portrait of his wife Amelie at the annual Salon d'Automne in 1905, the derisive response of the public and press was relentless. A mocking group of conservative artists sent him a woman whose face was painted from forehead to chin in acid green stripes. Even Leo Stein, who would later buy the picture, said it struck him at first as "the nastiest smear of paint" he had ever seen. Succession H. Matisse / Artists Rights Society ### The Serf, Matisse, 1900–03  Michael and Sarah Stein prized this Matisse bronze, which was prominently displayed in their Paris apartment in a room filled with his paintings. But later, when they moved to a villa built for them by the pioneer Modernist architect Le Corbusier, they placed the work in isolation in a specially designed niche. Succession H. Matisse / Artists Rights Society ### Lady with a Fan, Pablo Picasso, 1905  What are we to make of the pose in this picture? Twisting his model into an angular semaphore that has sources in Velázquez and Ingres, Picasso has invested her with the immobile gravity of a hieroglyphic. Gertrude Stein bought the painting almost as soon as he finished it. When she decided to sell it in 1929 to raise money to publish her writings, she called a "family council" of herself, her companion Alice B. Toklas and Picasso. He told her she had owned it long enough. Estate of Pablo Picasso / Artists Rights Society ### Oil Sketch for Le Bonheur de Vivre (The Joy of Life), Matisse, 1905–06  The completed version of Matisse's complex painting, a pastoral scene from an imaginary Golden Age, with art historical references ranging from ancient Greek vase painting to 19th century Art Nouveau, was one of the centerpieces of Gertrude and Leo Stein's collection. Michael and Sarah Stein had to content themselves with several preliminary oil sketches, including this one. Succession H. Matisse / Artists Rights Society ### Boy Leading a Horse, Picasso, 1905–06  This may be the most haunting canvas Picasso produced before taking the plunge into Cubism. The serene boy's hands are empty — he leads the powerful but obedient animal without a rein. Was this Picasso's tribute to the power of the artist's hand? In 1936, more than two decades after it was sold by Leo and Gertrude Stein, this picture was purchased by William S. Paley, head of the CBS television network. Estate of Pablo Picasso / Artists Rights Society / Museum of Modern Art / SCALA / Art Resource ### Gertrude Stein, Picasso, 1905–06  Stein claimed, somewhat implausibly, that it required 80 to 90 sittings at Picasso's studio in Montmartre for him to produce this portrait. While it was under way, Picasso was unnerved by the boldness of Matisse's Le Bonheur de Vivre, which he saw at the Steins' apartment. Feeling challenged, he completely wiped out the face in Gertrude's portrait. Soon after, he traveled to the Catalan hill town of Gosol, where he found himself thinking about ancient Iberian carved heads he had seen at the Louvre. On his return, he painted Gertrude's head again, this time with the blunt, sculptural qualities of the Gosol heads. Gertrude later claimed that when someone protested that she didn't look like that, Picasso shot back, "She will." Estate of Pablo Picasso / Artist Rights Society / Metropolitan Museum of Art ### Blue Nude: Memory of Biskra, Matisse, 1907  Matisse's confrontational version of the classic reclining nude was produced after his visit to Algeria the previous year. In its blunt execution, brutal figuration and strenuously torquing pose, it's one of the pivotal works of his career and of Western art in general. In the 1920s, Gertrude Stein sold a number of works, including this one, to those other redoubtable American Jewish collectors, Dr. Claribel Cone and her sister Etta, who would later pass them on to the Baltimore Museum of Art. Succession H. Matisse / Artists Rights Society ### Head of a Sleeping Woman, Picasso, 1907  Provoked by the example of Matisse's Blue Nude, Picasso ventured into works like this one that opened the way to Cubism, with angular figuration and faces modeled after African masks. Even the pose of the woman's arm above her head echoes the raised arm of the woman in Blue Nude. 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