The Steins collect
Subtitle: Matisse, Picasso, and the Parisian avant-garde
By: edited by Janet Bishop, Cécile Debray, and Rebecca Rabinow ; [contributors, Isabelle Alfandary ... [et al.] ; curators of the exhibition, Janet Bishop ... [et al.]]
Contributors: San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; Grand Palais (Paris, France); Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.)
Publisher: San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; In association with Yale University Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: [San Francisco, Calif.]; New Haven, [Conn.]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 492
ISBN-13: 9780300169416; 9780918471871
Subjects: Art collections; Exhibitions; French Art
Other titles: Matisse, Picasso, and the Parisian avant-garde
Notes: Published to accompany an exhibition held at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, May 21-Sept. 6, 2011, the Réunion des Musées Nationaux-Grand Palais, Paris, Oct. 3, 2011-Jan. 20, 2012, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Feb. 21-June 3, 2012.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Discovering modern art: the Steins' early years in Paris, 1903-1907  -- Rebecca Rabinow; title: Saturday evenings at the Steins'  -- Emily Braun; title: Leo Stein before 1914  -- Gary Tinterow, assisted by Marci Kwon; title: Leo without Gertrude  -- Martha Lucy; title: Sarah and Michael Stein, Matisse, and America  -- Janet Bishop; title: Matisse as religion: the "Mike Steins" and Matisse, 1908-1918  -- Claudine Grammont; title: The Steins build: La Corbusier's villa Stein-de-Monzie, les terrasses  -- Carrie Pilto; title: Gertrude Stein and painting: from Picasso to Picabia  -- Cécile Debray; title: Gertrude Stein and Pablo Picasso: in their own words  -- Hélène Klein; title: Gertrude Stein as portrait painter  -- Isabelle Alfandary; title: Alice Toklas and the Gertrude Stein Collection, 1946-1967 -- Edward Burns.