Matisse, Cézanne, Picasso. The Stein Family

The Grand Palais (Paris, France), the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York organize Matisse, Cézanne, Picasso. The Stein Family.

The exhibition looks at the history of an out-of-the-ordinary family: the Steins. They were the first people to buy Matisses and Picassos and they also received the entire avant-garde into their homes and thus built up one of the most astonishing collections of modern art.

It shows how important its patronage was for the artists and how it helped establish a new standard of taste in modern art, through Leo's view of the sources of modernity and his exchanges with the intellectuals of the time; Gertrude's friendship with Picasso; Sarah's relations with Matisse; and the projects that Gertrude developed with artists in the 20s and 30s.

It is a major exhibition bringing together an outstanding ensemble of works from the Steins' various collections: Renoir, Cézanne, Picasso, Matisse, Manguin, Bonnard, Vallotton, Laurencin, Gris, Masson, Picabia, etc. It is split into eight sections:

1. "The Big Four": Manet, Renoir, Degas and Cezanne, the Pillars of Modern Art.
2. The Classical Tradition vs Modernity.
3. The "Fauve" Revelation, 1905 Salon d'Automne.
4. Saturdays at the Steins'.
5. Matisse. A Complete, Sensitive Collection.
6. Gertrude Stein and Picasso.
7. 1920-1930: Post-Cubism and the Neo-Romantics
8. Gertrude Stein, Portraitsand Homage.

Date: until January 16.
Location: Grand Palais. Nave of the Grand Palais. Avenue Winston-Churchill. 75008 Paris. France.
Opening hours: from Friday to Monday from 9am to 10pm. Tuesdays from 9am to 2pm. Wednesdays from 10am to 10pm. Thursdays from 10am to 8pm.

See some of the works in the following slideshow