The Steins Collect at the Metropolitan Museum

The Metropolitan Museum of Art, (New York, USA) organizes The Steins Collect. Matisse, Picasso and the Parisian Avant Garde.

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.

Date: until June 3.
Location: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1000 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10028. USA
Opening hours: from Tuesday to Thursday from 9.30am to 5.30pm. Fridays and Saturdays from 9.30am to 9pm. Sundays from 9.30am to 5.30pm.