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Gertrude Stein. Gertrude Stein, the American modernist writer, was an international celebrity, an artistic iconoclast, and a self-proclaimed genius. Her experiments in poetry and prose still puzzle structuralist, deconstructionist, and feminist critics.
In the long and celebrated career of Spanish artist Pablo Picasso, Gertrude Stein is an early work. Picasso and Stein, an American, were both expatriates living in Paris when they became friends. Stein soon became an important early patron of the artist as well.