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Jerry Saltz

It took the Metropolitan Museum of Art nearly 50 years to wake up to Pablo Picasso. It didn't own one of his paintings until 1946, when Gertrude Stein bequeathed that indomitable quasi-Cubistic picture of herself - a portrait of the writer as a sumo Buddh

Jerry Saltz

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The Metropolitan Museum of Art was very slow to recognize Pablo Picasso's importance, only acquiring its first painting of his in 1946. This initial piece came from Gertrude Stein, who left the museum a unique and bold portrait of herself painted in a style somewhat like Cubism.

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