Please enjoy the prose that my lovely mother concocted in honor of Gertrude Stein's interesting linguistic abilities.
The collection was one of looking and viewing and beholding at the Met Museum one to be and hold in the beholding of the joy in the enjoying of all that displaying. Some were certainly following, commenting on this one and ones in the collection, commenting and reading and looking and thinking beholding in the walking in and out of the spaces in the rooms. To be walking in and out one beholding and viewing all the ones next ones in the collection on the ones in the collecting. This one was one charming with charming meaning, certain with important meaning, historic meaning, meaning meaning that was coming out of and following importantly. This one was one beholding and meaning always there was something coming out of and walking viewing to other ones with meaning, Some following the something coming out of this one following the next one something completely charming!
The Steins Collect
ReplyDeleteThank you very much indeed for your article about this magnificant exhibition .
When we see it we feel as a Gertrude Stein's light over it .
From for example her Preface she wrote for the first Riba-Rovira's exhibition on May 1945 in Galerie Roquepine in Paris .Where we can read Riba-Rovira "will go farther than Cezanne ...will succeed in where Picasso failed...Iam fascinated " by Riba-Rovira .
And the portrait of Gertrude Stein by Riba-Rovira is in the exhibition now .After the Jewish Museum of San Francisco and National Portrait Gallery in Washington .
It is about sixties years we have not seen it .And with the portraits by Picasso ,Picabia ,Riba-Rovira ,Tall-Coat ,Vallotton ;all togeither for the first time .
And Gertrude Stein tels us in her Preface for Riba-Rovira "I am fascinated" .
And you ?
You bring up an excellent point of how Gertrude Stein more than collected but really fostered strong relationships with these artists and their portraits reflect a certain homage to her.
ReplyDeleteAfter a war-torn, post-WWII that brought a demolished sense of a collective humanity, Gertrude turned to an artist who though young, had seen his share of atrocities: from civil war, to concentration camp, prison, etc. Riba-Rovira is truly fascinating! Gertrude was right..
Dear Cherise ,
ReplyDeletedo you think the portrait has only an historic interest or also an artistic interest ?
I read in a book from Edward Burns and Carl Van Vechten ;Riba-Rovira did several and not only one portrait of Gertrude Stein ,have heard about ?
Cesera
Cesera -
ReplyDeleteI think it has both historic and artistic interest. Gertrude was aesthetically driven and she recognized something in Riba Rovira. She realized that he had both strengths and weaknesses but saw enough raw talent that she would help foster. But also she wrote about not being able to find "young artists." A young artist she could influence and feel important vs contend with artists who were more developed and, thus, set in their ways.
I will have to investigate more about the other portraits he painted of her! Thank you for sharing.