Andy Warhol: Gertrude Stein 1980 acrylic and silk screen print (New York Whitney Museum of American Art) The Exhibition at the Luxembourg Palace spotlights two great creative artists of the 20th Century: Gertrude Stein (1874 - 1946) and Pablo Picasso (1881-1973). They were both foreigners in France, Gertrude Stein from the United States and Picasso from Spain. This gave them them something in common and also a detachment and space to create new modern languages- he in painting, she in writing. When they met in 1905, she was 31 and Picasso was 24. Both admired Cézanne: Paul Cézanne : Pommes et biscuits (Apples and biscuits) 1880 Musée de l'Orangerie, Paris Gertrude Stein started writing her "Three Lives" while contemplating Cézanne's "Portrait of Mme Cézanne with fan"- a work which she acquired and never parted from until three years before her death. Cézanne's use of colour to define form and his altering of traditional perspective helped inspire P...