PERHAPS A GIFT VOUCHER FOR MUM?: MOTHER'S DAY
Pablo Picasso (1881-1973) was one of the greatest figures of twentieth-century art. Gertrude Stein (1874-1946) was a writer and art critic and one of the first collectors of cubist art. Laurence Madeline is curator of the Mus e Picasso in Paris, and custodian of the Picasso Archives. Lorna Scott Fox is a journalist, critic and translator based in London.
Such history might well lead a reader to anticipate scintillating exchanges, crackling with imagination, through-out this collection... a shock does await, but not the kind one might predict. --Linda Simon The European Journal of Life Writing A triumph of scholarship. Editor Laurence Madeline provides scrupulous annotation, drawing upon memoirs, biographies, cultural histories, and other people's letters; the book is beautifully illustrated with photograhs, manuscripts, works of art, and reproductions of postcards. . . . Although both Stein and Picasso have been written about extensively, this volume is fresh, rich, and engrossing.--Linda Simon Georgia Review
