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AIM 68(3):517-542 (2011)

Sarah Stein: The Woman Who Brought Matisse to San Francisco: A Memoir: Learning about Art and the Art of Psychoanalysis

Author: Stanley Steinberg

Introduction

In 1904, Sarah Stein and her husband Michael moved from San Francisco to Paris, where they joined Michael's siblings Leo and Gertrude in the discovery of modern art. Picasso began painting his legendary portrait of Gertrude Stein in 1905, launching a lifelong friendship between the two. Far less known is the central role that Sarah Stein played in the life and career of Matisse. Sarah met Matisse shortly after admiring his scandalous Woman with a Hat at the 1905 Salon d'Automne exhibition. With Michael, she became one of the artist's most ardent patrons—buying his paintings before they were widely appreciated, opening her Left Bank apartment to share her passion for the artist's work, and providing him decades of unwaveringpersonal encouragement and support.
After thirty-one years of living abroad, Sarah and Michael returned to the Bay Area in 1935. Dr. Stanley Steinberg's vivid account of his somewhat unlikely relationship with Sarah, forged when he was a young Stanford student and she a widow more than fifty years his senior, sheds invaluable light on Sarah's character, her interests in the 1940s, and the very special place that she and Matisse held in each other's lives. This publication of Dr. Steinberg's memoir coincides with the major traveling exhibition The Steins Collect: Matisse, Picasso, and the Parisian Avant-Garde, which reunites and contextualizes the Stein
Reproduction, including downloading, of Matisse works is prohibited by copyright laws and international conventions without the express written permission of Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York.
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family's extraordinary art collections. The exhibition is co-organized by the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (May 21 - September 6, 2011); the Réunion des Musées Nationaux - Grand Palais, Paris (October 5, 2011 - January 16, 2012); and The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (February 21 - June 3, 2012).
Janet Bishop, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art

In 1942 when a young pre-medical stude

AIM 68(3):517-542 (2011)

Sarah Stein: The Woman Who Brought Matisse to San Francisco: A Memoir: Learning about Art and the Art of Psychoanalysis

Author: Stanley Steinberg

Introduction

In 1904, Sarah Stein and her husband Michael moved from San Francisco to Paris, where they joined Michael's siblings Leo and Gertrude in the discovery of modern art. Picasso began painting his legendary portrait of Gertrude Stein in 1905, launching a lifelong friendship between the two. Far less known is the central role that Sarah Stein played in the life and career of Matisse. Sarah met Matisse shortly after admiring his scandalous Woman with a Hat at the 1905 Salon d'Automne exhibition. With Michael, she became one of the artist's most ardent patrons—buying his paintings before they were widely appreciated, opening her Left Bank apartment to share her passion for the artist's work, and providing him decades of unwaveringpersonal encouragement and support.
After thirty-one years of living abroad, Sarah and Michael returned to the Bay Area in 1935. Dr. Stanley Steinberg's vivid account of his somewhat unlikely relationship with Sarah, forged when he was a young Stanford student and she a widow more than fifty years his senior, sheds invaluable light on Sarah's character, her interests in the 1940s, and the very special place that she and Matisse held in each other's lives. This publication of Dr. Steinberg's memoir coincides with the major traveling exhibition The Steins Collect: Matisse, Picasso, and the Parisian Avant-Garde, which reunites and contextualizes the Stein
Reproduction, including downloading, of Matisse works is prohibited by copyright laws and international conventions without the express written permission of Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York.
Page 517
family's extraordinary art collections. The exhibition is co-organized by the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (May 21 - September 6, 2011); the Réunion des Musées Nationaux - Grand Palais, Paris (October 5, 2011 - January 16, 2012); and The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (February 21 - June 3, 2012).
Janet Bishop, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art

In 1942 when a young pre-medical stude