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... a small side room, where a commotion was brewing. On the wall hung Henri Matisse's Femme au Chapeau, an exuberant portrait of his wife, her feathered headpiece at a jaunty angle, composed from loose daubs of paint in an explosion of blues, reds, purples, and greens.

...showed them a portrait of Cézanne's wife seated in a red armchair, holding a fan on her lap, her expression enigmatic. One side of her face appeared dynamic, the other half smooth and flat as a mask. A brief deliberation over honey cakes down the street, and the painting was acquired.

... the face now resembled a sculptured mask, its features starkly outlined. She looks ageless, androgynous, out of time—and utterly assured in herself.
When Stein protested that it didn’t look at all like her—if anything, it bore a closer resemblance to the artist himself—he calmly replied, “It will.”

Controversial Figure
Eccentric Authoress
Gertrude Stein Now Puzzling God
The Mama of Dada
High Priestess of the Cult of Unintelligibility
Remarkable Egotist
Sibyl of Montparnasse
Literary Freak
Is going Gaga
Typhoid Mary of Prose Style
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