Word: fleurus
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Paris 40 years ago. His friend Bernard Berenson, the top authority on Italian art, told him to look at the Cézannes at Dealer Ambroise Vollard's in 1904; soon afterward he discovered Matisse and Picasso. He and Gertrude had just settled down at 27 rue de Fleurus, the address Gertrude later made famous. But according to Leo she brought no pictures home until 1911 or 1912; he himself built up the Stein collection. "I was the only person anywhere, so far as I know, who in those early days recognized Picasso and Matisse...