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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...
...deep, rich humor is the mark which separates Gertrude Stein from the stretches of the lunatic fringe. For her there is no working hour camaraderic in the lusty tradition of Murger; none of the careless, raptural inspiration of his Rodolfo. When the doors of 27 Rue de Fleurus are locked and the last villager has gone; in those sweet hours between midnight and dawn, when even Alice B. Toklas is abed, work, stern and serious, is the portion of Gertrude Stein...
...genius. "I may say that only three times in my life have I met a genius and each time a bell within me rang and I was not mistaken. . . ." (Other bell-ringers: Painter Pablo Picasso, Philosopher Alfred North Whitehead.) They set up house together, at No. 27 Rue de Fleurus, have been together ever since...
From the address 27 Rue De Fleurus, 6, in Paris under the name of "The Plain Edition," the unpublished work of Gertrude Stein is being printed in limited editions of 1000 copies each. The first volume to be ready is called "Lucy Church Amiably". This is to be followed by "How to Write Series" in two volumes. It is to be hoped that Miss Stein will here explain some of her peculiarities along these lines...