Pablo Picasso, Portrait of Gertrude Stein, 1906, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.

 

 When someone commented that Stein didn’t look like her portrait, Picasso replied, “She will.” Stein wrote “If I Told Him: A Completed Portrait of Picasso” in response to the painting. -

 

 

See more at: http://baltimorepostexaminer.com/gertrude-stein-expat-art-collector-writer-pure-genius/2014/01/28#sthash.kJswWtKx.dpuf