Gertrude Stein & Pablo Picasso — theculturetrip.com

Enter your writing to The Culture Trip Award & you could win $3,000! #tctaward We are offering a $3,000 prize for a student or recent graduate whose article on The Culture Trip attains the highest readership within 3 months of publication, $2,000 for the second most-read article and $1,000 for the third most-read article. It was a fairly conventional nude – ‘Young Girl with a Basket of Flowers’ - but it caused considerable friction in the Stein household. Leo loved it, but Gertrude hated it: ‘something rather appalling in the drawing of the legs and the feet, something that repelled and shocked her’. The art-dealer who was selling it, Sagot, wondered whether the problem might not be solved by guillotining off the legs and the feet. The only thing that all three could eventually agree on was that the latter solution would not do. It was only Leo’s persistence and his obvious love for the painting – paired, perhaps, with the fact it was only 150 francs – that persuaded Gertrude to accept it.

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