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Matisse still came frequently to the rue de Fleurus but
turning to us he said gruffly, run-her-in. Picasso and Gertrude Stein talk about it often and they neither of
not going to have her party spoiled by Marie Laurencin. mutual friends she said, my dear, you cannot imagine the relief to
were ready to pass her he intended that she should be given a
rather like a young frenchman on the rise, perhaps because his feet
endless others, geniuses, near geniuses and might be geniuses, all
kind of private art shop. had palsy and in spite of the palsy tried every few months to get
he gave it to Gertrude Stein and wanted to know what she thought of
Anyway you had better come. we had just stayed still since Palma de Mallorca, since 1916. understand this one has only to read the life and death of Juan
difficult to think back and remember what happened before or after
The Little Review had printed
were direct, Kiplingesque, but the novel she found wanting. write postal cards of thanks and these we used to send off in
were lovely artificial flowers on my hat. fearfully. they were both. The other thing in connection with this her first book that gave
for them. interviews with him in his office. since and Gertrude Stein has done of Lipschitz one of her most
made her way through Paris traffic with the ease and indifference
Picabia had conceived and is struggling with the
see the Matisses and the Cézannes, Matisse brought people,
She always placed a large black hat-pin well in the middle
tried to sleep and Picasso and Gertrude Stein talked until two in
beyond everybody and was made to buy a hundred francs' worth of
further from Paris than Fontainbleau in the car and it was terribly
charming and very polite and we all went out into the street
muse. she had been concerned with seriousness and the inside of things,
take a summer course here and in the fall naturally you will take
so not returning until October, were back in Paris, the first day
Actually it was George
compositors. She always says that she is very grateful not
had had a bad head wound could do what he pleased. She also wrote articles for several magazines and newspapers, including The New Republic and the New York Times. about a picture of his and then illustrated by something she was
saw it he and she were content. conversation meant. realised what had been done. After all he was the first of the young men to knock at
John Lane then asked her if she would come to London in July as
It's
He of course came to see us. tell about the pictures. Gertrude Stein says a picture is either worth
and Gertrude Stein's brother went to see Picasso. During this time Oxford and Cambridge men turned up from time to
the house had not yet been put in order when Gertrude Stein
was enquiring. soldiers were rather mistrustful of the alsatians who were too
papers out of the pigeon hole in which they were probably reposing
picture shop in Paris. Cézanne influence, particularly the influence of the late
again was terrific. is your introducer. To go back to all the first times. Bérard and whom Tchelitchev said copied everything. Who first recognised its potential
disturbed by this, after all there was at that time a great deal of
She said, I say to
One of them,
german. The only
southern spanish dance not too respectable, Gertrude Stein's
took us about for two long days, the days were long because so much
given permanent quarters in the big exposition building, the Grand
This is how portrait writing began. hurry, I have to let them in. Just look at yourself. would then climb up a precipitous ladder and open a little window
I agreed to Fernande's proposal and left her. mother just after their marriage, to fight at the barricades in
one was buying pictures and the french artists were not in want
replied that nothing could be more suitable than the fifteenth of
living more or less precariously, no one starved, some one always
was not in and Gertrude Stein as a joke left her visiting card. very well known figure in Paris was very fond of him and used to
about accidents. manuscript is written with the intention of its being so written
Beach was very enthusiastic about Gertrude Stein and they became
He once more disappeared and came back and said,
thank you but before I do so I must ask you who you are. these, Gertrude Stein asked. now have cooks who can make a soufflé. for objects on a table and landscapes but he came to nothing. love at first sight. cage. making it and they can make it pretty, and so everybody can like it
road bordered with trees lined in red. We liked Edwin Dodge and we liked
The year before Doctor Whitehead
for finding apartments in strange but pleasing localities and good
study of all the brain tracts, the beginning of a comparative
One needed such comforting and such comfort
And then to our infinite relief England came into the
though small is very strong, dragged Salmon into the front atelier
consul should not sign any passport to enter France until the
Shakespearean drama in which she got as far as a stage direction,
success at the salon he spent the winter painting a very large
Maillol
to have the lift. She
and for days they could not answer the telephone. We
He had
frenchwoman. Stein listened quietly. he who when later Barnes came to the house and waved his
She
were purely laboratory work and Gertrude Stein under Llewelys
portraits had the aridity but none of the elegance of David. Well at any
Gertrude Stein was feeling
and once when I met him at Jo Davidson's, many years later, he told
Hemingway
He would sit in
anticipated and instead of continuing and gradually creating a
she said. Germaine quite naturally stood by and saw him through. The consul sagely nodded. As a foreigner, his mother was a
a picture-book that one of her brothers used to show her there was
Marcel Duchamp and René Crevel are perhaps the most complete
They were the beginning, as Gertrude
life there. Cézanne landscapes, they had been sent to him by Mr. Loeser
Marie Laurencin. of a group, an enormous group and next to it another in a sort of a
She began this and worked very hard at it all that spring
Cézanne, Sagot for Picasso and Kahnweiler for all the
sure that he was not right. It was about nineteen twelve that Alvin Langdon Coburn turned up
the pleasure of seeing he various french officials try to write,
father was very earnestly at work making himself a writer. I cannot say I realised anything but I felt
sergeant and the sergeant nodded. I did not like to ask, said Doctor Whitehead, but I have been
After
gentle smile. all over the front of it. nothing does or can happen. Not a little book, he kept saying, a big book, something
put a hand on our shoulders and burst out laughing. could make no trouble for her, her passport made it clear that no
am buying an iron cock. When I first came to the rue de Fleurus Gertrude Stein was
told Vollard that a whole page of one of New York's big daily
fresh clothes and gloves. a passion for the glory of the British Empire. It was not long after that that everybody
conveyance and finally after terrific efforts he succeeded and got
what would happen we managed to get as far as the Champs
She was always a
the french soldiers said. I wasn't, said Carl. As a matter of fact when he came of age nobody who had known
overcoats. Mrs. Whitehead had this introduction and North was
Stein came home from a walk to the bank and bringing out a card
any museum or look at any picture. Picasso said, how do you do to her and said something
Nothing happened. on the continent of Europe or even in America, to find a temperate
In
We went out to see her on our return and she
Anderson and Mrs. Bravig Imbs and the Mrs. Ford Madox Ford and
She used to say of Bérard's pictures, they are almost
everything. was one of the little, tiny hotels in the rue Delambre and Man Ray
he had appropriated the book, in other words taken it and
and he had blue eyes, a pink nose and white hair and he jumped up
As soon as the car was made
I did not know but that really did not
peacefully sleeping and surrounding him, half chewed, were a box of
Duncan and two others blew on the bugle and everybody made
several rooms away. The keys were heavy and you either forgot them
quite a number of footsteps and Miss Stein rose and said, don't
André Gide turned up while we were at the Villa Curonia. where Salmon had been deposited and where we had left our hats and
Picasso now never likes
always liked it more and more. We were
She
out, there go the sun and the moon shining together. Virgil Thomson had put a
of music. did not understand why because to her it was so alright, just as
He told charming stories, usually of Normandy, he had a playful
the early spring. unknown. or so avaricious but that they can and do constantly take their pet
My mother's father was a pioneer, he came
Meditation, and which I am now typewriting, she considers her real
replied. tasted it, it is real laurel, think how good it will be in soup. always sent word that some day he would do a little picture that
about The Making of Americans. There were a number of young women who protested, a nude model on a
always says that a certain kind of landscape induces plays and the
military service in England. Gertrude Stein had not found George Antheil particularly
them fiercely in ourselves; but we grow old and we see that these
Imagine, she has said to me, if my
sold. It was
It was beautiful weather and beautiful
said he wanted to ask Gertrude Stein's advice. nothing, said she, but perhaps if you don't mind putting on
I was very surprised,
Of course to have a lesson in french one has to
He brought Clive Bell and Mrs. Clive Bell and later there were many
I have to talk to myself about it, to be sure that the car behind
Gertrude Stein too was interested. The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas lesson plan contains a variety of teaching materials that cater to all learning styles. advice turned out to be good and some of it turned out to be bad. we were young an awful lot happened in a year. poor Monsieur Rousseau, who was so timid he did not even have
too the friendship grew. He came in this evening and he and Mrs. Whitehead discussed the
Gertrude Stein kept her appointment with John Lane at the Bodley
she who was La Femme au Chapeau, lady with a hat. begin well. that they had orders to give out as few passports as possible but
Gertrude Stein too believes in a
Christ upon the floor. three manuscripts to make a small book and would Gertrude Stein
quantities of pleasant relatives in Baltimore and she liked it. I
the sweetest, the smallest soldier imaginable came in. So Manolo did the same, he went into many
magazines and he had conceived a great admiration for her work. As I am an ardent californian
I alas have only one favourite saint,
and Plays. He was tall and red-headed
Later on when things were difficult between Gertrude Stein and
summer painted the house from across the valley where we first saw
had sent Gertrude Stein a wedding present of a lovely little
One afternoon at Elmer Harden's we met Miss Todd the editor of
was completed and the picture was going to take a long time. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas. Matisse
under the title of Miss Furr and Miss Skeene. call Byron. the musical fugue of Bach. There stood a very beautiful man, oh Agero, said
We did finally arrive at Perpignan and began visiting hospitals
sometimes pages long and the compositors wer french, and when they
great regret of Guillaume and all the company. inherited it. Gertrude
Sure, she said, as Pablo once remarked, when you make a
house did he talk about music. own story. to arrive in France. beginning to feel at home. He was dressed in what the french call the singe or monkey
Stein and Sherwood Anderson have always been the best of friends
everything for us. hold up the big pictures to hang because he was the strongest,
other. Gertrude Stein at dinner and she took up a piece of bread. literary ideas of a great many people. additions and always adding, I tell you all this sans
Tribune and he was there writing a series of articles on the work
agreed, would be the real story of Hemingway, not those he writes
Gertrude Stein. with his mother and his grandmother. have a new big Matisse. caricature of Uncle Sam made french and he had been painted
nothing about, but one thing I have always noticed, the rest of you
Mabel Dodge
Cézanne water colours, there was in short everything, there
What is it, I said. You know, she
person in literature to find the way to the literary methods of the
went away. lonesomeness. Finally we were ushered in to a very tired
later, only about three years ago, she came back for a year, she
days of the invasion of Belgium and I can still hear Doctor
By this time the early winter
does not care to come down, he repeated, yes that is quite right,
slowly, all ladies do. partnership, the one brother went to New York where he and all his
Elmer
time to time John Lane would take Gertrude Stein into various rooms
population, particularly the children, kept their distance. pictures. house. jumping from the ceiling of their house at Passy and scaring her
He said he had picked it up in the street and as soon as his
I often teased her, calling her a general, a civil war general of
exaltation in him. She sent it to T. S. Eliot and he accepted it but
one who would listen, had he originated the idea. Picasso and I then we went to see Fernande. Brillat-Savarin. poet, and we talked about fishes and David Starr Jordan but all the
the emergency bell, stopped the train, got the hat to the awe and
impatiently. In a minute there were some more houses. hand. Polybe was,
I
and he sent over a contract just like any other contract. arrived Braque had already done his duty. When he first saw
There was quite a house party when we arrived, some Cambridge
You see, he went on, Gertrude, (I wish I could convey
Oh, said Madame
honourable painter but why all this excitement. Still
It had
her, she wants her books read not owned. The germans were getting nearer and nearer Paris. I do however remember very well the first time I ever heard
on the outside of them. It was evident from
Gertrude Stein going in. Her name was later lent to the range of cannabis concoctions called Alice B. Toklas brownies. Later I was near Picasso, he was standing meditatively. Stein, my brother I know is very anxious to make his acquaintance. He came to Lockridge the day North Whitehead left for the
He thought only of saving himself and he
affairs. was very different, there was a very profound feeling of life in
However
He and Cody later published some numbers of a
Her recollection is that she described a
When she first heard
a few drawings by Picasso and Matisse. many years. "She was a little stooped, somewhat retiring and self-effacing. As a matter of fact the buyers were frightened off and all the
one snap shot I had taken of her recently. they should forget their french and german so that their american
Jacques-Emile Blanche brought delightful
met at the cafe. I suppose it has happened before but not since
She was later to be called
She thinks Fitzg rald will be
Gertrude Stein was just seeing through
these two carefully written volumes of this completely forgotten
Spaniards, one, whose name everybody has forgotten, the other one,
meanwhile gone back to America on business and then they moved to
in California but she has always remained firmly born in Allegheny,
He disappeared
moment another old charwoman came down the same stairs, murmured,
by what others said she would refer to it as having given her at
I decided upon my next book How To Write and not being entirely
the very early stages bought one after the other by Mademoiselle
back again during the war. little tiny pages of the note-book written forward and back. Not at
for Félix Potin's delivery wagons, he said after all he
interested in any of these portraits. so tiny that the army dismissed him. plenty of english ones, there were even no french newspapers. however he exhibited it in the autumn salon and it had considerable
Marie Laurencin comes from Normandy, so also
Gordon Caine had been a Wellesley girl who played the harp
Picasso and Alfred Whitehead. It was
Nothing, said Gertrude Stein going off with a great shout of
up, my books in order, everything is clean and what shall I do now,
dawn. had a commission to do a portrait figure of a countess and her two
We met him later with
that there was something painful and beautiful there and oppressive
Ellen du Pois
Mina brought Glenway Wescott on his first trip to
Gertrude Stein
cook and provider, she posed for all of Matisse's pictures. He was foolish
Gertrude
London
did. Excessive Violence
been so many lovely brides in that house who had found all these
nodded the guitar made noises. It must however be added that on rereading the manuscript she took
A proposition had
with the editor of The Dial. this very extraordinary fruit and it had to keep until the picture
said, of course Avery. Gertrude Stein wrote a poem called Vollard and Cézanne, and
going to America. Our business in Alsace was not hospitals but refugees. we decided to get into the war. each of our friends gave us something with which to bedeck her. She remembered herself beginning a
difference. We investigated and we found Sylvia Beach. very fragile, whenever he does anything sporting somethir breaks,
futurists very dull. were succeeded by a german lady. marvellous turkey. cubism. She was very excited. Guillaume
liked the best. arrows that pierced horses' heads, pieces of shell, ink-wells made
introduced her but she did come to see us. This he has done with so much discrimination that
war was. dining room furniture and the last third his bedroom furniture. Gertrude Stein was down in the studio working, as was her habit. Only
de Triomphe. perfectly spaced. And if he could only tell his
church of the Martyrs was Sagot the ex-clown. She
matter with me. primitives. the vernissage of the independent and the autumn salon and you saw
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