Musée du Luxembourg Exposition: Gertrude Stein and Pablo Picasso — The Invention of Language To mark the 50th anniversary of Picasso's death, the Musée du Luxembourg is staging a major exhibition on the story of the extraordinary friendship between two 20th-century icons, Pablo Picasso (1881-1973) and Gertrude Stein (1874-1946). Gertrude Stein (1874-1946), a Jewish American ...
The Steerage, 1907 by Alfred Stieglitz (America, 1864–1946). On May 14, 1907, Stieglitz and his family sailed to Europe aboard the fashionable Kaiser Wilhelm II. This picture was most likely taken several days later when the ship was moored in Plymouth, England. (Greenough, Key Set) As proprietor of the Little Galleries of the Photo-Secession and ...
The Burning Monk, 1963, Malcolm W. Browne (America, 1931-2012) In June 1963, most Americans couldn’t find Vietnam on a map. But there was no forgetting that war-torn Southeast Asian nation after Associated Press photographer Malcolm Browne captured the image of Thich Quang Duc (Vietnam, 1897-1963) immolating himself on a Saigon street. Browne had been given ...
Lewis Wickes Hine (America, 1874-1940), Sadie Pfeifer, a Cotton Mill Spinner, Lancaster, South Carolina, 1908. Working as an investigative photographer for the National Child Labor Committee, Lewis Hine believed that images of child labor would force citizens to demand change. The muckraker conned his way into mills and factories from Massachusetts to South Carolina by ...
Le Pho (Vietnam/France, 1907-2001) Fleurs (Flowers) signed in Chinese and signed again 'Le pho' (lower left); signed, titled and inscribed 'LE PHO Fleurs WF BH W. F. Findlay' (on the reverse); gallery label affixed (on the reverse) oil on canvas 73 × 92 cm. (28 3/4 x 36 1/4 in.) Painted circa 1970 Provenance Wally ...
