Correspondence: Pablo Picasso and Gertrude Stein

Pablo Picasso was one of the most prodigious and revolutionary artists in the history of Western painting.  Gertrude Stein was an avant-garde American writer, art collector, eccentric and self-styled genius.  Her Paris home was the leading salon for artists and writers between the Wars.  Picasso painted Stein's portrait and they became firm friends.
 
Their correspondence extends across a time of extraordinary social and political change, between 1906 and 1944, effectively from the Bell…