Bidspirit auction | GERTRUDE STEIN, ”BUY ART”

GERTRUDE STEIN, ”BUY ART” - This lot features a professionally framed poster of Anne Hughes with the quote below, ”When you are not rich you either buy clothes or you buy art”. Measures in frame, 19.5'' H x 25.5'' W. Gertrude Stein was an American modernist writer and avant-garde art collector who became a pivotal figure in the Paris art scene of the early 20th century. Born in 1874, she studied at Radcliffe and Johns Hopkins before settling in Paris in 1903 with her brother, Leo. There, she established a famous salon at 27 rue de Fleurus, nurturing a circle of expatriate artists and writers like Pablo Picasso and Ernest Hemingway.