A Growing Use of Private Art in Public Spaces
THE exhibition that opens at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art on May 21 is certain to be a dazzler: “The Steins Collect: Matisse, Picasso and the Parisian Avant-Garde” will have 40 works by Picasso, 60 by Matisse and many by favorites like Bonnard and Cézanne. Picasso’s “Gertrude Stein” will be there, with his “Boy Leading a Horse.” So will Matisse’s wildly colorful “Woman With a Hat,” which was derided by critics when revealed in 1905 but was soon purchased by the Steins for what would become their pioneering collection of modern art….
