Gertrude Stein Salon

The apartment building at twenty-seven rue de Fleurus served as the quiet stage for a revolution in modern art. Beginning in the early twentieth century, the American writer Gertrude Stein and her brother Leo turned their studio into a gathering place that many eventually dubbed the world's first museum of modern art. On Saturday evenings, the walls of their atelier were lined with radical new works by artists who were then largely unknown, including Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse, and Paul Cézanne. These gatherings became the vital center for an international circle of creators who would go on to define the modernist movement.