Phranc ~ Gertrude Stein

"A Rose Is A Rose Is A Rose..." (Gertrude Stein, *February 3, 1874 †July 27, 1946, American writer and poet)

paintings showing Gertrude Stein as they appear:

1. Pablo Picasso, Portrait of Gertrude Stein, 1906, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City

2. Henri Matisse, Woman with a Hat, 1905. San Francisco Museum of Modern Art


3. Felix Edouard Vallotton, Gertrude Stein, 1907

Phranc singing her cover version of Jonathan Richman's "Pablo Picasso":

"Gertrude Stein" taken from her Album "Positively Phranc" released in 1991

audio only, slideshow showing paintings of Picasso, Matisse, Vallotton and some photographs of Gertrude Stein and her life companion Alice B. Toklas...

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• folk
• gertrude stein
• 1991
• positively phranc
• pablo picasso
• jonathan richman
• cover
• avant garde
• art
• modernist literature
• alice b. toklas

[lidagustava]

interesting women, the singer and the one she is singing about... faved, thx my dear!

[vudu8ball]

LOL! Oh I am sure she was more than once. Good song can't help thinking of Picasso Was Never Called An Asshole. Like that song too!

[luvphranc]

is it possible for him... i mean her... to refrain from that type of lingo?!

[kangfesher]

Her and Pablo were contemporaies in France as well as very good friends makes it all the more appropriate...and thank you very much for posting (I may still have this on cassette somewhere, it was nice to hear it again)

[mberning1]

At last, the phranc Stein!!

[ulihedi]

I second that, thanks a lot! :o)