Looking through a box of old prints. Many years ago, summertime, reading the morning paper (Dagens Nyheter), when suddenly she (used to think it was a she!), a butterfly (Aglias urticae), flying around in my apartment sat down on the article I was reading. The Swedish text below her has the rubric, roughly An unparalleled portrait. Below you can read It was in 1906 that Gertrud Stein met Picasso in Paris
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I used to think of it as a kind of decisive moment ¬ perhaps she could read and wanted to make a point!