Scarsdale Adult School Lecture -- “The Steins Collect: Matisse, Picasso, and the Parisian Avant-Garde"

In “The Steins Collect: Matisse, Picasso, and the Parisian Avant-Garde,” instructor Elizabeth Thompson Colleary, art teacher at the Scarsdale High School and consultant at the Whitney Museum of American Art, will lecture on the works to be featured at the Metropolitan Museum of Art from February to June 2012.  The American expatriate Stein family living in bohemian Paris—writer Gertrude, her brothers Leo and Michael, and Michael’s wife, Sarah—were among the first to recognize the talents of avant-garde painters like Henri Matisse and Pablo Picasso.  The coming exhibition will be the first time in a generation that dozens of the Steins’ holdings, including works by Matisse, Picasso, Paul Cezanne, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, and Henri de Toulouse Lautrec, will be reunited.  This $50 two-part lecture series meets on Mondays from 7 to 8:30 p.m. at the Scarsdale High School beginning November 7, 2011.