20.1.12
In yesterday's photograph this painting can be seen on the wall to Gertrude's right. It is Cezanne's The Artist's Wife in an Armchair 1867, normally in the Buhrle Collection, Zurich. Persephone readers might be tempted to mutter the word Greenbanks on looking at this painting; but anyone reading or listening to If I Told Him: A Completed Portrait of Picasso here will realise that the words Dorothy Whipple and Gertrude Stein are a total oxymoron.
