If I Told Him: A Completed Portrait Of Picasso
"If I Told Him : A Completed Portrait of Picasso" is a poem by Gertrude Stein. Written in 1923, it was first published in Vanity Fair in 1924. It was in response to a portrait of her which Pablo Picasso had painted two decades before.
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