20th-century French art of day-to-day life: newspapers, musical instruments, cigarettes, wine. Picasso and Braque exhibited their analytical Cubism under an exclusivity contract at the gallery of Daniel-Henry Kahnweiler, located on a quiet street behind La Madeleine in the 8th arrondissement of Paris. At the same time, Jean Metzinger, Albert Gleizes, Henri Le Fauconnier, Robert Delaunay and Fernand Léger exhibited alternate forms of Cubism at the Salon des Indépendants and the Salon d'Automne; massive exhibitions that brought Cubism to the attention of the general public. These artists had no intention of analyzing and describing mundane objects from daily life—a bowl of fruit, a pipe,
Georges Stein Georges Stein Georges Stein was a late 19th and early 20th century French painter, best known for scenes of Parisian street life. Sources conflict about Stein's dates of birth and death. The Benezit Dictionary of Artists gives the year of birth as "c. 1870". The auction house "Christie's", among others, gives the dates 1855–1930, and the French National Library the dates 1870–1955. Moreover, the journal "L'Éventail" of 15 January 1918 mentions "the painter Georges Stein who recently died at Geneva". There is also some confusion as to the gender of Stein. While the Benezit Dictionary and "L'Éventail" refer to Stein