Proto-Cubism cubes": In light of the headway made by Cézanne, the multiple use of the word "cube" with reference to diverse works by diverse artists, and the other factors involved (political, social, cultural), it has been suggested that Cubism, with its proto-phase, would have emerged regardless of Picasso's intervention. The art historian and collector Douglas Cooper viewed Cubist painting to have been the beginning of a stylistic revolution which was inevitable. The American art scholar and MoMA curator William Rubin argued that Braque, with his commitment to a Cézannist syntax, would have created early Cubism had Picasso never existed. Pablo Picasso's
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