Oil on canvas, 39 3/8 × 32 in. (100 × 81.3 cm). A portrait of the American writer and art collector [[Gertrude Stein]], painted between 1905 and 1906 at the end of Picasso's [[Rose Period]]. Stein sat for the artist some eighty or ninety times before he completed the work, which marks a significant transitional step toward [[Cubism]]. [[The Metropolitan Museum of Art]], [[New York]].