The National Portrait Gallery’s new exhibit, “Seeing Gertrude Stein: Five Stories,” boasts more than 50 objects and artifacts and 100 artworks created by an international coterie of artists, all of which celebrate and illuminate the life and times of one of the most famous — and enigmatic — American figures in Paris between the world wars.
But there is one emerging story conspicuously not on view in “Seeing Gertrude Stein”; namely, the tale of the avant-garde icon’s extensive collaboration with the Vichy regime, the Nazi puppet government established in occupied France in World War II.
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