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Matisse Picasso consists of almost 140 works focusing primarily on painting, with sculptures inter-
spersed throughout and special sections of works on paper which reinforce critical thinking raised
by the confrontations of works on canvas. The exhibition begins with self-portraits executed by the
artists in 1906, the year they met, and with works they exchanged soon thereafter. Matisse was by
then established as leader of the Fauve movement, which represented everything that was innovative
and daring in French painting. Picasso, although he had been recognized in Spain as a child prodigy,
was still something of an outsider in Paris. But shrewd observers already saw the two men as the
rival personalities most likely to influence future developments in contemporary art.

Picasso

Pablo Picasso
BATheR
1908-09
oil on canvas
51 1/8 x 38 1/8”
(129.8 x 96.8 cm)
The museum of modern arT, new York
louise reinhardT smiTh bequesT
© 2003 esTaTe of Pablo Picasso/
arTisTs righTs socieTY (ars), new York

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