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Pompidou, Paris. The curators are: John elderfield, Chief Curator atLarge, The Museum of Modern Art,
New York; Kirk Varnedoe, Professor of the history of Art, School of historical Studies, Institute for
Advanced Study, Princeton; John Golding, Painter and Art historian, London; elizabeth Cowling, Senior
Lecturer, Department of Fine Art, University of edinburgh; Anne Baldassari, Curator, Musée Picasso,
Paris; and Isabelle Monod-Fontaine, Deputy Director, Musée Nationale d’Art Moderne, Paris.

Because of the close cooperation between the four participating museums, Matisse Picasso will be
uniquely rich in confrontations between major masterpieces never before physically juxtaposed.

Matisse

henri maTisse
Portrait of MadaMe Matisse
1913.
oil on canvas
57 ½ x 38 ½”
(146 x 97.7 cm)
The sTaTe hermiTage museum, sT.
PeTersburg
© 2003 succession h. maTisse/
arTisTs righTs socieTY (ars), new York
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