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executed by the artists in 1906, the year they met, and with developments in contemporary art. The largest part of
works they exchanged soon thereafter. Matisse was by the exhibition concentrates on works produced between
then established as leader of the Fauve movement, which 1907 and 1917, when the painters were in open competi-
represented everything that was innovative and daring in tion and created some of the finest art of the twentieth
French painting. Picasso, although he had been recognized century. In this period, the impact of Picasso’s Cubism
in Spain as a child prodigy, was still something of an outsider is clearly evident in Matisse’s work. Beginning in 1917,
in Paris. But shrewd observers already saw the two men Matisse spent more time in Nice and reverted to a more
as the rival personalities most likely to influence future intimate, introspective, and naturalistic manner. Picasso
stayed mostly in Paris and was working in diverse styles

PICASSO

PABLO PICASSO
BOY LEADING A HORSE
1906 OIL ON CANVAS
7’2 7/8 X 51 5/8” (220.6 X 131.2 CM)
THE MUSEUM OF MODERN ART, NEW YORK
THE WILLIAMS PALEY COLLECTION
© 2003 ESTATE OF PABLO PICASSO /
ARTISTS RIGHTS SOCIETY (ARS), NEW YORK
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