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nationaux /Musée Picasso, Musée national d’art moderne/ tor, Musée Picasso, Paris; and Isabelle Monod-Fontaine,
Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris. The curators are: John Deputy Director, Musée Nationale d’Art Moderne, Paris.
Elderfield, Chief Curator atLarge, The Museum of Modern Because of the close cooperation between the four partici-
Art, New York; Kirk Varnedoe, Professor of the History of pating museums, Matisse Picasso will be uniquely rich in
Art, School of Historical Studies, Institute for Advanced confrontations between major masterpieces never before
Study, Princeton; John Golding, Painter and Art Historian, physically juxtaposed. These will be reinforced by generous
London; Elizabeth Cowling, Senior Lecturer, Department of loans from the Hermitage Museum in Saint Petersburg,
Fine Art, University of Edinburgh; Anne Baldassari, Cura- the Pushkin Museum in Moscow, and from two museums

PICASSO

PABLO PICASSO
WOMAN IN AN ARMCHAIR
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 WILLIAM S. PALEY COLLECTION.
© 2003 ESTATE OF PABLO PICASSO/
ARTISTS RIGHTS SOCIETY (ARS), NEW YORK
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