Volume 50, Number 5 · March 27, 2003
Twin Peaks
By Jack Flam
Matisse Picasso
Catalog of the exhibition by Elizabeth Cowling, John Golding, Anne Baldassari, Isabelle Monod-Fontaine, John Elderfield, and Kirk Varnedoe
an exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art, Queens, February 13–May 19, 2003.
Tate Publishing/Réunion des Musées Nationaux/Museum of Modern Art, 398 pp., $60.00, $35.00 (paper)
One day during the 1930s, Henri Matisse walked through the door of La Coupole on the Boulevard du Montparnasse and a visible thrill ran through the restaurant. As waiters raced forward to greet him Matisse turned to his companion and murmured, not without an edge of irritation, 'They think I'm Picasso.'[1]
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