Volume 37, Number 9 · May 31, 1990
Two Who Made a Revolution
By John Golding
Picasso and Braque: Pioneering Cubism 24, 1989, to January 6, 1990
an exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art, New York City September
Picasso and Braque: Pioneering Cubism
catalog of the exhibition, by William Rubin
Museum of Modern Art (distributed by Little, Brown), 460 pp., $70.00
The exhibition entitled 'Picasso and Braque: Pioneering Cubism,' mounted last September at New York's Museum of Modern Art, and currently on view in a very modified form at the Kunstmuseum in Basel (and with a somewhat modified title: 'Picasso und Braque: Die Geburt des Kubismus') demonstrated yet again the Museum of Modern Art's supremacy. Some 350 works by Picasso and Braque were brought together in one of the most magisterial of the museum's many triumphs. Despite the legendary closeness of the collaboration between the two artists, most of the works on view had never been seen together before, and they never will be seen together in this way again. Many of the works were on the restricted lists of other museums and were thus in theory not free to travel; others were in the hands of private collectors who do not normally lend their pictures. The exhibition was conceived and organized by William Rubin, director emeritus of the department of painting and sculpture; seldom can a retiring museum official have achieved a comparable apotheosis.
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