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Girl Reading at a Table, 1934.
Pablo Picasso.
Oil and enamel on canvas.
Bequest of Florene M. Schoenborn, in honor of William S. Lieberman, 1995 (1996.403.1) ©1999 Estate of Pablo Picasso/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
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Painters in Paris: 1895–1950
March 8, 2000–January 14, 2001
During the first decades of the 20th century, France was host to many foreign artists and Paris was central to the development of modern art. This exhibition, which brings together for the first time more than 100 prime examples from the Metropolitan's collection of paintings by artists of the School of Paris, begins with the Impressionist tradition, represented by Monet, and chronologically continues through the Fauves, Cubists, and Surrealists. Many of these works—by 36 modern masters including Braque, Chagall, Dubuffet, Matisse, Miró, and Modigliani, as well as 19 paintings by Picasso—were acquired through major gifts and bequests during the past two decades. United in this exhibition, the works recall a period and place of great vitality and reveal unexpected relationships between the artists who so profoundly shaped the art of their century.The exhibition is sponsored by Aetna.
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