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291, Picasso-Braque Exhibition
Alfred Stieglitz American
Not on view
"An Exhibition of Recent Drawings and Paintings by Picasso and by Braque, of Paris" took place between December 9, 1914, and January 11, 1915, immediately following "Statuary in Wood by African Savages." Shortly before or after the exhibition, Stieglitz placed a Kota reliquary sculpture just arrived from France at the center of this striking photographic composition. Methodically arranged in harmonious relation to one another are a seemingly incongruous assembly of formal elements: a Kota sculpture flanked by works by Picasso (on the wall), and a wasp’s nest and brass bowl (on pedestals). Through such deliberate choreography, Stieglitz created a modernist manifest, in which all objects on display, whatever their nature, share a same aesthetic value.
