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Article: Beckmann, Picasso: Painters Reunited For the First Time.(Arts&Entertainment)
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- The New York Observer (New York, NY)
- Article date:
- December 13, 2004
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Byline: Hilton Kramer
In a rare collaboration between two elite art dealerships, Richard L. Feigen and Co. and the Jan Krugier Gallery have joined in organizing an exhibition devoted to a pair of major artists--Pablo Picasso (1881-1973) and Max Beckmann (1884-1950)--whose works, though they belong to the same generation of European modernists, are rarely seen in close, comparative proximity. The result, on view at the Feigen gallery, is Beckmann-Picasso/Picasso-Beckmann, a show that is not to be missed. It's not only of compelling interest in itself, but it explores a relationship in the history of modern painting that, as far as I know, has not heretofore been ...