Article: Show bridges the divide between Matisse and Picasso

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Show bridges the divide between Matisse and Picasso By JOHN ZEAMAN, STAFF WRITER Date: 02-16-2003, Sunday Section: ENTERTAINMENT Edtion: All Editions.=.Sunday

The last pairing of two great artists at the Museum of Modern Art was the "Picasso and Braque: Pioneering Cubism" exhibit in 1989. Braque had described his partnership with Picasso as being like "two mountaineers roped to each other."

Nobody ever said that about Matisse and Picasso. From the beginning, they were cast as opposites: Matisse, the rational Frenchman, the hedonistic colorist who once said art should be like "a comfortable chair"; and Picasso, the passionate ...

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