African Art, New York, and the Avant-Garde
This exhibition highlights the specific African artifacts acquired by the New York avant-garde and its most influential patrons during the 1910s and 1920s.
Art Exhibition
previously on
at
Metropolitan Museum of Art
in
New York,
United States.
From
Tuesday 27 November 2012 to Monday 02 September 2013

Published by anonymous on Monday 29 July 2013.
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Featuring the Metropolitan’s own holdings as well as loans from public and private collections, the exhibition includes some forty wood sculptures from West and Central Africa presented alongside photographs, sculptures, and paintings by Alfred Stieglitz, Charles Sheeler, Pablo Picasso, Francis Picabia, Diego Rivera, and Constantin Brancusi. Together, these works of art from Africa and the Western avant-garde evoke the original context in which they were first experienced simultaneously almost a century ago.