Matisse Wins!

By LAURIE FENDRICH

Matisse and Picasso, the two biggest lions of modern art, go head to head in the recently opened "Matisse Picasso" exhibition, on view through May 19 at the Museum of Modern Art, in its temporary headquarters in Queens, New York. The art in the show spans the period from 1906 to 1961, but the exhibition concentrates on paintings from the 1910s and the 1920s, when the rivalry between Matisse and Picasso was most public and people who knew and cared about modern art came down strongly on the

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'Ruthless Hedonism: The American Reception of Matisse' - July 23, 1999
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