In a news release, the museum said Lauder's collection, "unsurpassed in the number of masterpieces and iconic works critical to the development of Cubism, " will fill the spaces where representations of modern art had been lacking.
The collection is "unsurpassed in the number of masterpieces and iconic works critical to the development of Cubism, " according to a release from the museum.
Braque's "Terrace at the Hotel Mistral, L'Estaque" (1907) marks the icons transition from fauvism to Cubism, the museum said.
Braque, an equally rigorous painter, would later be described, for the precision and structure of his pictures, as the Chardin of cubism.
"I selected the Met as the way to share this collection because I feel that it's essential that Cubism - and the art that follows it, for that matter - be seen and studied within the collections of one of the greatest encyclopaedic museums in the world, " he said.
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World War I camofleurs concentrated on hardware like artillery and ships, with the British soon catching up on the French after initial reservations about the military benefits of Cubism, despised by some as "Boche art".
In their work, the competing influences of Fauvism's brilliant color and Cubism's angular geometry are combined in various ways to suggest intense feeling, even violence.
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He went on to found Cubism (with Braque), which led to Modernism and Picasso becoming the most famous artist in the world.
And while the French painter was painting these happy, pretty pictures, his contemporaries were dismantling art and inventing cubism.
"Now, Cubism will be represented with some of its greatest masterpieces, demonstrating both its role as the groundbreaking movement of the 20th century and the foundation for an artistic dialogue that continues today, " Campbell said.
Along with the collection, the Met announced the creation of the Leonard A. Lauder Research Center for Modern Art to serve as a mecca for scholars and curators studying Cubism.
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