To be sure, Braque and his fellow Cubist Picasso, who also stayed in Paris had a precarious position during the war, for the Germans considered them "degenerate" modern artists.

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One typically head-snapping juxtaposition places a proto-Cubist Picasso painting of a head near a 16th-century French wood sculpture of the crucified Christ and those are just two objects among more than two dozen on that wall.

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The actress broke off her engagement to Olivier Picasso, the French grandson of the Cubist artist Pablo Picasso, to go out with Ioan.

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Italian-born Donati bought Arlequin in Paris in the 1940s after becoming entranced by an early Cubist work by Picasso during a visit to the Musee d'art moderne.

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W. Turner, cubist paintings by Pablo Picasso and ancient Chinese bronzes.

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By giving the computer an "aesthetic sense, " Collomosse said they were able to create a series of automated artworks with new effects, including Picasso-style cubist pictures.

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Last week we celebrated the gift by Leonard Lauder to the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York of priceless Cubist paintings and sculptures by Picasso, Braque and others.

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Leonard A. Lauder will donate 33 works by Pablo Picasso and 17 by Georges Braques, two iconic artists considered pioneers of the Cubist movement.

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Found in a grotto in the Pyrenean foothills of France in 1922, there is something cubist about her protuberant breasts, buttocks and stomach so much so that an intrigued Picasso kept two copies in his studio.

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