Modern Antiquity: Picasso, De Chirico, Leger & Picabia in the Presence of the Antique December 19, 2011

An extraordinary episode in the history of European modernism is the alliance between the avant-garde and the antique. Juxtaposing twentieth-century works with ancient objects, this major international loan exhibition focuses on how four eminent artists reinvented and transformed antiquity between 1905 and 1935.