Spotlight on the Collection: Artists in Depth - Picasso, Braque, Leger, Delaunay May 19, 2011

'Spotlight on the Collection' is the first in a new series of ongoing exhibitions drawn from the Albright-Knox's Collection focusing on important artists whose works the Gallery has acquired in depth. With this first exhibition, the Gallery returns to its modernist roots with a complete display of all works in the Collection - more than seventy-five objects - by four masters: Pablo Picasso (Spanish, 1881-1973), Georges Braque (French, 1882-1963), Fernand Leger (French, 1881-1955), and Sonia Delaunay (French, born Russia, 1885-1979). All were early-twentieth-century pioneers of abstraction. Picasso and Braque joined forces as the founders of Cubism, Delaunay's bright colors and geometric forms presaged geometric abstraction, and Leger's cylindrical forms interpreted the mechanical age and predated Pop art.