Matisse cross-country people-carrier required
Tate Modern will launch its spring megashow, MatissePicasso, on
11 May 2002. For the first time the show assembles a massive, representative
selection of the work of both artists altogether, which will also
illustrate their competition with each other ever since their first
meeting at Gertrude and Leo Stein’s Paris studio in l906. But
is this to be a level playing field? Have the goal posts been made
movable? Did they really become friends during the wartime occupation
of Paris? Can Renault, or Peugeot quickly come up with a design
called the Matisse? How many points for the Citroen Picasso, alors
de trop?
