Georges Braque

It was in his home.

We were in front of a painting by Braque.

It wasn't

in his home.

Richardson collects the reactions.

Georges Braque, who becomes his partner in inventing cubism, so this is closest ally, said it was like Picasso wanted to make them drink kerosene.

Matisse was reportedly angry.

He thought it was a joke at the expense of modern painting.

More than a thousand works by hundreds of artists.

US art alongside Cezanne, Van Gogh, Gauguin, Matisse, Picasso, Braque, Brancusi, Duchamp.

Today, those names come prepackaged with museum audio guides, scholarly catalogs, and tote bags that cost $42.

In 1913, these people were troubled because many US viewers still had some fairly traditional expectations.

The large canvas was the turning point away from the African, or Primitivist, period and entered into Cubism.

Picasso developed this style in partnership with painter Georges Braque, both influenced by Cézanne.

The two sliced the pictorial space, attempting to see all angles at once.

They ditched scale and perspective.

Yes, there's so many, but I think there's a few that hit me on a real personal level.

Part of the book, a secondary storyline, looks at this free French soldier named Alexander Roseberg, whose father is the dealer to Picasso, Braque, Leger, Matisse.

So the preeminent modern art dealer in France.

And Their collection is one of the collections looted very early

And it, there's definitely those influences there.

Even going further back to, you know, like some of the found stuff that Picasso and Braque were doing or Kurt Schwitters' collages or even the, some of the pop artists, you know, the, the assemblages that they were making.

That's also, you know, been an inspiration to me.

Yes, how I make this is quite interesting because I have two spaces.

It's the story of the Rosenberg family.

Paul Rosenberg, who was the exclusive art dealer to Picasso, Matisse, Leger, Braque.

And I got to go into the building that was their gallery in their house, this massive building.

in Paris and actually I was able to get in because I emailed every single business there.