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At a glance

60–90 minutes

African and Oceanic art meets the Paris avant-garde during the decade when modern art radically changed how Europe looked at the world.

Why go

The Quai Branly examines how the arts of Africa and Oceania circulated through Paris between 1913 and 1923, intersecting with the avant-garde and the formation of European modernism.

You'll see

African art · Oceanic art · Paris avant-garde · Modernism · Cross-cultural exchange · Early 20th century

Don't miss

The connections with Picasso-era Paris: this is a useful corrective to the idea that European modernism developed in isolation.

Artlovers Tip

Pair it with Musée Picasso — it complicates the conventional European story of modern art.

★★★★★ Historically important and very Artlovers.

Inside the exhibition

Key Movements

African ArtAvant-GardesModernism

Description

The exhibition examines the decade when objects and artworks from Africa and Oceania became increasingly visible in Paris, intersecting with collectors, dealers, artists and the European avant-garde. It complicates the familiar story of modernism by bringing its non-European sources and colonial context into view.

Artists / context: A historical, cross-cultural exhibition combining African and Oceanic works with the Parisian modernist context of the 1910s and early 1920s.

Exhibition

1913–1923: The Spirit of the Time

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Paris, France

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