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CUBISM AND THE TROMPE L’OEIL TRADITION

OCTOBER 20, 2022 – JANUARY 22, 2023

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Overview

This exhibition will offer a radically new view of Cubism by demonstrating its
engagement with the age-old tradition of trompe l’oeil painting. A
self-referential art concerned with the nature of representation, trompe l’oeil
(“deceive the eye”) beguiles the viewer with perceptual and psychological games
that complicate definitions of truth and fiction. Many qualities seen as
distinct to Cubism were, in fact, exploited by trompe l’oeil specialists over
the centuries: the emphatically flat picture plane; the invasion of the “real”
world into the pictorial one; the mimicry of materials; and the inclusion of new
print media and advertising replete with coded references to artist, patron, and
current events. In a contest of creative one-upmanship, the Cubists Georges
Braque, Juan Gris, and Pablo Picasso both parodied classic trompe l’oeil devices
and invented new ways of confounding the viewer. Along with Cubist paintings,
sculptures, and collages, the exhibition will present canonical examples of
European and American trompe l’oeil painting from the seventeenth through the
nineteenth centuries. 



The exhibition is made possible by the Barrie A. and Deedee Wigmore Foundation.

Additional support is provided by the Gail and Parker Gilbert Fund, the Eugene
V. and Clare E. Thaw Charitable Trust, an Anonymous Foundation, the Diane W. and
James E. Burke Fund, and the Janice H. Levin Fund.

The catalogue is made possible by the Mellon Foundation.

Marquee: L-R: Georges Braque (French, 1882–1963). Violin and Sheet Music: “Petit
Oiseau,” early 1913. Oil and charcoal on canvas. The Metropolitan Museum of Art,
New York, Promised Gift from the Leonard A. Lauder Collection. © 2022 Artists
Rights Society (ARS), New York / ADAGP, Paris; William Michael Harnett
(American, (1848–1892). Still Life—Violin and Music, 1888. Oil on canvas, 40 x
30 in. (101.6 x 76.2 cm). The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Catharine
Lorillard Wolfe Collection, Wolfe Fund (63.85)

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