Lot 91
Pavel Tchelitchew ("P. Tchelitchew") -- Amedee Ozenfant ("Z. Ozenfant") -- Jacques Lipchitz ("Lipchitz") -- Matta Echaurren ("Matta") -- Max Ernst ("Max Ernst") -- Piet Mondrian ("Piet Mondrian") -- Eugene Berman ("Eugene Berman") -- Andre Breton ("Andre Breton") -- Marc Chagall ("Marc Chagall") -- Ossip Zadkine ("O. Zadkine") -- Andre Masson ("Andre Masson") -- Fernand Leger ("Fleger") -- Kurt Seligmann ("K Seligmann") -- Yves Tanguy ("Yves Tanguy")
The Artists In Exile exhibition opened on 3 March 1942 at the Pierre Matisse Gallery in the Fuller Building in New York City, the eponymous gallery of Henri Matisse's youngest son. The works mounted in the show represented the cutting edge European avant-garde, and perhaps more significantly, were each created by artists who had escaped the increasing fascism and totalitarianism in Europe. The works represented many of the modern styles that had been classified as "Degenerate Art," including Dada, Surrealism, Cubism, and De Stijl. Many of the artists would go on to make significant postwar contributions in their fields.