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Hammer Galleries in New York presents Modern Masters: Paris and Beyond exhibition

NEW YORK, NY.- Modern Masters: Paris and Beyond, features over twenty exceptional paintings by Marc Chagall, Fernand Léger, Henri Matisse, Joan Miró, Pablo Picasso and Kees van Dongen, as well as significant sculptures by Jean Dubuffet, Joan Miró, Henri Matisse and Alexander Calder. Including important works from the “années folles” or “crazy years” of 1920’s Paris through the decades following the Second World War, Paris and Beyond traces the development of these artists from their initial avant-garde beginnings through later decades of the 20th century as they moved ‘beyond’ Paris. For the first half of the 20th century, Paris was the undisputed center of the art world, the place where any serious artist had to be. Artists and writers from all over the world flocked there. Van Dongen came to Paris from Holland shortly before the turn of the century, and others followed – Picasso and Miró from Spain, Chagall from Russia and Matisse, Lég