Join the exhibition’s curators Emily Braun and Elizabeth Cowling for a virtual tour of Cubism and the Trompe l’Oeil Tradition, which offers a radically new view of Cubism by demonstrating its engagement with the ageold tradition of trompe l’oeil painting. A selfreferential 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. Along with Cubist paintings, sculptures, and collages, the exhibition presents canonical examples of European and American trompe l’oeil painting from the seventeenth through the nineteenth centuries.

Learn more about the exhibition here: https://www.metmuseum.org/exhibitions...

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.

This exhibition is supported by an indemnity from the Federal Council on the Arts and the Humanities.

We thank the many lenders for their exceptional generosity, with special acknowledgment to the Musée National PicassoParis and the Musée National d’Art Moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris.

This exhibition is a participant in the international Celebration Picasso 1973–2023, which marks the fiftieth anniversary of the artist’s death.

The catalogue is made possible by the Mellon Foundation.

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