And Picasso was right; his crosshatched galaxy of pink nudes, Demoiselles d’Avignon, ranks today as a turning point in art. But at the time, all that flabbergasted Georges Braque could say was ...

Another key influence was African and Polynesian art, which became widely available in Europe around the time Picasso and Braque started their Cubist experiments. Non-Western art offered a ...

Venerated today as a co-inventor of Cubism, which he developed in spirited competition with Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque, Gris is widely celebrated for pioneering a new kind of art.