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What happens when a surrealist makes an addition to another artist’s creation?
Trace the roughly 50-year journey of these elaborate vessels as they traveled from China to France and were extravagantly transformed along the way.
Journey through the long, careful, and beautifully intense process the artist undertakes to transform a tree into an exquisite basket.
Our staff finds whole worlds in the heart of this primary color.
This revised and expanded edition of the Essential Guide features more than three hundred objects that span the breadth of the museum’s esteemed collection. Each work is reproduced in full color and discussed in a brief and lively entry.
The first comprehensive study of these rare, influential objects, documenting a formative moment in the noted photographer’s early career
