This exhibition tells the story of cultural advances and technical innovation in Paris just after the turn of the twentieth century up to 1925, when the city hosted the International Exhibition of Modern Decorative and Industrial Arts. Not only does it display almost four hundred works by artists working in the city during that period but also examples of fashion, jewellery and industry.

Galleries in the city displayed works by Fauvists, Cubists, Dada and Surrealists as well as Futurists and all are represented in the exhibition alongside fashion accessories, dresses, perfumes and industrial products including a Peugeot car and an airplane.

Henri Matisse ‘Marguerite lisant’ (1906)

Pablo Picasso ‘Buste de femme’ (1907)

Georges Braque ‘Tête de femme’ (1909)

Pablo Picasso ‘La Femme au pot de moutarde’ (1910)

Gino Severini ‘La Dance du pan-pan au Monico’ (1910 – 11)

Marcel Duchamp ‘Roue de bicyclette’ (1913 – 64)

Jeanne Hébuterne ‘Autoportrait’ (1916)

Pablo Picasso ‘Portrait d’Olga dans un fauteuil’ (1918)

Amedeo Modigliani ‘Maternité’ (1919)

Fernand Léger ‘ L’homme à la pipe’ (1920)

Chaim Soutine ‘La fiancée’ (1923)

Paul Poiret ‘Minaret’ dress (1911)

Jeanne Lanvin ‘Robe Lesbos’ (c.1925)

Deperdussin airplane (1911)

Peugeot type BP1 (1913)