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Reber, the German collector who lived in an 18th-century estate in Lausanne filled with works by the four “essential” Cubists.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 10, 2025

Even the Cubists saw the emerging Henri Matisse, who had dissolved plane and line in a bath of flat color in such works as “The Red Studio,” as somehow disengaged from radical ideas.

From The New Yorker • Aug. 27, 2018

Although made with contemporary means, Hill’s smeary feminines recall the sharper-edged experiments of Cubists and Futurists.

From Washington Post • Feb. 25, 2016

They commandeered collage and took it places the Cubists never dreamed of.

From New York Times • Jan. 24, 2013

They all three abused the politicians with perfect sympathy; they abused the British drama with perfect sympathy; with no less perfect sympathy they abused the Cubists and the Vorticists and the New Poets.

From The Loudwater Mystery by Jepson, Edgar