If the Kimbell Art Museum's 2999 "Matissi and Picasso" had needed a complement, then "Matisse Picasso," the touring exhibition organized by Tate Modern, the Grand Palais, and the Museum of Modern Art, would surely be it. But it didn't, and it isn't, not really. So what is it?
The answer will have to be comparative, at least as a start.
The Kimbell title, with its conspicuous conjunction, "Matisse and Picasso," suggested a story. Jack and Jill went up the hill And that is just what the show delivered, it four "acts," from 1930 to 1954, with a prelude and a coda too. The curator, Yve-Alan Bois (an admired colleague, I should admit) told how two opposing spirits developed …
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