In the decade between 1913 and 1923, objects from Africa and Oceania—masks, sculptures, ceremonial pieces—began arriving in the galleries and studios of Montparnasse, initially classified as ethnographic curiosities and gradually recognized as something else entirely. The dealers Paul Guillaume, Joseph Brummer, and Charles Vignier moved them; Apollinaire wrote about them; Vlaminck, Derain, Matisse, and Picasso absorbed them, their own work changing as a result. This exhibition is now reconstructing that decade, tracing the circuit of objects through landmark exhibitions at the Galerie Levesque in 1913, Lyre et Palette in 1916, the Galerie Devambez in 1919, and the Pavillon de Marsan at the Louvre in 1923. —Elena Clavarino