“I wish to establish the true history of Cubism whose beginning was not a matter of mere chance, something dependent on a throw of the dice, but clearly linked to that revaluation of all the values of whose absolute necessity no-one in these days can be in any doubt.”

— Albert Gleizes

after 1920, The Epic, From immobile form to mobile form (1925)

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