Museums - Musée National d'Art Moderne - Centre Georges Pompidou

The African and Oceanic objects of the Musée National d’Art Moderne, formerly in the collections of twentieth-century European artists, are on view on the museum’s fifth floor in the galleries devoted to the birth of cubism and to André Breton. Most notable among them are a Fang statue from the André Derain collection, a Yombe figure formerly the property of Guillaume Apollinaire, and an ex-Alberto Magnelli Kaguru sculpture, as well as Baga, Dogon, Bamana, Dan, Baule, Senufo, Kota, Ambete, Vuvi, Aduma, Galoa, Punu, and Pende objects. The "André Breton Wall," a veritable surrealist curiosity cabinet, is faithfully reproduced with some 260 objects. On it, works by Picabia, Miro, Picasso, and Arp coexist with masks and sculptures from Oceania, Pre-Columbian terracottas, and a wealth of pieces Breton picked up at the Drouot sales and from other sources.