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Following the ascent of abstraction in the early twentieth century, international Surrealist and Expressionist tendencies brought renewed attention to the human condition on personal, social, and existential levels. The period between the two world wars is notable for a resurgence of figurative painting and sculpture in a wide variety of styles. In conjunction with the Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum鈥檚 exhibition of still lifes by Georges Braque from 1928 to 1945, this selection of paintings, sculptures, and works on paper from the Museum鈥檚 permanent collection offers a corollary probing of the meaning of the human face and figure by artists from France, Germany, Spain, Italy, and elsewhere in Europe who were working in the same period. Among the artists represented are Pablo Picasso, Paul Klee, Max Beckmann, Joan Mir贸, Fernand L茅ger, Wyndham Lewis, Georges Rouault, and Henry Moore. A sizable group of rarely seen sculptures will join well-known paintings to offer the most complete view yet offered to the public of the Museum鈥檚 collection in this period.