🏛️ Centre Pompidou

Yet in spite of these outstanding acquisitions, for many the Cassou years (which ended in 1965) were somewhat disappointing. The weak links in the collections are often pointed out: foreign art, American in particular, geometric abstraction and Surrealism. Contemporary art was also poorly represented, as acquisitions were dependent on another administration, the Bureau des Travaux d’Art, though its choices could be guided by the museum. The director must however be credited with an active policy of temporary exhibitions, of which the pinnacle was "Les Sources du XX e siècle. Les arts en Europe de 1884 à 1914" [The Sources of the 20th Century. The Arts in Europe from 1884 to 1914], the model for the multidisciplinary exhibitions of general assessment that were to be the hallmark of Centre Pompidou in its early years.