Definition:
(noun) - The Gallery Cubists were a party of two: Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque. Art dealer Daniel-Henri Kahnweiler (German, 1884-1979) signed both of them to his newly-opened Galerie Kahnweiler in Paris, just after the artists had begun to develop Early Cubism (also known as Cézannism).After Cézannism, Picasso and Braque developed their mature Cubist styles (first Analytic Cubism, and then Synthetic Cubism), but only exhibited in Galerie Kahnweiler during the years 1908-1914, prior to WWI. Their works shown during this time became known as Gallery Cubism and were only known to a small, select audience. The Gallery Cubists cultivated ambiguity and visual punning to amuse themselves and their Parisian poet pals (such as André Salmon, Guillaume Apollinaire and Max Jacob).