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New York’s Museum of Modern Art on Sunday opened the first exhibition in tribute to the pioneering Cubist art of Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque, the greatest art collaboration of the 20th Century. The show, which runs through Jan. 16, goes back to the roots of modern art. Braque, a one-time house painter, was born near Paris and moved there in 1900, and Picasso, a precocious Spanish painter whose first works echoed the Impressionists, moved there in 1904 and met Braque soon after. By 1906 they were inseparable. “We were like mountain climbers roped together,” Braque once wrote, and Picasso recalled that “every evening either I went to Braque’s studio or Braque came to mine because each of us had to see what the other had done during the day.”