Bainbridge Arts & Crafts presents the art history lecture “Artists in Paris before the Great War” at 6:30 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 10 in the Bainbridge Island Museum of Art auditorium.

Where but on the Left Bank would Modernism, Cubism and Surrealism collide? Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse, Marcel Duchamp, Henri Rousseau, and Salvador Dali were all in Paris on the cusp of World War I.

Artist, art instructor and art historian Beth Moga will discuss these five iconic boundary-pushers both individually and in the context of their combined presence in an extraordinary city at a singular point in time.

Tickets are $10 at the door or $7 in advance at BAC or avantgarde.brownpapertickets.com.