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From late Impressionism and early Cubist experimentation, to the inter-war return to figuration, the pieces in this exhibition both epitomize and push the boundaries of the era’s movements. They also demonstrate the aesthetic and social interconnectedness of the great artists over decades. Quai d’Auteuil, an early drawing of Henri Rousseau, demonstrates his intuitive eye for the inherently abstract forms of foliage. Rousseau had given this drawing to the artist Max Weber, an early admirer and friend of the Naïve artist—and a 1921 work on paper by Weber, very simply depicting a woman in a …