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John Elderfield, the Modern's chief curator of painting and sculpture, is organizing an exhibition centered on Manet's series of paintings called ''The Execution of Maximilian'' from Oct. 29 through Jan. 29, it will unite all four paintings in the series for the first time in the United States. Mr. Elderfield has borrowed the paintings from the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; the National Gallery of Art in London; the Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek, Copenhagen; and the Städtische Kunsthalle in Mannheim, Germany.  John Elderfield said that the notion of artists working in series, of working with documentation of real events as part of the practice of making paintings and of the collage aesthetic, were all very relevant today. John Elderfield, the Modern's chief curator of painting and sculpture, is organizing an exhibition centered on Manet's series of paintings called ''The Execution of Maximilian.'' This exhibition will unite all four paintings in the series for the first time in the United States. Mr. Elderfield has borrowed the paintings from the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; the National Gallery of Art in London; the Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek, Copenhagen; and the Städtische Kunsthalle in Mannheim, Germany. Not only is the series Manet's most ambitious, but Mr. Elderfield said it also particularly speaks to contemporary issues in art.