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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. From July 1867 to early 1869, Manet produced the four paintings and one lithograph recording the event. The show will also include five other paintings by Manet that deal with violent deaths, including ''The Dead Christ and the Angels'' from the Metropolitan Museum of Art and ''The Dead Toreador'' from the National Gallery of Art in Washington. Manet's Maximilians Critics believes that the Museum of Modern Art does not pay enough attention to what is up to the minute or cutting edge will have yet another reason to carp this fall. 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.'' It will unite all four paintings in the series for the first time in the United States. The series was Manet's record of the news as he saw it breaking in 1867.