In
the summer of 1905 Henri Matisse, Pablo Picasso and André Derain among
others threw themselves into pictorial experiments with ferocious
colours and innovative shapes. This became the start of a breathless and
revolutionary period in art history.
In this exhibition we display a selection of highlights from the museum’s collection of French art from 1900-1930.
Rarely exhibited, experimental and provocative
In the exhibition you can see very different works by the same
artists. Many of the artists in the exhibition tried out different
expressions and techniques. Common to the very diverse works is that
they attracted vast attention in their time for their striking
contributions to how modern art ought to be. The critique rained down on
them and some of the artists were accused of daubing.
In the exhibition you can experience works such as Matisse’s papercut Zulma, which is very rarely exhibited.
On of the world’s finest collections
SMK has a unique collection of French art with works by Matisse,
Picasso, Braque, Modigliani and Derain. This sensational collection is
largely the product of engineer and art collector Johannes Rump. During
the 1910’s and in the beginning of the 1920’s he gathered one of the
finest collections of works by Matisse. A collection he generously
donated to the museum in 1928.
