American Art from the Thyssen Collection
*Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza* Curators: Paloma Alarcó and Alba Campo Rosillo Thomas Cole Cross at Sunset, ca. 1848 Oil on canvas. Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza George Inness Morning, ca. 1878 Oil on canvas mounted on cardboard. Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza In the final event of a year that has paid tribute to Baron Hans Heinrich Thyssen-Bornemisza (1921-2002), marking the 100th anniversary of his birth, the Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza is presenting an exhibition which brings together the magnificent collection of American art assembled by the Baron over m... read more
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"The Form of Freedom. International Abstraction after 1945
Museum Barberini until 09/25/2022 With the end of the Second World War, a new chapter was opened in western art: figuration was "out", abstraction was "in". "Abstract Expressionism" in particular became a form of expression of a "free world", which began its triumphant march from the USA with artists such as Jackson Pollock, Willem de Kooning and Franz Kline, while "Informel" painting, which was also abstract, had its center in Paris . The Barberini Museum in Potsdam now proves that these two most important trends of the post-war period were by no means as uninfluenced by one anoth... read more
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The Renaissance in the North: New Prints and Perspectives
Daniel Hopfer and Hieronymus Hopfer, *Emperor Charles V*, 1520 (1521?), etching (iron) with open biting and unique contemporary hand-coloring in green, red, yellow, pink and brown, National Gallery of Art, Washington, Purchased as the Gift of Ladislaus and Beatrix von Hoffmann Exhibition Announcement Order Press Images Exhibition Checklist (PDF 190 KB) Press Audio/Video: *Press Event: Introduction to the Show: The Renaissance in the North: New Prints and Perspectives* Press Contact Isabella Bulkeley phone: (202) 842-6864 e-mail: i-bulkeley@nga.gov Washington, DC—Printmaking fl... read more
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Dalí / El Greco
*Salvador Dalí (1904–1989), Christ of St John of the Cross, 1951, oil on canvas © CSG CIC Glasgow Museums Collection* *From July 9 to December 4, 2022, The Auckland Project in the U.K*. will unite two Spanish masterpieces from British collections at the Spanish Gallery. Acquired by Glasgow city in 1952 directly from the artist, Salvador Dalí’s *Christ of St John of the Cross *is one of the most celebrated and reproduced paintings of the 20th century. It will be exhibited alongside El Greco’s *Christ on the Cross*, which went on public display for the first time after more than ... read more
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We the People: The Radical Notion of Democracy
* Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art* *July 2, 2022 to January 2, 2023* Jacob Lawrence,. . . is life so dear or peace so sweet as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery?—Patrick Henry,1775 , Panel 1, 1955, from Struggle: From the History of the American People, 1954–56, egg tempera on hardboard. Collection of Harvey and Harvey-Ann Ross. © 2022 The Jacob and Gwendolyn Knight Lawrence Foundation, Seattle / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. Gilbert Stuart, George Washington [The Constable-Hamilton Portrait], 1797, oil on canvas, 59 x46 3/4 x 4 1/2 in. Crystal B... read more
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The Synchromists
*From 27 June to 1 November 2022* Curator: Emily Schuchardt Navratil The *Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisz*a is presenting a small-format exhibition devoted to the first American abstract art movement, Synchromism, which means “with colour” as symphony means “with sound”. The movement was founded by the American artists Morgan Russell (1886-1953) and Stanton Macdonald-Wright (1890-1973) who were living in Paris when they presented their work to the public under this name. At the height of Futurism, Cubism and Simultaneism, Russell and Macdonald-Wright focused on the use of colour t... read more
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Treasures of American Art: The Cynthia & Heywood Fralin Collection,
* The Taubman Museum of Art is pleased to present Treasures of American Art: The Cynthia & Heywood Fralin Collection, on view now through Sept. 4, 2022.* The exhibition features 93 works from 64 American artists spanning the period of 1861 to 1975, collected over a period of 25 years by Cynthia and Heywood Fralin. It marks the first time all of the works will be on view together. Robert Henri, Johnny Patton, n.d. Oil on canvas, 24 x 20 inches. “The Fralins are among the nation’s most ambitious and discerning collectors of late 19th-century to mid- 20th-century American art,” no... read more
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The June 9 auction of Old Masters | New Perspectives: Masterworks From The Alana Collection at Christie’s New York Orazio Gentileschi, The Madonna and Child. Oil on panel, 36 x 28 1⁄4 in. (91.4 x 73 cm.). Estimate: $4,000,000-6,000,000. © Christie's Images Ltd 2022. Pieter Brueghel The Younger, The Tower of Babel, oil on panel. Estimate: $1,500,000 – 2,500,000. © Christie's Images Ltd 2022. MASTERWORKS FROM THE ALANA COLLECTION FRA GIOVANNI DA FIESOLE, CALLED FRA ANGELICO (VICCHIO C. 1395-1455 ROME) Saint Dominic and the Stigmatization of Saint Francis tempera and gold on panel P... read more
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The June 9 auction of Old Masters | New Perspectives: Masterworks From The Alana Collection at Christie’s New York
Orazio Gentileschi, The Madonna and Child. Oil on panel, 36 x 28 1⁄4 in. (91.4 x 73 cm.). Estimate: $4,000,000-6,000,000. © Christie's Images Ltd 2022. Pieter Brueghel The Younger, The Tower of Babel, oil on panel. Estimate: $1,500,000 – 2,500,000. © Christie's Images Ltd 2022. MASTERWORKS FROM THE ALANA COLLECTION FRA GIOVANNI DA FIESOLE, CALLED FRA ANGELICO (VICCHIO C. 1395-1455 ROME) Saint Dominic and the Stigmatization of Saint Francis tempera and gold on panel Price realized: $4,740,000 The June 9 auction of Old Masters | New Perspectives: Masterworks From The Alana C... read more
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Christie’s 20th / 21st Century: London / Paris Evening Sales on 28 June
Claude Monet’s *Waterloo Bridge, effet de brume* will be a highlight of Christie’s 20/21 London to Paris sale series, offered in the 20th / 21st Century: London Evening Sale on 28 June. Depicting the Thames under an effervescent sunlit haze, *Waterloo Bridge, effet de brume* (1904, estimate: in the region of £24 million) comes from Monet’s monumental, landmark series entitled *Vues du Londres (Views of London), *which celebrates London’s unique character, architecture and ever-changing atmosphere*. *The artist focused on the play of light across the Thames through three princip... read more
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Serra/Seurat. Drawings
*Museo Guggenheim Bilbao* *June 9 – September 6, 2022 * Read the report: "Guggenheim Bilbao: what is the relationship between contemporary American sculptor Richard Serra and neo-impressionist French painter Georges Seurat?" https://judithbenhamouhuet.com/guggen... Curators: Lucía Agirre, curator, Museo Guggenheim Bilbao, and Judith Benhamou, independent curator and art writer - Especially important in Seurat’s drawings is the handmade paper he uses, which he ‘brings to life’ by allowing it to absorb exactly the right amount of crayon to create the lights, volumes, and contrasts... read more
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Golden Boy Gustav Klimt. Inspired by Van Gogh, Rodin, Matisse…
*Gustav Klimt is known throughout the world for his paintings featuring gold and decorative ornaments, his universal symbolism and his pictures of strong women. But where did he find inspiration?* *The exhibition Golden Boy Gustav Klimt. Inspired by Van Gogh, Rodin, Matisse… offers visitors a remarkable opportunity to view Klimt’s art alongside work by the numerous artists who inspired him.* *Klimt’s oeuvre is rarely offered on loan, but this autumn, masterpieces from all over the world will be travelling to Amsterdam. This is the largest retrospective of Klimt’s work ever to be o... read more
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100 Great British Drawings
*The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Garden* *June 18 through Sept. 5, 2022* Samuel Palmer (1805–1881), Lonely Tower, ca. 1881. Opaque watercolor over traces of graphite on board, 7 x 9 5/8 in. Gilbert Davis Collection, The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens. “100 Great British Drawings,” a major exhibition at The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens, will trace the practice of drawing in Britain from the 17th through the mid-20th century, spotlighting The Huntington’s important collection of more than 12,000 works that represent t... read more
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Andrew Wyeth: Life and Death
*Colby College Museum of Art* * through October 16, 2022* John Olson's Funeral, 1945. Watercolor on paper. © 2021 Andrew Wyeth/Artists Rights Society (ARS). New Britain Museum of American Art, Charles F. Smith Fund, 1945.26 *Life and Death* shows the artist engaging with his own mortality A new exhibition in Waterville, Maine, at the Colby College Museum of Art, *Andrew Wyeth: Life and Death*, offers the first public presentation of a recently rediscovered series of drawings in which the artist Andrew Wyeth (1917-2009) imagined his own funeral. Created in the early 1990s, the dra... read more
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The Chrysler Museum of Art in Norfolk, VA., has been gifted 40 works of art from the Macon and Joan Brock Collection of American art
John Singer Sargent (American, 1856 – 1925) Olives at Corfu, 1909. Oil on canvas. Promised Gift of the Macon and Joan Brock Collection to the Chrysler Museum of Art Winslow Homer (American, 1836 – 1910) Portrait of Elizabeth Loring Grant, 1866. Charcoal, chalk and pencil on paper. Promised Gift of the Macon and Joan Brock Collection to the Chrysler Museum of Art The Chrysler Museum of Art in Norfolk, VA., just announced Hampton Roads Philanthropist Joan Brock has made a $34 million gift to the museum, including 40 works of art from the Macon and Joan Brock Collection and two posi... read more
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Golden Boy Gustav Klimt. Inspired by Van Gogh, Rodin, Matisse...
* Van Gogh Museum* *7 October 2022 till 8 January 2023* [image: 1 PB KLIMT Judith.jpg] Gustav Klimt: *Judith*, 1901, Öl und Blattgold auf Leinwand, 84 × 42 cm, Belvedere, Vienna. Photo: Belvedere, Vienna, Johannes Stoll *Gustav Klimt is known throughout the world for his paintings featuring gold and decorative ornaments, his universal symbolism and his pictures of strong women. But where did he find inspiration?* *The exhibition Golden Boy Gustav Klimt. Inspired by Van Gogh, Rodin, Matisse… offers visitors a remarkable opportunity to view Klimt’s art alongside work by the numero... read more
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The Woman in White: Joanna Hiffernan and James McNeill Whistler
*National Gallery of Art, in Washington, DC, * *July 3–October 10,* 2022 James McNeill Whistler, Symphony in White, No. 1: The White Girl, 1861–1863, 1872, oil on canvas, overall: 213 x 107.9 cm (83 7/8 x 42 1/2 in.) National Gallery of Art, Washington, Harris Whittemore Collection When James McNeill Whistler (1834–1903) and Joanna Hiffernan (1839–1886) met in 1860, they began a close professional and personal relationship that lasted for over two decades. Featuring some 60 works including paintings, drawings, and prints, The Woman in White: Joanna Hiffernan and James McNeill Whis... read more
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ERNST WILHELM NAY Retrospective
The Hamburger Kunsthalle is dedicating a solo exhibition to Ernst Wilhelm Nay (1902–1968), the first retrospective in many years of the work of one of the leading painters of the twentieth century. Nay’s vibrant and colourful paintings form a bridge between art before and after the Second World War. His art merges elements of Expressionism, abstraction and gestural painting after 1945 and links German and international modernism. Based on around 120 paintings, watercolours and drawings, the show explores all phases of Nay’s complex oeuvre. The works span a period of fifty years, ... read more
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The Morgan Stanley Exhibition: Edvard Munch. Masterpieces from Bergen
*The Courtauld Gallery* *27 May – 4 September 2022* A collection of significant paintings by Edvard Munch (1863-1944) have gone on show together for the first time in the UK in a new exhibition at The Courtauld. Also see newly edited: *Edvard Munch in Dialogue * The Morgan Stanley Exhibition: *Edvard Munch. Masterpieces from Bergen* showcases 18 seminal works by Munch on loan from KODE Art Museums in Bergen, Norway – home to one of the most important Munch collections in the world. The exhibition follows The Morgan Stanley Exhibition: *Van Gogh. Self-Portraits*, one of the most h... read more
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The Fantasy of the Middle Ages
*Getty Center, Los Angeles* *June 21 – September 11, 2022* Saint George and the Dragon, about 1450– 55, Master of Guillebert de Mets (Flemish, active about 1410–50). Tempera colors, gold leaf, and ink on parchment, 19.4 × 14 cm (7 5/8 × 5 1/2 in.). Getty Museum, Ms. 2 (84.ML.67), fol. 18vStolzenfels Castle, 1878 C. Hertel (German, active 1860s–1870s). Albumen silver print 9.8 × 14.8 cm (3 7/8 × 5 13/16 in.) Getty Museum 84.XP.1156.5Fairies in a Bird’s Nest, 1860. John Anster Fitzgerald (English, 1823–1906). Oil on canvas, 40.6 × 48.3 cm (16 × 19 in.) Fine Arts Museums of San Franc... read more
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At the Dawn of a New Age: Early Twentieth-Century American Modernism
*Whitney Museum of American Art* *May 7, 2022, to March 2023* Marguerite Zorach, Landscape with Figures, c. 1913. Gouache and watercolor on silk, 11 1/2 × 18 in. (29.2 × 45.7 cm. Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; purchase, with funds from Mary and Garrett Moran T.2022.201 Opening this weekend, *At the Dawn of a New Age: Early Twentieth-Century American Modernism*, an exhibition of over sixty works by more than forty-five artists that highlights the complexity of American art produced between 1900 and 1930, at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York. The exhibition ... read more
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Love Life -David Hockney Drawings 1963-1977
* The Holburne Museum* *27 May to 18 September 2022* [image: A line drawing by David Hockney featrung a book and a bottle of water on a table] *David Hockney, Vichy Water and ‘Howards End,’ Carennac, 1970 © David Hockney* *A sumptuous collection of rarely seen drawings by one of our most popular and recognisable artists goes on display in Bath this summer* *In 2017, prior to the opening of a retrospective exhibition at the Centre Pompidou in Paris, David Hockney (b.1937) painted the words ‘Love Life’ on the final wall of the show. Explaining his actions, he said: **“I love my w... read more
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Rosa Bonheur
*Museum of Fine Arts, * *18 May-18 September 2022* *Musée d'Orsay, * *October 18, 2022-January 15, 2023* *On the occasion of the bicentenary of Rosa Bonheur's birth in Bordeaux, the Musée des Beaux-Arts in her hometown and the Musée d'Orsay, Paris, are organizing a major retrospective of her work. The Château de Rosa Bonheur in Thomery (Seine-et-Marne), where the artist lived for nearly half a century, as well as the Departmental Museum of Barbizon painters are the exceptional partners of the exhibition. The bicentenary of Rosa Bonheur's birth is included in the calendar of F... read more
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Christie's 26 May | Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre Picasso, Monet
- Pablo Picasso (1881-1973) *Buste d’homme dans un cadre* signed ‘Picasso’ (upper left); dated ‘29.3.69’ (on the reverse) oil on canvas 92 x 73 cm. (36 ¼ x 28 ¾ in.) Painted in Mougins on 29 March 1969 Estimate on Request Christie’s is pleased has announced Pablo Picasso’s *Buste d’homme dans un cadre* from the Estate of Sir Sean Connery, as a leading highlight of the 20 th and 21st Century Art Evening Sale to take place on 26 May at the Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre (estimate on request; in the region of HK$150 million/ US$19 million). Offered fresh to the m... read more
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Walter Sickert
Tate Britain 28 April – 18 September 2022 [image: Walter Richard Sickert Brighton Pierrots 1915. Tate] Walter Richard Sickert *Brighton Pierrots *1915. Tate Tate Britain has opened London’s biggest retrospective of Walter Sickert (1860-1942) in almost 30 years. A master of self-invention and theatricality, Sickert took a radically modern approach to painting in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, transforming how everyday life was captured on canvas. This major exhibition features over 150 of his works from over 70 public and private collections, from scenes of rowdy music ... read more
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Alex Katz
*Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza* *11 June to 11 September 2022* Curator: Guillermo Solana For the first time in Spain the Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza is presenting a retrospective on the American painter Alex Katz (born New York, 1927), one of the most important figures in 20th-century American art who remains active today, aged ninety-four. The exhibition is curated by the museum’s artistic director Guillermo Solana and has benefited from the participation of the artist himself, who has closely followed the project’s development. Brought together for this event are 35 la... read more
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At First Light: Two Centuries of Artists in Maine
*Bowdoin College Museum of Art* *June 25 to November 6, 2022* The Family Evening , oil on canvas, ca. 1924, by Marguerite Zorach, American, 1887 – 1968. Gift of Dahlov Ipcar and Tessim Zorach, Bowdoin College Museum of Art, Brunswick, Maine .Wabanaki Birchbark Covered Box , 1834, birchbark and split spruce root, Ambroise St. Aubin family, known as the Bear Family Bowdoin College Museum of Art, Brunswick, MaineSunlight on the Coast , 1890, oil on canvas by Winslow Homer, American, 1836 - 1910. Tol e do Museum of Art, Gift of Edward Drummond Libbe Abraham Hanson , ca. 1828, oil o... read more
Art History News2 months ago
Picasso, Chagall, Miró: La Belle Époque on Paper
Why this era continues to fascinate contemporary audiences A glimpse into the important single-owner collection presented at Freeman's this May. This May marks the first public appearance of an important collection of artworks from a private New York family. The family’s interest in major European artists of the late 19th and early 20th centuries was piqued through contact with Herman C. Goldsmith, the reputable New York dealer and close friend of the collectors. Most of the works were directly purchased from the New York socialite and lovingly kept in their Manhattan apartment,... read more
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The EY Exhibition: Cezanne
*Tate Modern* *5 October 2022 – 12 March 2023* Paul Cezanne. The Basket of Apples, c. 1893. The Art Institute of Chicago, Helen Birch Bartlett Memorial Collection. In autumn 2022, Tate Modern will present a once-in-a-generation exhibition of paintings, watercolours and drawings by Paul Cezanne (1839-1906). Famously referred to as the “greatest of us all” by Claude Monet, Cezanne remains a pivotal figure in modern painting who gave license to generations of artists to break the rules. Created amid a rapidly accelerating world, his works focus on the local and the everyday, conce... read more
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Surrealism Beyond Borders
*Eyal Ofer Galleries* *24 February 2022 – 29 August 2022* [image: Leonora Carrington Self-portrait c.1937–38. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, The Pierre and Maria-Gaetana Matisse Collection, 2002 © 2021 Estate of Leonora Carrington / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. Image © Metropolitan Museum of Art.] Leonora Carrington Self-portrait c.1937–38. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, The Pierre and Maria-Gaetana Matisse Collection, 2002 © 2021 Estate of Leonora Carrington / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. Image © Metropolitan Museum of Art. Surrealis... read more
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Georgia O’Keeffe, Photographer
* Denver Art Museum* *July 3 through November 6, 2022* The Denver Art Museum (DAM) will bring a trove of newly identified photographs by groundbreaking artist Georgia O’Keeffe to Colorado in 2022 in an exhibition organized by the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston (MFAH) with the collaboration of the Georgia O’Keeffe Museum, Santa Fe. [image: Black and white photograph of a Jimsonweed flower] Georgia O'Keeffe, *Jimsonweed (Datura stramonium)*, 1964–68, black-and-white Polaroid, Georgia O’Keeffe Museum, Santa Fe. © Georgia O’Keeffe Museum. *Georgia O’Keeffe, Photographer*, reveals a new... read more
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'Annibale Carracci. The frescoes from the Herrera Chapel'
*Museo del Prado, * * 8th March to 12th June 2022* In the first years of the 17th century, the Bolognese artist Annibale Carracci made a commitment with the noble Spanish banker Juan Enríquez de Herrera to paint a fresco in the chapel of his family, founded by Diego de Herrera, in the church of San Giacomo degli Spagnoli in Rome. The artist conceived the whole work, dedicated to the Franciscan saint Saint Didacus of Alcalà, and began the design of all the preparatory panels. Due to an illness, from 1605 onwards the project had to be delegated to Francesco Albani. During the... read more
