Thursday, June 18, 2015

Cézanne and the Modern: Masterpieces of European Art from the Pearlman Collection: Cézanne , Degas, van Gogh, Soutine and Modigliani


 Venues

Ashmolean Museum of Art and Archaeology, University of Oxford, Oxford, England (March 13 – June 22, 2014), 
 Musée Granet, Aix - e n - Provence, France (July 11 – October 5, 2014)
High Museum of Art,  Atlanta, USA (October 25, 2014 – January 11, 2015). 
Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, Canada (February 14 – May 18, 2015),   
 Princeton  University Art Museum, Princeton, N.J. (Sept ember 12, 2015 – January 3, 2016).

Cézanne and the Modern: Masterpieces of  European Art from the Pearlman Collection is a major travelling exhibition  featuring an exceptional collection of  modernist works by European masters. Totaling 50 artworks, this exhibition includes paintings by  Paul  Cézanne ,  Edgar Degas,  Édouard Manet  Amedeo Modigliani, Camille Pissarro , Chaïm Soutine  and Vincent van Gogh, as well as sculpture by Paul Gauguin, Wilhelm Lembruck and Jacques Lipchitz . The jewel of the  exhibition is an astonishing group of 24 works by Paul Cézanne  that covers his entire career as an  artist ,  including six oils — such as the major 



Paul Cézanne,  Mont Sainte - Victoire (La Montagne Sainte - Victoire) , c. 1904 - 06, oil on canvas, The Henry and Rose  Pearlman Foundation, on long - term loan to the Princeton University Art Museum 


Mont Sainte - Victoire  (1904 – 06); two drawings; and sixteen  watercolours  which constitute one of  the finest and best - preserved groups of Cézanne’s watercolours in the world . 

This exceptional  art collection  was built by  Henry and Rose Pearlman  during the 1940s and 19 50s. Henry Pearlman (1895  – 1974) was a New York City business man who passionately collected European avant - garde art  since 1945 until the end of his life.  Central to the Pearlman’s collecting interests were two artists, the great  expressionist painter Chaim Soutine, of whose work Henry Pearlman was one of the earliest American collectors,  and, most importantly, Paul Cézanne ( 1895 – 1974) . Organized by  the Princeton University Art Museum in cooperation with the Henry and Rose Pearlman Foundation ,  this exhibition marks the first time in over 50 years that the Pearlman Collection  has traveled as a collection,.

 Other key artworks in the exhibition include:   



 Edgar Degas,  After the Bath, Woman Drying Herself (Après le bain, femme s’essuyant) , 1890s, oil on canvas, The  Henry and Rose Pearlman Foundation, on long - term loan to the Princeton University Art Museum  


Degas’  After the Bath, Woman Drying Herself , from the 1890s,  a  magnificent example of how the artist’s radical vision transformed the depiction of the female body in the late 19th century;   





Vincent van Gogh,  Tarascon Stagecoach (La diligence de Tarascon),  1888, oil on canvas, The Henry and Rose Pearlman  Foundation, on long - term loan to the Princeton  University Art Museum 


Van Gogh’s  La diligence de Tarascon (Tarascon Stagecoach)  (1888), a colourful and unusual composition  that reveals the artist’s willingness to paint unconventional views and find beauty in the  everyday ;



Amedeo Modigliani (Italian, 1884–1920)

Jean Cocteau, 1916

Oil on canvas

100.4 x 81.3 cm. (39 1/2 x 32 in.)


Signed upper left: Modigliani

and  Modigliani’s monumental portrait  Jean Cocteau  (1916), which is one of the artist’s most important paintings. 

 More images from the collection:



Édouard Manet (French, 1832–1883)
Young Woman in a Round Hat, ca. 1877–79
Oil on canvas
54.6 x 45.1 cm. (21 1/2 x 17 3/4 in.)
Signed lower right: Manet

Paul Cézanne (French, 1839–1906)

Standing Bather Seen from Behind, ca. 1879-82

Oil on canvas


27.0 x 17.1 cm. (10 5/8 x 6 3/4 in.)






Edgar Degas (French, 1834–1917)

The Morning Bath, ca. 1886

Pastel on buff wove paper

67 x 52.1 cm. (26 3/8 x 20 1/2 in.)


Signed lower left: Degas

Pierre Auguste Renoir (French, 1841–1919)

Nu Dans un Paysage, ca. 1887

Oil on canvas

21 x 31.7 cm. (8 1/4 x 12 1/2 in.)


Signed lower right: Renoir

Paul Cézanne (French, 1839–1906)

Three Pears, ca. 1888–90

Watercolor, gouache, and graphite on cream laid paper


24.2 x 31 cm. (9 1/2 x 12 3/16 in.)




Paul Cézanne (French, 1839–1906)

Cistern in the Park of Chateau Noir, ca. 1900

Oil on canvas


74.3 x 61.0 cm. (29 1/4 x 24 in.)




Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec (French, 1864–1901)

Messaline, 1900-01

oil on canvas

97.8 x 78.7 cm. (38 1/2 x 31 in.)

Signed lower left with stamped monogram TL

Chaïm Soutine (French, 1893-1943)

Chemin de la Fontaine des Tins at Céret, ca. 1920

Oil on canvas

81.3 x 78.7 cm. (32 x 31 in.)


Signed lower right: Soutine

 
 
Chaïm Soutine (French, 1893-1943)

View of Céret, ca. 1921–22

Oil on canvas

74 x 85.7 cm. (29 1/8 x 33 3/4 in.)


Signed lower right: Soutine

Chaïm Soutine (French, 1893-1943)

Steeple of Saint-Pierre at Céret, ca. 1922

Oil on canvas

81.3 x 64.8 cm. (32 x 25 1/2 in.)


Signed lower right: Soutine


 







Chaïm Soutine (French, 1893-1943)

Hanging Turkey, ca. 1925

Oil on canvas

95.9 x 72.1 cm. (37 3/4 x 28 3/8 in.)


Signed lower left: Soutine


Chaïm Soutine (French, 1893-1943)

Portrait of a Woman, 1929

Oil on canvas

80.6 x 60.3 cm. (31 3/4 x 23 3/4 in.)


Signed lower right: Soutine