French Impressionism: Masterpieces from the Ordrupgaard Collection
*National Gallery Prague, Kinsky Palace *
*29.6.2019 - 13.10.2019*
Monet “is nothing but an eye – but what an eye!”. That is how Paul Cézanne
appreciated his colleague Claude Monet, who sought to capture an immediate
impression in a given moment in his paintings. For him and other
Impressionists, a personal experience from the nature or city and plein-air
painting were important. The artworks full of light and colours will be
shown at an exhibition, which will present a unique collection of French
art from the Ordrupgaard Museumin Denmark.
The display will especially show Claude Mo... more »
Sotheby’s London on July 3rd Old Master sale
On 3 July, Sotheby’s will bring to auction
a newly-discovered painting of Olimpia Pamphilj by Spanish master, Diego
Velázquez. Lost for almost three centuries, this captivating portrait once
formed part of the illustrious collection of Don Gaspar Mendez de Haro y
Guzman, 7th Marques del Carpio - one of the greatest patrons and
collectors of arts in 17th-century Italy. Last recorded in 1724,
it subsequently disappeared without trace. The whereabouts of the
painting remained completely unknown until one day, an unattributed
work, sold in the 1... more »
Marsden Hartley Retrospective
*Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebaek, Denmark*
*September 19, 2019 to January 19, 2020*
Marsden Hartley, Summer Clouds and Flowers, 1942. Brooklyn Museum.*artist's
estate*
Marsden Hartley, Painting No. 50, 1914–15, oil on canvas, 47 x 47 in.
(119.4 x 119.4 cm), Terra Foundation for American Art, Daniel J. Terra
Collection, 1999.61
Hailed as "America’s first great modern painter of the 20th century" and
"one of the most intriguing art historical subjects of all time", Marsden
Hartley remains relatively unknown to a European audience. This fall, *Louisiana
Museum of Modern Ar... more »
Monet: Impression Sunrise
*National Gallery of Australia*
*7 June – 1 September 2019 *
Featuring Claude Monet’s pioneering painting *Impression, Soleil levant
(Impression, Sunrise)* 1872, from which Impressionism takes its name, this
exclusive exhibition brings together works from the impressionist master
and other significant artists to examine the founding of an art movement—a
defining moment in art history.
*Impression, Soleil levant*, which rarely leaves the museum walls in Paris,
will be coming to a newly designed exhibition space at the NGA this winter,
along with some forty impressionist and relate... more »
From the Rooftops: John Sloan and the Art of a New Urban Space
*The Hyde Collection, Glens Falls, NY 12801*
*June 15 – September 15, 2019*
John Sloan, *A Roof in Chelsea, New York*, c. 1941/51, tempera underpaint
with oil-varnish glaze and wax finish on composition board, 21 1/8 x 26
1/16 inches. Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, purchased through the
Julia L. Whittier Fund. P.946.12.2.
The Ashcan School painter John Sloan (1871–1951) was preoccupied with the
New York City rooftop perhaps more than any other American artist in the
first half of the twentieth century. This setting factors in some of his
most iconic and celebrated wo... more »
Rembrandt’s Mark
* Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden (SKD)*
* 14/06/2019—15/09/2019 *
2019 marks 350 years since Rembrandt’s death. The Staatliche
Kunstsammlungen Dresden (SKD), which hold one of the most significant
collections of his paintings, drawings and prints, are celebrating the
artist at this occasion with a large exhibition of his works. “Rembrandt’s
Mark” centres around the graphic artist and draughtsman and takes a look at
an artist who has been studied by artists more than any other.
Rembrandt van Rijn, Selbstbildnis mit aufgerissenen Augen, 1630.
Kupferstich-Kabinett © SKD, Photo:... more »
Francis Bacon Couplings
GagosianJune 6–August 3, 2019*The moment a number of figures become
involved, you immediately come on to the storytelling aspect of the
relationships between figures. And that immediately sets up a kind of
narrative. I always hope to be able to make a great number of figures
without a narrative.*
—Francis Bacon
Gagosian is pleased to present *Couplings*, an exhibition of Francis
Bacon’s double-figure paintings.
Bacon’s disturbing images—his portrayals of friends and fellow artists, and
the deformations and stylistic distortions of classical subjects—radically
altered the genre of fig... more »
George Miller and American Lithography
[image: “George Miller and American Lithography” at the Palmer Museum of
Art]
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“Steel Valley,” 1936, Louis Lozowick, Lithograph, 9 3/8 x 13 ⅜ inches.
(Gift of Steven and Stephanie Wasser, 2017.74. Printed by George C. Miller,
published by Associated American Artists.)
The Palmer Museum of Art at Penn State will be hosting “George Miller and
American Lithography,” an exhibition highlighting George Miller’s
influential works and the role he played in making fine art lithography an
accessible medium in the early years of the 20th century. The exhibition
opens on June... more »
Modern Movement: Figurative Works by Arthur Bowen Davies
*Ogunquit Museum of Art , Maine *
*through July 1*
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Arthur Bowen Davies (1862-1928) Star in the North, n.d. Oil on canvas 8 ⅛ x
20 ⅛ in.
Arthur Bowen Davies (1862-1928) Sweet Ariel Clouds, n.d.
Arthur Bowen Davies (1862-1928) Four Dancing Figures, 1924.
Now through July 11, '*Modern Movement: Figurative Works by Arthur Bowen
Davies*' is on view at the Ogunquit Museum of Art in Maine.
Arthur Bowen Davies began to sketch and paint images of dancers in the
mid-1890s and would dwell on that subject until the end of his
career. Modern Movement suggests not o... more »
Édouard Vuillard: The Poetry of the Everyday
*The Holburne Museum*
*24 May to 15 September 2019*
This Spring, The Holburne Museum presents an extensive exhibition of works
by Édouard Vuillard (1868-1940) including many that are rarely publicly
displayed.
Vuillard was one of the leading figures in French art at the end of the
19th-century. He is famed for his small, subtle studies mostly of figures
in interiors. The Poetry of the Everyday celebrates the unique qualities of
his early work (from the 1890s) in which he balanced an obsession with
patterned fabrics and wallpaper with subtle, domestic psycho-dramas to
create painti... more »
Fra Angelico and the Rise of the Florentine Renaissance
*Museo Nacional del Prado. Madrid *
*5/28/2019 - 9/15/2019*
*Fra Angelico and the Rise of the Florentine Renaissance*, an exhibition
sponsored by the Fundación Amigos del Museo del Prado, analyses the
artistic importance of the early Florentine Renaissance between
approximately 1420 to 1430, with a particular focus on the figure of Fra
Angelico, one of the great masters of this period.
The exhibition, which includes 82 works loaned by more than 40 institutions
in Europe and America, centres on
[image: ‘The Annunciation’ © Madrid, Museo Nacional del Prado]
The Annunciation in... more »
Women of the WPA
*Georgia Museum of Art*
through Sept. 8, 2019
The Works Progress Administration (renamed the Works Projects
Administration in 1939) was an American New Deal agency created to provide
jobs for the unemployed, to build infrastructure, to document American
history and to create new works of art. This exhibition complements “Celebrating
Heroes: American Mural Studies of the 1930s and 1940s from the Steven and
Susan Hirsch Collection,” organized by the Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center
at Vassar College, and focuses specifically on the contributions of women
to WPA art, including works... more »
Sotheby's Impressionist & Modern Art Evening Sale in London on 19 June
Three outstanding paintings from an important private collection including
one of Claude Monet 's iconic *Nymphéas *series will lead the Impressionist
& Modern Art Evening Sale in London on 19 June.
"As far as method of colouring is concerned, [the Impressionists] have made
a real discovery, whose origin cannot be found elsewhere - neither with the
Dutch, nor in the pale tones of fresco painting, nor in the light
tonalities of the eighteenth century. […] Their discovery actually consists
in having recognised that full light de-colours tones, that the sun
reflected by objects t... more »
Rembrandt in Print
*Lady Lever Art Gallery, Liverpool*
*1 June – 15 September 2019*
Rembrandt in Print is an exhibition of 50 outstanding prints from the
Ashmolean Museum, displayed together for the first time to mark 350 years
since his Rembrandt's death in 1669.
Widely hailed as the greatest painter of the Dutch Golden Age and an
unrivaled storyteller, Rembrandt was one of the most innovative and
experimental printmakers of the 17th century. His works include intense
self portraits, atmospheric landscapes, intimate family portraits, biblical
stories and nude studies. Almost drawing-like in appeara... more »
Christie's Impressionist and Modern Art Evening Sale London 18 June
- *20th Century Week* at Christie's brings together the biggest names in
Impressionist and Modern Art and Modern British Art across six auctions in
London this June.
The *Impressionist and Modern Art Evening Sale* on 18 June is headlined
by exceptional pieces by Léger, Picasso, Matisse and Schiele. Alongside
these, 13 Surrealist and Dada works are offered from The Landscape of a
Mind, an important private collection, including Yves Tanguy’s *L’Extinction
des especes II* and René Magritte’s *Le parc du vautour* – both superb
examples of their kind, offer... more »
Austrian Masterworks from Neue Galerie
*Neue Galerie New York-*
*Until September 02, 2019 *
Highlights from the museum’s extensive collection of Austrian art from the
period 1890 to 1940 are on view, including major works by Gustav Klimt,
Oskar Kokoschka, Alfred Kubin, and Egon Schiele.
The display features an extraordinary selection of Klimt’s paintings,
[image: Gerta Loew. Portrait of Gertha Felssovanyi 1902]
including the early portrait of Gertha Loew (1902)
Gustav Klimt (1862–1918)
*Adele Bloch-Bauer I* , 1907
Oil, silver, and gold on canvas
Neue Galerie New York. Acquired through the generosity of Ronald S.
Lau... more »
Leonardo’s Legacy: Francesco Melzi and the Leonardeschi
*National Gallery *
*now through June 23, 2019 *
The National Gallery in London is marking the 500th anniversary of Leonardo
da Vinci’s death with a display presenting the exceptional loan (now
through June 23, 2019) of the recently restored 'Flora' by Francesco Melzi
from the State Hermitage Museum, St Petersburg.
The painting is being displayed alongside ten other key works by the
so-called ‘Leonardeschi’ from the National Gallery Collection in a free,
month-long display in Room 12. This is the first time the painting has been
seen in the UK and the first time it has been ... more »
Eclipse Of The Sun: Art Of The Weimar Republic
*Neue Galerie New York*
* May 23, 2019- September 02, 2019 *
This summer, Neue Galerie New York is pleased to present George Grosz’s
monumental 1926 canvas *Eclipse of the Sun*, which is on special loan from
the Heckscher Museum of Art in Huntington, New York. The painting is the
centerpiece of “Eclipse of the Sun: Art of the Weimar Republic,” a focused
exhibition that includes additional paintings and drawings by Grosz, along
with a selection of art by Otto Dix, Max Beckmann, Otto Griebel, Christian
Schad, Rudolf Schlichter, and Georg Scholz. Many of the works are drawn
from the... more »
Bonhams Old Master Paintings 3 Jul 2019
[image: Jan Brueghel the Younger (Antwerp 1601-1678) The Four Elements: An
Allegory of Earth; An Allegory of Water; An Allegory of Air; and An
Allegory of Fire 33.6 x 50cm (13 1/4 x 19 11/16in).; 32.9 x 48cm (12 15/16
x 18 7/8in).; 32.9 x 48cm (12 15/16 x 18 7/8in).; and 32.9 x 48.1cm (12
15/16 x 18 15/16in). (4)]
Jan Brueghel the Younger
(Antwerp 1601-1678)
The Four Elements: An Allegory of Earth; An Allegory of Water; An Allegory
of Air; and An Allegory of Fire 33.6 x 50cm (13 1/4 x 19 11/16in).; 32.9 x
48cm (12 15/16 x 18 7/8in).; 32.9 x 48cm (12 15/16 x 18 7/8in).; and 32.9 x
... more »
Gauguin: Portraits
*National Gallery of Canada*
*Friday, May 24, 2019 to Sunday, September 8, 2019*
*National Gallery, London*
* 7 October 2019 – 26 January 2020*
The National Gallery of Canada is the sole North American venue for a
dazzling presentation by one of the 19th century’s most influential and
complex artists – Paul Gauguin.
Inspired by Gauguin’s impressive sculpture of his friend *Meijer de Haan*,
from the Gallery collection, this landmark investigation focuses on the
mature years of the French artist’s career, when he moved away from
Impressionism and toward more symbolist representatio... more »
Manet and Modern Beauty
*Art Institute of Chicago *
*May 26 to September 8, 2019*
*J. Paul Getty Museum at the Getty Center *
*October 8, 2019, to January 12, 2020*
The Art Institute of Chicago and the J. Paul Getty Museum will each present *Manet
and Modern Beauty*, an exhibition on view *May 26–September 8, 2019 *at the Art
Institute of Chicago and *October 8, 2019–January 12, 2020 *at the J. Paul
Getty Museum in Los Angeles. This exhibition focuses exclusively on Édouard
Manet and will be the first to center on his last years, bringing together
an impressive array of genre scenes, still lifes, pastels, ... more »
American Impressionism: Treasures from the Daywood Collection
Mitchell Gallery, Annapolis, MD
August 23, 2019 - October 20, 2019
Fort Wayne Museum of Art, Fort Wayne, IN
September 19, 2020 – December 13, 2020
Polk Museum of Art, Lakeland, FL
July 31, 2021 – October 23, 2021
Drawn from the collection of the Huntington Museum of Art, *American
Impressionism: Treasures from the Daywood Collection *features 41 elegant
American paintings, originally from the private collection of Arthur Dayton
and Ruth Woods Dayton. The Daytons (whose family surnames combine to form
“Daywood”), were prominent art patrons in early 20th century West Virginia
who ac... more »
Leonardo da Vinci: A Life in Drawing
*The Queen's Gallery, Buckingham Palace, London *
*24 May – 13 October 2019*
*The Queen's Gallery, Palace of Holyroodhouse, Edinburgh*
* 2 November 2019 – 15 March 2020 *
Also see :
https://arthistorynewsreport.blogspot.com/2018/02/leonardo-da-vinci-life-in-drawing.html
Attributed to Francesco Melzi, A portrait of Leonardo, c.1515–18©
More than 200 drawings by Leonardo da Vinci, the largest exhibition of the
artist’s work in over 65 years, opens at The Queen’s Gallery, Buckingham
Palace tomorrow (Friday, 24 May 2019) to mark the 500th anniversary of
Leonardo’s death. Select... more »
