Art History News July-August

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TITIAN: LOVE DESIRE DEATH

Jonathan KantrowitzatArt History News - 2 days ago

* National Gallery, **London* *16 March – 14 June 2020* *National Galleries of Scotland, Edinburgh * *11 July – 27 September 2020* *Museo Nacional del Prado, Madrid * *20 October 2020 – 10 January 2021* *Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston* *11 February – 9 May 2021* Five of Titian’s greatest works, his epic series of large-scale mythological paintings, the 'poesie', will be brought together for the first time since 1704 at the National Gallery next March. Painted between about 1551 and 1562 the 'poesie' are among the most original visual interpretations of Classical myth of th... more »

From Manet to Picasso : The Thannhauser collection - Updated

Jonathan KantrowitzatArt History News - 3 days ago

*Hôtel de Caumont Art Centre -Until 29 September 2019* *A Culturespaces production in collaboration with The Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation, New York* After holding an exhibition devoted to Marc Chagall, the Hôtel de Caumont Art Centre will be presenting (as of 1 May 2019) masterpieces from the Justin K. Thannhauser Collection, bequeathed in 1963 to the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation in New York. For the first time, around fifty major works from this prestigious collection will be presented in Europe in an itinerant exhibition that began in the Guggenheim Bilbao Museum: pain... more »

'The Body Says, I Am a Fiesta: The Figure in Latin American Art'

Jonathan KantrowitzatArt History News - 4 days ago

*Norton Museum of Art, West Palm Beach/ October 4, 2019 - March 3, 2020* *https://www.norton.org/* Largely drawn from the Norton’s permanent collection, this exhibition addresses ideas about the body and its symbolic and societal implications in modern Latin American cultures. *The Body Says, I Am a Fiesta* presents paintings, photography, sculpture, and works on paper by artists active in Latin America and the United States between the 1930s and 2010s such as Diego Rivera [image: Diego Rivera] (shown: *El Amigo de Frida*, 1931), Ana Mendieta, Rufino Tamayo, and María Magdalena C... more »

The Touch of Color: Pastels at the National Gallery of Art

Jonathan KantrowitzatArt History News - 5 days ago

*National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC* *September 29, 2019 through January 26, 2020 * In a major new exhibition opening this fall, the National Gallery of Art will examine the beauty and depth of pastel, tracing its rich history from the Renaissance to the present day. *The Touch of Color: Pastels at the National Gallery of Art *will feature some 70 exquisite examples drawn entirely from the Gallery’s permanent collection, including many works never before exhibited. *The Touch of Color* opens on September 29, 2019, and continues through January 26, 2020. “*The Touch of Color* i... more »

WILLIAM BLAKE - Tate Britain

Jonathan KantrowitzatArt History News - 6 days ago

*Tate Britain * *11 S e p t e m b e r 2 0 19 – 2 F e b r u a r y 2 0 2 0 * This autumn, Tate Britain will present the largest survey of work by William Blake (1757-1827) in the UK for a generation. A visionary painter, printmaker and poet, Blake created some of the most iconic images in the history of British art and has remained an inspiration to artists, musicians, writers and performers worldwide for over two centuries. This ambitious exhibition will bring together over 300 remarkable and rarely seen works and rediscover Blake as a visual artist for the 21st century. Tate ... more »

Bertoldo di Giovanni: The Renaissance of Sculpture in Medici Florence

Jonathan KantrowitzatArt History News - 6 days ago

* The Frick Collection* * September 18, 2019, through January 12, 2020 * Bertoldo di Giovanni, Hercules on Horseback (detail), ca. 1470–75, bronze, Galleria Estense, Modena, Su concessione del Ministero per i Beni e le Attività Culturali - Archivio fotografico delle Galleria Estense; photo: Valeria Beltrami This fall, The Frick Collection presents the first exhibition devoted to the Renaissance sculptor Bertoldo di Giovanni (ca. 1440–1491). It shines a long-overdue light on the ingenuity and prominence of the Florentine artist, who was a student of Donatello, a teacher of Michel... more »

Charles E. Burchfield: Transitions

Jonathan KantrowitzatArt History News - 1 week ago

*Burchfield Penney Art Center, *Buffalo, New York *August 9–December 1, 2019 * [image: Charles E. Burchfield (1893-1967), Spring Rain in the Woods, 1950; Watercolor on paper, 30 x 40 inches; Private Collection] Charles E. Burchfield (1893-1967), *Spring Rain in the Woods*, 1950; Watercolor on paper, 30 x 40 inches; Private Collection Charles E. Burchfield’s landscapes reflect his cinematic vision. During the early twentieth century, when much of American landscape painting reflected pleasant silent scenes, he envisioned artwork that captured nature’s constantly shifting activity... more »

Edward Hopper and the American Hotel

Jonathan KantrowitzatArt History News - 1 week ago

*Virginia Museum of Fine Arts* *Oct. 26, 2019–Feb. 23, 2020* *Indianapolis Museum of Art * *Oct. 26, 2019–Feb. 23, 2020* The Virginia Museum of Fine Arts has announced that *Edward Hopper and the American Hotel* will premiere at the museum on Oct. 26—the only east coast venue for this major loan exhibition. Showcasing more than 60 of Hopper’s paintings, drawings, watercolors and illustrations, this groundbreaking exhibition offers a rare opportunity to see several of the acclaimed American artist’s most beloved works in person and in a new context. *Edward Hopper and the American H... more »

John Singer Sargent: Portraits in Charcoal

Jonathan KantrowitzatArt History News - 1 week ago

*Morgan Library & Museum, New York * *October 4, 2019 through January 12, 2020* *National Portrait Gallery * *February 28, 2020 - May 31, 2020* [image: bearded man in a coat]*Sir William Blake Richmond* / John Singer Sargent / c. 1910, Charcoal on paper / Lent by the National Portrait Gallery, London John Singer Sargent (1856–1925) was one of the greatest portrait artists of his time. While he is best known for his powerful paintings, he largely ceased painting portraits in 1907 and turned instead to charcoal drawings to satisfy portrait commissions. These drawn portraits repr... more »

Ernst Ludwig Kirchner -Neue Galerie New York

Jonathan KantrowitzatArt History News - 1 week ago

*Neue Galerie New York* *October 3, 2019- January 13, 2020 * In October 2019, Neue Galerie New York will debut “Ernst Ludwig Kirchner,” a major overview of the great German artist’s *oeuvre*. The presentation will span from 1907 to 1937, presenting several distinct phases associated with the primary cities where he lived and worked: Dresden, Berlin, and Davos. This exhibition is unprecedented in its focus on Kirchner’s revolutionary style, which evolved in relation to his subjects and changing circumstances. Arguably the most outstanding German artist of the early twentieth century... more »

Monet and Impressionism

Jonathan KantrowitzatArt History News - 1 week ago

*Dayton Art Institute, * *May 11 2019 - August 25 2019* Claude Monet (French, 1840–1926), *Waterloo Bridge, Sunlight Effect (effect de soleil)*, 1903, oil on canvas. Denver Art Museum collection: funds from Helen Dill bequest, 1935.15. This exhibition, organized by the Dayton Art Institute, provides a spotlight on Impressionism in France and Claude Monet’s remarkable influence on art. *Monet and Impressionism *features 13 paintings, with the focal point of the exhibition being a special loan from the Denver Art Museum of Monet’s spectacular painting, *Waterloo Bridge (Effect d... more »

From Manet to Picasso : The Thannhauser collection

Jonathan KantrowitzatArt History News - 1 week ago

*Hôtel de Caumont Art Centre - 29 September 2019**A Culturespaces production in collaboration with The Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation, New York* After holding an exhibition devoted to Marc Chagall, the Hôtel de Caumont Art Centre will be presenting (as of 1 May 2019) masterpieces from the Justin K. Thannhauser Collection, bequeathed in 1963 to the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation in New York. For the first time, around fifty major works from this prestigious collection will be presented in Europe in an itinerant exhibition that began in the Guggenheim Bilbao Museum: paintings and ... more »

Rembrandt to Picasso: Five Centuries of European Works on Paper

Jonathan KantrowitzatArt History News - 1 week ago

*Brooklyn Museum* *June 21 – October 13, 2019 * Showcasing the breadth of the Brooklyn Museum’s exceptional works on paper collection, *Rembrandt to Picasso: Five Centuries of European Works on Paper* highlights more than one hundred European prints and drawings, pairing masterworks by renowned artists such as William Blake, Albrecht Dürer, Francisco Goya, and Vincent van Gogh with lesser known, rarely seen drawings, prints, and watercolors. Works on view feature intimate portraits, biting social satire, fantastical visions, vivid landscapes, and more, and are organized into four ... more »

Hieronymuss Bosch's music written on the butt of one of the characters

Jonathan KantrowitzatArt History News - 1 week ago

[image: Image may contain: 1 person] In the Hieronymuss Bosch's "The Garden of Earthly Delights" painting (1480-1490 circa) there is some music written on the butt of one of the characters in hell. But how sounds this 15th Century melody? Here is how is the 600-years-old butt music from hell sounds:

Augusta Savage: Renaissance Woman,

Jonathan KantrowitzatArt History News - 1 week ago

The Palmer Museum of Art at Penn State will open its major special exhibition of the fall season, *Augusta Savage: Renaissance Woman*, on August 24. Featuring nearly eighty objects, including sculptures, paintings, works on paper, and archival materials, this exhibition is the first to reassess Harlem Renaissance artist Augusta Savage’s contributions to art and cultural history in light of her role as an artist-activist. “We are honored to present this major exhibition of the American sculptor Augusta Savage at the Palmer this fall,” said the museum’s director, Erin M. Coe. “We are ... more »

Guercino: Virtuoso Draftsman

Jonathan KantrowitzatArt History News - 2 weeks ago

*Morgan Library & Museum, New York * *October 4, 2019 through February 2, 2020* Giovanni Francesco Barbieri (1591–1666), known as Guercino, was arguably the most interesting and diverse draftsman of the Italian Baroque era, a natural virtuoso who created brilliant drawings in a broad range of media. Supreme examples of virtually every genre of drawing produced in seventeenth-­century Italy survive from his hand: academic nudes, genre scenes and caricatures, energetic and fluid pen sketches for figures and compositions, highly refined chalk drawings, designs for engravings, and ... more »

William McGregor Paxton and Elizabeth Okie Paxton: An Artistic Partnership

Jonathan KantrowitzatArt History News - 2 weeks ago

*The Butler Institute of American Art, * *Youngstown, OH * August 18 – November 10, 2019 [image: Woman seated] William McGregor Paxton, *Sylvia,* Oil on canvas, 49 x 39 1/2 inches. Opening August 18, an exhibition examines the relationship between these two talented individuals, William McGregor Paxton and Elizabeth Okie Paxton, who were an important part of the Boston School of painters at the turn of the twentieth century. Together their careers spanned almost five decades, and they were married for over forty years. During that time, the Paxtons experienced many changes, b... more »

Verrocchio: Sculptor and Painter of Renaissance Florence

Jonathan KantrowitzatArt History News - 2 weeks ago

* National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC* *September 15, 2019, through January 12, 2020* The National Gallery of Art is pleased to present *Verrocchio: Sculptor and Painter of Renaissance Florence*, the first-ever monographic exhibition in the United States on Andrea del Verrocchio (c. 1435–1488), the innovative artist, painter, sculptor, and teacher whose pupils included Leonardo da Vinci, Pietro Perugino, and likely Sandro Botticelli as well. The exhibition examines the wealth and breadth of Verrocchio's extraordinary artistry by bringing together some 50 of his masterpieces in pa... more »

Industry, Work, Society, and Travails in the Depression Era: American Paintings and Photographs from the Shogren-Meyer Collection

Jonathan KantrowitzatArt History News - 3 weeks ago

*Hillstrom Museum of Art, St. Peter, Minnesota* *September 9 through November 10. * *Tweed Museum of Art - University of Minnesota Duluth * *January, 2021* *The Hillstrom Museum of Art* presents* Industry, Work, Society, and Travails in the Depression Era: American Paintings and Photographs from the Shogren-Meyer Collection, *on view from *September 9 *through* November 10*. *Industry, Work, Society, and Travails in the Depression Era *will feature 95 works of art, mostly dating from the 1930s. Among the photographers represented in the Shogren-Meyer collection and the exhibit based... more »

Highlights of the Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister

Jonathan KantrowitzatArt History News - 3 weeks ago

Though the Semper Building will close during the summer and autumn time most of its exposition space, it will still be possible to see important works of art from the Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister (Old Masters Picture Gallery). These include Raphael's "Sistine Madonna" as well as Giorgione's "Sleeping Venus", [image: Johannes Vermeer - The Procuress - Google Art Project.jpg] Vermeer's "The Procuress" or Bellotto's famous panoramic view of Dresden. - Exhibition Site Zwinger - DATES * 02/08/2019—03/11/2019* The exhibition offers a selection of 100 masterpieces of the co... more »

Lotte Laserstein Face to Face

Jonathan KantrowitzatArt History News - 3 weeks ago

*[image: Berlinische Galerie - Museum of modern art, photography and architecture]* *05.04.–12.08.2019* Berlin’s Lotte Laserstein (1898-1993) was one of the most sensitive portrait painters of the early Modernist period when tradition vied with innovation. By the time she was 30, she was a well-known and successful artist. Her career was brutally ended in 1933. Lotte Laserstein. Face to Face, Berlinische Galerie, exhibition view, Photo: Harry Schnitger © VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2019. Berlin’s public museum of modern art, photography and architecture will show 58 works – 48 pain... more »

Gustave Caillebotte Painter and Patron of Impressionism

Jonathan KantrowitzatArt History News - 3 weeks ago

* Alte Nationalgalerie** 17.05.2019 to 15.09.2019* Gustave Caillebotte (1848–1894) was one of the central figures of French Impressionism, yet he is among those artists who remain to be discovered today. His fame was initially founded on his role as a patron, and only later did he gain full recognition as a painter. Gustave Caillebotte, *Paris Street, Rainy Day [Rue de Paris, temps de pluie]*, 1877. Oil on canvas, 212.2 × 276.2 cm. Art Institute of Chicago © bpk / The Art Institute of Chicago / Art Resource, NY. Caillebotte’s painting “Paris Street; Rainy Day” (“Rue de Paris, t... more »

Judges affirm decision to return Nazi-looted drawings by Egon Schiele to heirs of Holocaust victim

Jonathan KantrowitzatArt History News - 3 weeks ago

On Tuesday, the appeals court in New York upheld a 2018 ruling that returned two Nazi-looted drawings to the heirs of a Holocaust victim. This decision ends a years-long dispute between London art dealer, Richard Nagy, and the descendants of Fritz Grünbaum. Raymond Dowd, a lawyer for the heirs, said “they are thrilled that the memory of Fritz Grünbaum is being properly honoured.” The two prized drawings by the major figurative painter Egon Schiele (1890-1918) are worth an estimated $7 million (£5.6 million). Barring further appeals, they will be sold by Christie’s at auction in Novem... more »

Ruskin, Turner & the Storm Cloud

Jonathan KantrowitzatArt History News - 3 weeks ago

The main summer show at *Abbot Hall Art Gallery is Ruskin, Turner & the Storm Cloud (12 Jul - 5 Oct 2019). * The exhibition will include more than 100 works and stretch across six rooms. It is one of the biggest exhibitions in the UK during the 200th anniversary of John Ruskin’s birth (8 February 1819). Ruskin, Turner & the Storm Cloud will be the first in-depth examination of the relationship between both men, their work, and the impact Ruskin had in highlighting climate change. *Image: John Ruskin, Dawn, Coniston, 1873, Watercolour over pencil, Acquired with the support of a V&A... more »

Jacob Lawrence: The American Struggle

Jonathan KantrowitzatArt History News - 3 weeks ago

* Peabody-Essex Museum* *On view January 18, 2020 to April 26, 2020* *Jacob Lawrence: The American Struggle* is the first museum exhibition of the series of paintings *Struggle: From the History of the American People* (1954–56) by the best known black American artist of the 20th century, Jacob Lawrence (1917–2000). Created during the modern civil rights era, Lawrence’s thirty intimate panels interpret pivotal moments in the American Revolution and the early decades of the republic between 1775 and 1817 and, as he wrote, “depict the struggles of a people to create a nation and their ... more »

FROM GOYA TO MANET - THE 19TH CENTURY IN THE ALTE PINAKOTHEK

Jonathan KantrowitzatArt History News - 4 weeks ago

* Alte Pinakothek * * 25.07.2019 ‐ 24.07.2020* After four decades of unbroken use as a museum and exhibition space, the Neue Pinakothek (rebuilt in its current form in the 1970s) has had to shut its doors for extensive renovation and modernization work due to last several years. During this period, selected major works of 19th century painting and sculpture from its collection will be on display in the Alte Pinakothek and at the Sammlung Schack. Selected highlights range from key works of Neoclassicism and Romanticism to the dawn of Modernism. *Masterpieces from the Neue Pinakothek... more »

Jan van Eyck "Als Ich Can"

Jonathan KantrowitzatArt History News - 4 weeks ago

[image: Jan van Eyck] *Kunsthistorisches Museum Vienna* *10 July 2019 to 20 October 2019* The exhibition presents three of the circa twenty extant works by Jan van Eyck, offering a glimpse of the art produced during the reign of Duke Philipp the Good, when the Burgundian Low Countries witnessed a unique flowering of courtly and urban civilisation. Jan van Eyck (c.1390-1441), the favourite court painter of Philipp the Good, duke of Burgundy (1396-1467), is celebrated for his virtuosity in the use of oil paint and his skill in combining naturalism and realism with brilliant colour... more »

Baroque Pathways: The National Galleries Barberini Corsini in Rome

Jonathan KantrowitzatArt History News - 1 month ago

*From July 13 to October 6, 2019, Germany's Museum Barberini* is presenting its first old master exhibition: *Baroque Pathways: The National Galleries Barberini Corsini in Rome* showcases 54 masterpieces from the collections of the Palazzo Barberini and the Galleria Corsini in Rome, among them an early work by Caravaggio, his painting Narcissus of 1597–1599. Tracing the birth of Roman Baroque painting in the wake of Caravaggio, its spread through Europe and development north of the Alps and in Naples, the exhibition explores the role of the Barberini as patrons of the arts and t... more »

Something Over Something Else: Romare Bearden’s Profile Series

Jonathan KantrowitzatArt History News - 1 month ago

* High Museum of Art * *Sept. 14, 2019 through Feb. 2, 2020* *Cincinnati Art Museum * *Feb. 28–May 24, 2020* In fall 2019, the High Museum of Art will premiere “Something Over Something Else: Romare Bearden’s Profile Series,” the first exhibition to bring dozens of works from the eminent series together since its debut nearly 40 years ago. Following its presentation at the High, in Atlanta, from Sept. 14, 2019 through Feb. 2, 2020, the exhibition will travel to the Cincinnati Art Museum (Feb. 28–May 24, 2020). In November 1977, The New Yorker magazine published a feature-length ... more »

Bartolomé Bermejo

Jonathan KantrowitzatArt History News - 1 month ago

*National Gallery, London* *12 June – 29 September 2019* This summer, the National Gallery, as part of its Spanish season, will show a select number of works by Bartolomé Bermejo (about 1440–about 1501), one of Spain’s most innovative and accomplished painters active in the second half of the 15th century. Bartolomé de Cárdenas was more commonly known as ‘Bermejo’ – meaning ‘reddish’ in Spanish – probably referring to a distinctive physical feature such as red hair or a ruddy complexion. He was born in Cordoba but was principally active in the Crown of Aragon, working in Tous, ... more »

Turner. The Sea and the Alps

Jonathan KantrowitzatArt History News - 1 month ago

*Kunstmuseum Luzern * *06.07. 13.10.2019* J.M.W. Turner, the world famous English painter, travelled around Switzerland several times in search of spectacular motifs. While doing so, he visited Lucerne repeatedly to study the unique interplay of light and weather, lake and mountains there. He captured his impressions in sketches and vibrant watercolours. These observations and depictions both of the sea, during the crossing to the continent, and of the Alps were of major importance for Turner: in them the beauty and dangers of nature combine directly with the theme of the subli... more »

Velázquez, Rembrandt, Vermeer. Parallel visions

Jonathan KantrowitzatArt History News - 1 month ago

* Museo Nacional del Prado. Madrid * *6/25/2019 - 9/29/2019* Within the context of the Prado’s celebration of its Bicentenary, the Museum is presenting *Velázquez, Rembrandt, Vermeer: Parallel visions*, an ambitious exhibition devoted to Dutch and Spanish painting of the late 16th and early 17th centuries which benefits from the sponsorship of Fundación AXA and the special collaboration of the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Comprising 72 works from the Prado, the Rijksmuseum and a further 15 lenders (including the Mauritshuis in The Hague, the National Gallery in London and the Metr... more »

Humble and Human: Impressionist Era Treasures from the Albright-Knox Art Gallery and the Detroit Institute of Arts

Jonathan KantrowitzatArt History News - 1 month ago

*Detroit Institute of Arts* *June 26-October 13, 2019* - The exhibition, featuring 44 works by Berthe Morisot, Paul Cézanne, Edgar Degas, Vincent van Gogh, Claude Monet and others, is comprised of Impressionist and Post-Impressionist works from the collections of the DIA and the Albright-Knox - Wilson, a Detroit native and founder and owner of the Buffalo Bills, endowed the Ralph C. Wilson, Jr. Foundation at his death in 2014. Some of the paintings in the exhibition have never been shown in Detroit before. Images[image: https://www.dia.org/sites/default/files/... more »

Goya — Visions & Inventions

Jonathan KantrowitzatArt History News - 1 month ago

*The Dalí Museum, St. Petersburg, Florida* *June 15-September 15* *Los Caprichos* ------------------------------ *September 16-20, the exhibit is on hiatus.* ------------------------------ *September 21-December 1**La Tauromaquia* *Goya — Visions & Inventions* showcases the work of Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes (1746-1828), one of Spain’s greatest artists and an integral influence on Salvador Dalí. His paintings and etchings from the late-18th and early-19th centuries are celebrated for their revolutionary qualities. Many scholars regard Goya’s life and works as the basis for ... more »

The conservation of the Botticelli and Ghirlandaio ‘Coronation of the Virgin’ altarpiece

Jonathan KantrowitzatArt History News - 1 month ago

*The Bass Museum of Art * *through October 24, 2019* The Bass, Miami Beach’s contemporary art museum, is the recipient of a Bank of America 2018 Art Conservation Project grant in the amount of $100,000. The grant funding will allow the museum to conserve a treasured work in the museum’s founding collection, the *Coronation of the Virgin* (c. 1492) altarpiece by Renaissance painters Sandro Botticelli (b. 1445, d. 1510) and Domenico Ghirlandaio (b.1449, d. 1494) . The work is one of over 500 artworks and artifacts gifted to the City of Miami Beach in 1964 by collectors John and Johan... more »

Dallas Museum of Art - Caravaggio.

Jonathan KantrowitzatArt History News - 1 month ago

This summer, visitors to the Dallas Museum of Art have the rare opportunity to see an extraordinary work by the Old Master painter Caravaggio. One of the most influential figures in the history of European art, he is renowned as one of the greatest Baroque painters of the 17th century along with Rubens, Velázquez, Rembrandt, and Poussin. Fewer than 10 paintings by Caravaggio are housed in the US, on view in the collections of only six museums. Michelangelo Merisi da Caravggio, *Martha and Mary Magdalene, *c. 1598, oil and tempera on canvas, Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of the K... more »

Winslow Homer: Eyewitness

Jonathan KantrowitzatArt History News - 1 month ago

Discover how celebrated American artist Winslow Homer’s work for the illustrated periodical *Harper’s Weekly* helped shape his later career as a painter and watercolorist. *Winslow Homer: Eyewitness* is on view at *Harvard Art Museums*, Cambridge, Mass., August 31, 2019–January 5, 2020. During the Civil War (1861–1865), American artist Winslow Homer (1836–1910) served as a correspondent for *Harper’s*. His sketches of soldiers, both in battle on the front lines and in quieter moments back at camp, were reproduced to accompany the journal’s accounts of the conflict. Homer worked for... more »

Homer at the Beach: A Marine Painter's Journey, 1869-1880

Jonathan KantrowitzatArt History News - 1 month ago

*Cape Ann Museum* *Aug. 3 to Dec. 1, 2019* Winslow Homer (1836–1910), Children on the Beach, 1873. Oil on canvas, 12 3/4 in. x 16 3/4 in. Private collection.This summer, the *Cape Ann Museum* will exhibit some 50 original works by renowned American artist Winslow Homer. The exhibition will be the first close examination of the formation of this great artist as a marine painter. The Cape Ann Museum will be the sole venue for this exhibition (on view Aug. 3 to Dec. 1, 2019), which will include loans from some 40 public and private collections. In 1869, Winslow Homer (1836–1910) exh... more »

TITIAN: LOVE DESIRE DEATH

National Gallery, London
16 March – 14 June 2020

National Galleries of Scotland, Edinburgh 
11 July – 27 September 2020

Museo Nacional del Prado, Madrid 
20 October 2020 – 10 January 2021

Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston
11 February – 9 May 2021

Five of Titian’s greatest works, his epic series of large-scale mythological paintings, the 'poesie', will be brought together for the first time since 1704 at the National Gallery next March.

Painted between about 1551 and 1562 the 'poesie' are among the most original visual interpretations of Classical myth of the early modern era and are touchstone works in the history of European painting for their rich, expressive rendering.

The series was commissioned by Philip II of Spain, who highly unusually gave Titian an open brief to select his subjects. The paintings depict stories from Classical mythology, primarily drawn from the Roman poet Ovid’s Metamorphoses. Because he considered them visual equivalents to poetry, Titian called them his ‘poesie’. He distilled in them the knowledge of painting and visual storytelling that he had acquired over five decades as an artist to create some of his most profound statements on human passion and irrationality, on love and death.

From the original cycle of six paintings, the exhibition will reunite

 

 'Danaë' (1551–3, The Wellington Collection, Apsley House); ' 
 

Venus and Adonis' (1554, Prado, Madrid); 




Diana and Actaeon (1556–9)



and Diana and Callisto, (1556–9) jointly owned by the National Gallery and the National Galleries of Scotland; and

Titian, 'Rape of Europa', 1562 © Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston

'Rape of Europa' (1562) from the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston.



The National Gallery’s own Death of Actaeon (1559–75), originally conceived as part of the series, but only executed much later and never delivered, will also be included in London.

Following the London exhibition, the 'poesie' will travel to the Scottish National Gallery, Edinburgh, the Prado, Madrid, and the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston.

Exhibition organised by the National Gallery, the National Galleries of Scotland, the Museo Nacional del Prado, and the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston

From Manet to Picasso : The Thannhauser collection - Updated

Hôtel de Caumont Art Centre -Until  29 September 2019  A Culturespaces production in collaboration with The Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation, New York After holding an exhibition devoted to Marc Chagall, the Hôtel de Caumont Art Centre will be presenting (as of 1 May 2019) masterpieces from the Justin K. Thannhauser Collection, bequeathed in 1963 to the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation in New York. For the first time, around fifty major works from this prestigious collection will be presented in Europe in an itinerant exhibition that began in the Guggenheim Bilbao Museum: paintings and sculptures by the masters of Impressionism and post- Impressionism, as well as the major figures of modern art, from Manet to Picasso, and Degas, Gauguin, Cézanne, Van Gogh, Braque, and Matisse. Justin K. Thannhauser (1892–1976), a leading figure in the dissemination of European modern art, was the sponsor, friend, and promoter of innovative artists who transformed Western art at the end of the nineteenth century and the first half of the twentieth century. In his youth, he helped his father, Heinrich Thannhauser, to run the famous Moderne Galerie, which was founded in Munich in 1909. Father and son developed a remarkable programme of exhibitions that featured the work of French Impressionists and post-Impressionists, as well as contemporary German artists. The gallery also held one of the first major retrospectives of Picasso’s oeuvre in 1913, and this helped to forge a long and close friendship between Justin Thannhauser and the artist. In 1941, Justin Thannhauser moved to New York and soon established himself as an art dealer in the United States. As he had no successor, he bequeathed the major works in his collection to the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation in New York. They have since become some of the most important works in this major museum, where they are displayed in a gallery that bears the name of their legatee. This bequest considerably enriched the body of works by Cézanne in the New York museum, which until that point only had a single work by the artist:  l'Homme aux bras croisés (Man with Crossed Arms, circa 1889). The collection of works by Cézanne owned by Thannhauser will be displayed at the Hôtel de Caumont, and includes the work   Bibémus (Bibémus Quarries), which will return for the first time to Aix-in-Provence, where it was painted circa 1894–1895. The exhibition brings together other emblematic works: major paintings by Picasso such as   Le Moulin de la Galette (1900), an exceptional loan from the Guggenheim Museum, as well as masterpieces by Van Gogh and Manet, which have been restored to their former splendour, thanks to a recent restoration campaign that was conducted specifically for this exhibition. Details: Bibémus (Bibémus Quarries), Cézanne  Cézanne executed many landscapes that represented the abandoned stone quarries of Bibémus, near Mont Sainte-Victoire. The artist rented a cabin in this spot between 1895 and 1899 and he enjoyed working in the isolation and solitude of the quarries. The region’s bright colours, above all the red sandstone and the rocky terrain of the quarries with their wild shrubs, influenced the artist’s increasing ly geometric style. For the first time, this highly emblematic work representing the region, painted in the environs of Aix-en-Provence, will return to its native town after more than a century and a half.     Édouard Manet (1832-1883), Devant la glace, 1876, oil on canva, 93 x 71,6 cm Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, Thannhauser Collection, don Justin K. Thannhauser, 78.2514.27 2 1   Devant la glace (Before the Mirror), Manet  Édouard Manet painted this view of a woman seen from the back in 1876. The sitter was a famous courtesan, the mistress of the successor to the Dutch throne. This highly intimate painting represents her wearing a corset and the viewer’s eye is drawn to this item of clothing. Like his contemporaries, the Impressionists, Manet wished to depict very aspect of modern life, including the private world of sensual pleasures. The painter said: ‘The satin corset may be the nude of our era’. The picture was painted in a very modern style and the brushstrokes are free and expressive and lacking in details, creating the impression of a fleeting image. Édouard Manet, Femme en robe à rayures, vers 1877-1880, oil on canva, 175,5 x 84,3 cm Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, Thannhauser Collection, don Justin K. Thannhauser, 78.2514.28   Femme en robe à rayures (Woman in Striped Dress), Manet  A young woman posed for Édouard Manet. Dressed fashionably, wearing a striped dress and holding a Japanese fan, she is looking beyond the con fines of the picture. Upon Manet’s death in 1883, this picture was unfinished in his studio. Based on photographs and scientific analyses, the work reveals that finishing touches were subsequently applied and that the painting was trimmed down its sides and along the top. The picture is also covered in a thick layer of varnish, which was probably applied to the surface to facilitate its sale at the time. The gradual removal of this layer of varnish revealed the original rapid brushstrokes that were so characteristic of Manet’s work. In addition, the inventories made at the time described the dress as violet, but before the restoration the dress’s stripes appeared to be almost green. The restored picture now has deep blue violet hues. The work will be exhibited for the first time in France since its restoration, which was completed in 2018.   3. FROM FATHER TO SON: THE THANNHAUSERS’ CENTRES OF INTEREST   Capital of the liberal Weimar Republic, Berlin was a cultural centre in the 1920s and embraced unconventional art movements and lifestyles. The Thannhausers found it an ideal place in which to develop their business. Justin Thannhauser began in 1927 by organising a ‘special exhibition’ (Sonderausstellung), which the public and the critics greeted with enthusiasm. Amongst the two hundred and sixty-three works, the exhibition presented Mountains at Saint-Rémy by Vincent van Gogh. Painted during the artist’s convalescence, in 1889, it represents his subjective vision of the Provençal landscape through the use of thick and vibrant brushstrokes. In 1928, the Thannhauser gallery held a major retrospective of Gauguin’s oeuvre, with no less than 230 works by the artist, borrowed from major public and private collections. Justin’s presentations in the Berlin gallery in many ways reflected his father’s early interests in Munich. It was Heinrich who had organised a survey of Van Gogh’s oeuvre in 1908, in collaboration with the artist’s heirs. In 1910, the gallery in Munich had also held a major exhibition devoted to Gauguin, with twenty-six works by the artist, including Haere Mai. Painted on the distant island of Tahiti in 1891, this work represents an idealised and romantic vision of an unsullied paradise, which appealed to many Europeans at the turn of the century.  Vincent van Gogh (1853-1890), Le Viaduc, Asnières, 1887, oil on canvas, 32,7 x 41 cm Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, Thannhauser Collection, don Justin K. Thannhauser, 78.2514.17   Van Gogh’s Le Viaduc (Roadway With Underpass) represents a tunnel next to the Quai d’Asnières (now called Asnières-sur-Seine), a Parisian faubourg, where he often visited his friend, the artist Émile Bernard. A woman can be seen walking in the shade beneath the viaduct, drawn to the other side by a barely visible glimmer of light. Chimneys are visible above the railway bridge, surrounded by lush vegetation. During this time, van Gogh’s technique was greatly influenced by exhibitions of French artists linked to Impressionism and post-Impressionism. In 2018, the R. Guggenheim Foundation began to restore the work, whose original colours have been revealed. The work was exhibited in France in Thannhauser’s Parisian gallery at the end of the 1930s. In addition to the expansion to Berlin, in 1920 Justin Thannhauser had founded a gallery in Lucerne, with his cousin Siegfried Rosengart.   4. ON THE LOOKOUT FOR MODERN ART: JUSTIN THANNHAUSER AND HIS FRIENDS   In 1913, when the Thannhausers lent works to the major exhibition of modern art in New York, better known as the Armory Show, the gallery in Munich held one of the first retrospectives of Picasso’s oeuvre in Germany. This exhibition, which presented works dating from 1901 to 1912, marked the beginning of a lasting friendship between the artist and Justin Thannhauser, who wrote the catalogue’s preface. Hence, while Heinrich Thannhauser consolidated his reputation in Munich, Justin developed his taste for modern art and demonstrated his support for a new generation of vanguard artists. Having assisted his father in the Moderne Galerie from around the age of seventeen, Justin continued his academic studies in Berlin, Florence, and Paris in the early 1910s. His philosophy and art history teachers and colleagues were prominent figures such as Henri Bergson, Adolph Goldschmidt, and Heinrich Wölfflin. Another acquaintance in Paris, the German painter Rudolf Levy, was a friend of Henri Matisse and the expatriates who frequented the Café du Dôme, in Montparnasse. It was probably through the so-called ‘Dômiers’ that Justin came to know the key Parisian art dealers, which strengthened his position within the network of American and European modern art galleries. The Matisse exhibition that Justin held in Berlin in 1930 was organised through his contacts in the Parisian art world. The show, prepared in collaboration with the artist and comprising two hundred and sixty-five paintings, sculptures, drawings, and engravings, was the most comprehensive retrospective of Matisse’s oeuvre in Germany up to that point.  Le Moulin de la Galette, Paris, vers novembre 1900, oil on canva, 89,7 x 116,8 cm Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, Thannhauser Collection, don Justin K. Thannhauser, 78.2514.34 © Succession Picasso 2019   Le Moulin de la Galette,  Picasso Picasso was nineteen when he painted Le Moulin de la Galette (1900). This was his most important work executed during his first stay in Paris—the artistic epicentre at that time—, where he had come to visit the Universal Exhibition . The work reflects the young Picasso’s fascination with the Bohemian atmosphere of Parisian nightlife. The strong influence of Henri Toulouse-Lautrec is evident in th e choice of subject matter and the composition. The figures on the left and right a re outside the frame, which reinforces the impression of instantaneity, giving it a p hotographic quality. Picasso’s style subsequently evolved from a more naturalistic p eriod to his melancholic Blue Period, followed by his Pink Period, and finally, working in conjunction with Georges Braque, he developed geometric lines and the deconstruc tion of forms, with the flat areas that characterised cubism.   5. CHAMPION OF THE AVANT-GARDE: THE MUNICH-BASED ARTISTS AND DER BLAUE REITER  In the years preceding the Great War, the support that the Thannhausers gave to emerging artists—those based in Munich as well as abroad—played an important role in the proliferation of avant-garde styles. In 1909 and 1910, two exhibitions established the Neue Kunstlervereinigung Munchen (NKVM, or New Artists’ Association of Munich), which was openly opposed to conservatism in society and the contemporary German art market. The Thannhausers thus demonstrated their open-mindedness in providing a venue for such artists to exhibit their work, whereas the most conventional critics reacted to the paintings by Kandinsky, Münter, and Jawlensky by calling them ‘absurdities of incurable madmen’. In 1911–12, the first exhibition of Der Blaue Reiter (The Blue Rider) group confirmed the gallery’s foresight. Led by Wassily Kandinsky and Franz Marc, the group drew inspiration from sources as diverse as French Fauvism, Art Nouveau, Bavarian popular culture, and Russian folklore, and promoted the development of an art that was free of any figurative constraints, and which experimented with lyrical, symbolic, and spiritual expression. In addition to presenting paintings by the movement’s founding members, and in the cosmopolitan spirit that characterised the movement, the Blaue Reiter exhibition enabled the German public to discover works by French artists such as Robert Delaunay and Henri Rousseau (works by the latter presented posthumously). In 1914, the Thannhausers also mounted the first major exhibition in Germany devoted to Paul Klee, a Swiss artist who was also associated with the artists’ group Der Blaue Reiter.   Kandinsky’s works are central to the Guggenheim, which has more than 150 of the artist’s works. Kandinsky left Russia, his native country, at the age of thirty, to study painting in Munich, one of Europe’s major cultural centres at the time. Solomon Guggenheim was determined to collect a wide range of the artist’s works in order to illustrate every period in his career.  Vassily Kandinsky (1866-1944), La Montagne bleue (Der blaue Berg), 1908-1909, oil on cardboard, 106 x 96,6 cm Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, Solomon R. Guggenheim Founding Collection, don, 41.505  The work, entitled Blue Mountain (Der blaue Berg, 1908–1909), in the Guggenheim Collection was exhibited in the Thannhauser Moderne Galerie in Munich during the first Der Blaue Reiter (The Blue Rider) exhibition. The motif of the rider in this picture symbolises the artist’s crusade against conventional aesthetic values and his desire to create a better utopian future via art’s capacity for transformation.  In 1911, Thannhauser’s Moderne Galerie in Munich held the first German exhibition of Klee’s work.    Paul Klee (1879-1940), Parterre de fleurs (Blumenbeet), 1913, huile sur carton, 28,2 x 33,7 cm Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, succession de Karl Nierendorf, acquisition, 48.1172.109 In Flower Bed (Blumenbeet, 1913), formerly on loan to the Thannhauser galleries, Klee concealed the naturalistic subject matter by using fragmented forms and the juxtaposition of dissonant colours, which was an approach used by the avant-garde movements that emerged in Europe during the years leading up to the First World War. Nevertheless, Klee managed to create a work that was impossible to categorise, and renewed his style, technique, and subject matter throughout his career. 6. FROM PARIS TO NEW YORK: THE THANNHAUSERS’ ART SALONS In the 1930s, the international economic crisis and the rise of Nazism affected Thannhauser’s business. The gallery in Berlin closed in 1937, shortly after Justin moved with his family to Paris; they lived in a charming residence on rue Miromesnil, embellished with works by Monet, Degas, Picasso, and others. After the outbreak of the Second World War, the Thannhausers ultimately settled in New York in early 1941. Although some artworks that had remained in Germany were destroyed during an air raid, and the Parisian residence was pillaged during the German Occupation, a considerable number of other pieces in the Thannhauser collection survived. For instance, ninety works had been temporarily placed with the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam in 1938, and nine paintings had been part of a traveling exhibition in Latin America and North America since this same year, before all were returned to the Thannhausers in New York at the war’s end.  Although he did not open a new gallery in New York, Justin Thannhauser continued to deal art privately, advise museums and galleries about art acquisitions, and help to organise major exhibitions. The house in which the Thannhausers lived from 1946, on East 67th Street, became a key gathering place for the city’s cultural circles. Those who visited the Thannhauser residence included prominent figures in the worlds of art, music, theatre, film, and photography such as Leonard Bernstein, Louise Bourgeois, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Marcel Duchamp, Jean Renoir, and Arturo Toscanini. The director of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation, Thomas Messer, was, of course, also a guest, as was Peggy Guggenheim, Solomon Guggenheim’s niece who operated a museum-gallery in New York in the 1940s. Justin often travelled from the United States to Europe. He remained in contact with Picasso, who he invited to stay in what Thannhauser called his ‘little house’.   1. Pablo Picasso (1881-1973), Jardin à Vallauris, Vallauris, 10 juin 1953, oil and lacquer paint (?) sur toile, 19,1 x 26,9 cm Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, Thannhauser Collection, don Justin K. Thannhauser, 78.2514.64 © Succession Picasso 2019 2. Pablo Picasso (1881-1973), Nature morte : Fruits et pot, 22 janvier 1939, oil and lacquer paint (?) sur toile, 27,2 x 41 cm Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, Thannhauser Collection, don Hilde Thannhauser, 84.3231 © Succession Picasso 2019 2 1 Press kit - Hôtel de Caumont - Centre d’Art 19 Pablo Picasso (1881-1973),  Le Homard et le chat, Mougins, 11 janvier 1965, oil and lacquer on canva 73 x 92,1 cm Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, Thannhauser Collection, legs Hilde Thannhauser, 91.3916 © Succession Picasso 2019  Le Homard et le chat (Lobster and Cat), Picasso  After the death of his first wife, Käthe, in 1960, Justin Thannhauser married Hilde Breitwisch. On this occasion, Pablo Picasso gave the couple Le Homard et le chat (Lobster and Cat), which was executed in 1965. A dedication written in red and in French can be seen on the canvas: ‘Pour Justin Thannhauser, votre ami, Picasso’ (‘For Justin Thannhauser, your friend, Picasso’). The work, which has a slightly comic aspect, was a reference to eighteenth-century still lifes, while focusing on the picture’s theme, which represents a real confrontation. A cat with a dark brown coat on the right is in direct conflict with a bright blue lobster on the left of the picture. The palette, composition, and the expressively applied paint create an animated picture: the cat’s back is arched, his tail is straight, and his fur is standing up on end with his eyes wide open, while the lobster, seen from above, appears to be carefully balancing on his many spindly legs.   7. THANNHAUSER AND PICASSO: THE STORY OF A FRIENDSHIP   With the Thannhauser bequest, more than thirty works by Picasso entered the Guggenheim collection. Covering a period of some sixty-five years, they attest to the friendship between the two men, Justin Thannhauser’s admiration for the artist’s work, and also his enterprising approach as a dealer and collector who was continually able to embrace new styles over the decades. In this room, three portraits of women correspond with very different periods in Picasso’s oeuvre. Inspired by muses and companions who accompanied the development of his painting (Fernande Olivier, Olga Khokhlova, and Marie-Thérèse Walter), they show the evolution of Picasso’s pictorial style as he liberally drew inspiration from sources as varied as ancient and modern art.  Hence, while classical statuary from antiquity inspired the sculptural aspects of    Woman in an Armchair (1922),   Pablo Picasso (1881-1973), Fernande à la mantille noire, Paris, vers 1905, oil on canva, 100 x 81 cm Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, Thannhauser Collection, legs Hilde Thannhauser, 91.3914 © Succession Picasso 2019  Fernande with a Black Mantilla (circa 1905), painted more than fifteen years earlier, attests to the influence of Fauvism: despite the almost monochrome palette, the colour is unconstrained by drawing. Woman With Yellow Hair, executed in 1931, reveals a renewed interest in surface treatment and colour. In this portrait of Picasso’s then-muse, Walter, the curvilinear contours and flat areas of bright colour signal a radical change in Picasso’s practice.

Hôtel de Caumont Art Centre displays more masterpieces from the Thannhauser Collection: Edgar Degas (1834-1917), Danse espagnole, vers 1896-1911 (fondu vers 1919-1926), Bronze, 40,3 x 16,5 x 17,8 cm Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, Thannhauser Collection, don Justin K. Thannhauser, 78.2514.9 © David Heald  Vincent van Gogh (1853-1890), Montagnes à Saint-Rémy, Saint-Rémy-de-Provence, juillet 1889, oil on canva, 72,8 x 92 cm Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, Thannhauser Collection, don Justin K. Thannhauser, 78.2514.24 2 Paul Gauguin (1848-1903), Haere Mai, 1891, oil an hessian, 72,5 x 92 cm Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, Thannhauser Collection, don Justin K. Thannhauser, 78.2514.16  Francis Picabia (1879-1953), Portrait de Mistinguett, vers 1908-1911, oil on canva, 60 x 49,2 cm Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, 66.1801 © Adagp, Paris,

Franz Marc (1880-1916), Vache jaune (Gelbe Kuh), 1911, oil on canva, 140,7 x 189,2 cm Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, Solomon R. Guggenheim Founding Collection, 49.1210 Exposé à la Moderne Galerie Heinrich Thannhauser, Munich, lors de la première exposition du Blaue Reiter, 1911-1912 2.    Georges Braque (1882-1963), Paysage près d’Anvers, 1906, oil on canva 60,3 x 81,3 cm Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, Thannhauser Collection, don Justin K. Thannhauser, 78.2514.1 © Adagp, Paris, 2019 1rt

Claude Monet, Le Palais ducal vu de Saint-Georges-Majeur, 1908. Huile sur toile 65,4 x 100,6 cm. Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, Thannhauser Collection, legs Hilde Thannhauser, 91.3910.