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Meissonier masterpiece
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Rob Rogers discusses
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The Post-Gazette's award-winning editorial cartoonist will discuss his experiences covering the 2008 presidential campaign and conventions.
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at the Frick through 10/5
Learn about Pittsburgh's past by viewing more than 130 printed views of the city.
Meissonier masterpiece
now on view at the Frick
1806, Jena is on view at the Frick through May 31, 2009.
This Sunday is
RADical Day at the Frick
Visit the Frick on 10/5 for a full day of activities and fun!
Rob Rogers discusses
political cartooning on 10/12
The Post-Gazette's award-winning editorial cartoonist will discuss his experiences covering the 2008 presidential campaign and conventions.
Music for Exhibitions
begins new season 11/18
Join Katherine Soroka and Chatham Baroque for an evening of memorable music.
View photos from the 2008 H. C. Frick Horseless Carriage Tour
Twenty-six teams of drivers made it a day of fun.
Sign up for the
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DRAWN TOWARD THE AVANT-GARDE: NINETEENTH- AND TWENTIETH-CENTURY FRENCH DRAWINGS FROM THE ROYAL MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS, COPENHAGEN MASTER FRENCH DRAWINGS EXHIBITION PREMIERES AT THE FRICK ART MUSEUM The third exhibition in the Frick’s yearlong focus on drawings features work by French masters of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, including Ingres, Millet, Manet, Degas, Picasso, Gris, and many others. PITTSBURGH, PA — The Frick Art Museum is pleased to announce the American premiere of Drawn Toward the Avant-Garde: Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century French Drawings from the Royal Museum of Fine Arts, Copenhagen. This major exhibition features eighty exquisite drawings by the great nineteenth- and early twentieth-century French masters, including Jean Auguste Dominque Ingres, Jean-François Millet, Theodore Rousseau, Gustave Moreau, Auguste Rodin, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, Édouard Manet, Edgar Degas, Camille Pissarro, Paul Gauguin, and Pablo Picasso, among others. Few of the works have been displayed outside of Denmark, and many have never been published. The exhibition is organized and circulated by Art Services International of Alexandria, Virginia. It opens at the Frick on October 18, 2002 and remains on view until January 5, 2003. Selected from the vast collection of French drawings at the Royal Museum of Fine Arts, Copenhagen, Drawn Toward the Avant-Garde provides a lively, comprehensive survey tracing the development of modern drawing. The work in the exhibition covers every major movement of French art, from the Romantic movement of the early nineteenth century to mid-century drawings of the Barbizon school through the avant-garde abstraction of the early twentieth century. Among the masterpieces of the nineteenth century are Ingres’s depiction of the painter and lithographer J. C. C. Pecharman, one of his many splendid portraits drawn in Rome around 1815. Also included are Toulouse-Lautrec’s In the Circus: The Clown Footit as Animal Tamer (1899), from his series of the Cirque Médrano; Édouard Manet’s sensitive brush drawing, Annabel Lee (ca. 1881); and Edgar Degas’s Portrait of Hermann de Clermont (ca. 1879). The exhibition also illustrates the importance of landscape to early nineteenth-century French artists, who sought to create images of calm that were far removed from the fast-expanding metropolis of Paris. These efforts to find new ways of observing and transforming nature are represented in the exhibition by the work of Barbizon painters such as Millet, Theodore Rousseau, Constant Troyon, and Charles-Émile Jacque. Nature also intrigued the Impressionist mainstream of the mid-to-late nenieteenth century, with artists seeking to blend nature and civilization in a palette emphasizing the fugitive qualities of light. The movement flourished in the work of Camille Pissarro and Berthe Morisot, and in the early paintings and sketches of Paul Gauguin, as can be observed in one of his delicate fans, View of A Harbor (1885). A more systematic approach explored by Post-Impressionist artists such as Paul Signac and Henri-Edmond Cross can be seen in works like Signac’s Entrance to the Old Basin of La Rochelle (ca. 1920). Édouard Vuillard and Pierre Bonnard continued Impressionism into the 1930s, while Henri Matisse left the tradition and developed a fine linear style, an exquisite example of which can be seen in his Portrait of Laurette (ca. 1916). In the early twentieth century, artists from all over the world came to Paris and stayed to define the movement known as French Modernism. Juan Gris’ Bowl and Decanter (1911) is an excellent example of the artist’s refined Cubism. Drawings by Pablo Picasso and sculptor Aristide Maillol represent cubist experiments in classicism, while those of Amadeo Modigliani manifest a cool and elegantly delineated modernism. The geometric discipline of French Concretism - a post-World War II movement– can be seen in works by Félix del Marle, Victor Vasarely, and Serge Poliakoff. Lyrical Abstraction, which arose in opposition to Concretism and was characterized by expressive gesture and an impressionist observation of nature, can be seen in works such as Olive Trees in Vence (ca. 1960) by Maurice Estève. According to William B. Bodine, Director of the Frick Art & Historical Center, the presentation of Drawn Toward the Avant-Garde is a triumphant conclusion to the Frick’s yearlong focus on drawing. “The Royal Museum of Fine Arts in Copenhagen has one of the finest collections of French drawings in the world, but many of the works in the collection are relatively unknown,” he says. “We are thrilled to have an opportunity to share these magnificent treasures with audiences in the greater Pittsburgh region.” During 2002, The Frick Art Museum presented two other international loan exhibitions of drawings: Masterworks from the Albertina: Renaissance to Rococo; and Rubens, Jordaens, Van Dyck and Their Circle: Flemish Master Drawings From the Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen. Drawn Toward the Avant-Garde: Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century French Drawings from the Royal Museum of Fine Arts, Copenhagen is accompanied by a full-color catalogue published by Art Services International. An essay by Dr. Jan Würtz Frandsen, Curator in the Department of Prints and Drawings and Guest Curator for the exhibition, discusses the importance of landscape art in the 19th century while exploring the motivations of urban, figurative artists into the 20th century. The catalogue will be available for $39.95 at the Museum Shop at the Frick Art & Historical Center. The exhibition’s American tour, which opens at The Frick Art Museum, is organized and circulated by Art Services International, Alexandria, Virginia. Following its presentation at the Frick, the exhibition will travel to the Museum of Fine Arts in St. Petersburg, Florida and the Arkansas Art Center in Little Rock, Arkansas. His Excellency Ulrik Federspiel, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Royal Danish Embassy, is Honorary Patron of the exhibition. The Royal Museum of Fine Arts The Royal Museum of Fine Arts in Copenhagen contains the oldest documented graphics collection in the world. It was established by King Christian II in 1521 as part of the royal collections. The museum’s collection of nineteenth- and twentieth-century French drawings and watercolors is mainly due to the generosity of two great Danish collectors who were active in the first half of the twentieth century: Johannes Rump and Herbert Melbye. Drawn Toward the Avant-Garde: Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century French Drawings represents the first opportunity for a wider public outside of Denmark to view works from the collection. Art Services International Art Services International (ASI) is a non-profit educational institution that organizes art exhibitions of the highest quality. These exhibitions include paintings, drawings, prints, photographs, sculpture, and decorative arts that range chronologically from antiquity through the Old Masters and continue into the modern period. ASI exhibitions are drawn from museums, galleries and private collections in the United States and abroad, and are hosted by museums throughout the United States and Europe. ASI shares with the hosting museums a commitment to enhancing the appreciation of art. The Frick Art Museum Part of the Frick Art & Historical Center, The Frick Art Museum contains the fine and decorative arts collection of Helen Clay Frick. The permanent collection concentrates on Italian Renaissance and French eighteenth-century works. Collection highlights include fourteenth- and fifteenth-century works by Sassetta, Duccio, and Giovanni de Paolo; a portrait by Rubens; a landscape by Boucher; and a devotional altarpiece by Jean Bellegambe. In addition to exhibiting its permanent collection, the Museum has an active program of temporary exhibitions. Drawn Toward the Avant-Garde: Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century French Drawings is the third exhibition in a yearlong focus on master drawings. The Frick Art Museum is open Tuesday–Saturday, 10:00 a.m.–5:00 p.m., and Sunday 12:00 – 6:00 p.m. Holiday hours (effective November 22, 2002 – January 5, 2003) are as follows: Tuesdays & Thursdays, 10 a.m. – 5 p.m., Wednesdays & Fridays, 10 a.m. – 9 p.m.; Saturdays & Sundays, 10 a.m. – 6 p.m. Free, docent-led tours of temporary exhibitions are offered Wednesday, Saturday and Sunday at 2:00 p.m. For information, the public may call 412-371-0600, 10 a.m. – 5:00 p.m., Monday through Sunday, or visit the Frick online at www.frickart.org. For further information or images, contact Greg Langel at the Frick Art & Historical Center at 412-371-0600, ext. 524, or at glangel@frickart.org. |
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