Saturday, May 28, 2011

Matisse, Picasso and The Parisian Avant-Garde May21--Sep 6

At the SF Museum of Modern Art:

American expatriates in bohemian Paris when the 20th century was young, the Steins — writer Gertrude, her brothers Leo and Michael, and Michael's wife, Sarah — were among the first to recognize the talents of avant-garde painters like Henri Matisse and Pablo Picasso. Through their friendship and patronage, they helped spark an artistic revolution. This landmark exhibition draws on collections around the world to reunite the Steins' unparalleled holdings of modern art, bringing together, for the first time in a generation, dozens of works by Matisse, Picasso, Paul Cézanne, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, and many others.


[TOP] Henri Matisse, Femme au chapeau (Woman with a Hat), 1905; oil on canvas;

[ABOVE RIGHT] Henri Matisse, Blue Nude: Memory of Biskra, 1907; The Baltimore Museum of Art: The Cone Collection

[LEFT] Pablo Picasso, Head in Three-Quarter View, 1907; gouache and watercolor on paper; Collection SFMOMA, bequest of Elise S. Haas; © 2011 Estate of Pablo Picasso

[BELOW] Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, In the Salon: The Divan, ca. 1892-93; Collection MASP, Museu de Arte de São Paulo



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