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Indepth Arts News:
"Painters in Paris: 1895–1950"
2000-03-08 until 2000-12-31
Metropolitan Museum
New York, NY,
USA United States of America
During the first decades of the 20th century, France
was host to many foreign artists and Paris was
central to the development of modern art. This
exhibition, which brings together for the first time
more than 100 prime examples from the
Metropolitan's collection of paintings by artists of
the School of Paris, begins with the Impressionist
tradition, represented by Monet, and chronologically
continues through the Fauves, Cubists, and
Surrealists. Many of these works—by 36 modern
masters including Braque, Chagall, Dubuffet,
Matisse, Miró, and Modigliani, as well as 19
paintings by Picasso—were acquired through major
gifts and bequests during the past two decades. United
in this exhibition, the works recall a period and
place of great vitality and reveal unexpected
relationships between the artists who so profoundly
shaped the art of their century.
Painters in Paris: 1895–1950, an exhibition
of more than 100 paintings by many of the 20th
century's most illustrious modern
masters—Bonnard, Braque, Chagall, Dubuffet, Léger,
Matisse, Miró, Modigliani, Picasso, as well as
others—is on view at The Metropolitan Museum of
Art through December 31, 2000. Representing 36
painters of the School of Paris, including the Fauves,
the Cubists, and the Surrealists, the
exhibition—drawn entirely from the Metropolitan's
collection—traces the development of painting in
France from its Impressionist roots at the turn of the
century through the aftermath of World War II.
This astounding array of paintings by masters of the
School of Paris reflects more than a half-century of
collecting by the Metropolitan Museum, said
Philippe de Montebello, Director of the Museum.
This collection has grown dramatically during the
last two decades alone, as we have had the good
fortune to gratefully accept a number of
extraordinarily generous gifts and bequests.
Commented William S. Lieberman, the Museum's
Jacques and Natasha Gelman Chairman of the Modern
Art Department and curator of the exhibition: This
is the first such survey of masterworks from our
collection, and it will be revelatory for our visitors.
Not only will it recall a period and place of great
vitality but it will also reveal unexpected
relationships between the artists who so profoundly
shaped the art of this century.
The exhibition is sponsored by Aetna.
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