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Art News:
New Curator of European Art
Brooklyn Museum Appoints Richard Aste Curator
of European Art
Brooklyn, NY....Monday, April 5, 2010.
Richard Aste, an art historian with broad
experience working with European painting,
sculpture, and works on paper, has been
appointed Curator of European Art at the
Brooklyn Museum.
Currently Associate
Curator at Museo de Arte de Ponce in Ponce,
Puerto Rico, Aste has worked with that
museum's important collection of eighteenth-
and nineteenth-century French paintings and
sculptures while organizing several
European-based exhibitions there.
Prior to the position in Ponce, Aste was a
specialist at Christie's in Old Master
Paintings and Old Master Drawings, and he has
held positions at Wildenstein & Co., Inc.,
and Robert Simon Fine Art, Inc.
During his tenure at Museo de Arte de Ponce,
Richard Aste was curator of Masterpieces of
Spanish Painting from the Prado and The
Journey to Impressionism, and co-curator of
The Age of Rodin and Masterpieces of European
Painting from Museo de Arte de Ponce. He is
currently working on the reinstallation of
thirteen permanent collection galleries.
Aste received Master's degrees from Hunter
College and CUNY Graduate School and
University Center, where he is currently a
Ph.D. candidate. His graduate work focused on
the Italian Renaissance, and included two
years in Florence researching Michelangelo,
after which he lectured at Hunter College for
several years.
The Brooklyn Museum's European art collection
includes Old Master and modern paintings by
such artists as Nardo di Cione, Davide
Ghirlandaio, Frans Hals, Francisco de Goya,
Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot, Gustave Courbet,
Claude Monet, Edgar Degas, Berthe Morisot,
Paul Cézanne, Henri Matisse, and Pablo
Picasso, as well as sculptures that include
an important collection of works by Auguste
Rodin.
Born in Lima, Peru, Aste lived in New York
City for a decade--three of those years in
Brooklyn--before relocating to Puerto Rico.
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