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Ordrupgaard July 14th to August 27th 2017 In the exhibition: Masterpieces . From Degas to Hammershøi Ordrupgaard offers a wide selection of masterpieces from the museum’s French and Danish collection. In the exhibition you will be able to experience Ordrupgaard’s crown jewels by masters such as Edgar Degas, Claude Monet, Auguste Rodin, Paul Gauguin, Vilhelm Hammershøi and several others. As something quite unique, you will also be able to see Ordrupgaard’s extensive collection of pastels – works that are rarely exhibited due to their highly light-sensitive and fragile nature.  These include Degas’ much loved, masterful depictions of ballerinas in the rehearsal room, together with portraits by Renoir and Manet of Parisians and life in the French metropolis in the late 1800s. Degas the alchemist From the 1880s on, pastel became Degas’ preferred medium, and towards the end of his working life he produced very few oil painti...

Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco Gustav Klimt, "The Virgin," 1913. Oil on canvas, 74 3/4 x 78 3/4 in. (190 x 200 cm). National Gallery Prague, Inv. 04512 © 2017 National Gallery in Prague (Image courtesy of the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco) in Share 23    The Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco will present  KLIMT & RODIN: An Artistic Encounter , opening at the Legion of Honor in October, on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of the deaths of Auguste Rodin in November 1917 and Gustav Klimt in February 1918. The exhibition will celebrate the legacies of these two pioneers, who each broke the reigning aesthetic boundaries of the time to find new vocabularies and create powerful agendas for modern painting and sculpture. Arranged in dialogue with the Legion of Honor’s acclaimed collection of Rodin works,  KLIMT & RODIN  will provide an incredibly rare opportunity for American audiences to...

Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum 17 October 2017 to 21 January 2018 The exhibition Picasso / Lautrec analyses the relationship between the early work of Pablo Picasso and that of the French artist Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec. Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec La Rousse in a White Blouse, 1889 In 1899, the young Picasso first became associated with Els Quatre Gats , a group of avant-garde writers and artists in Barcelona who were close to modernism and the decadent movement and were influenced by Toulouse-Lautrec, among others. However, it was between 1900 and 1904, at the time when Picasso was living for periods in Paris prior to permanently moving there, that he made contact with the work of the Post-impressionists such as Lautrec. Pablo Picasso, The Frugal Meal , 1904. During those years Picasso’s subject matter focused on the city’s low life and on the atmosphere of the night-time café-concerts. His painting was clearly influenced at this point by Lautrec’s, a...

  The Los Angeles County Museum of Art July 31, 2017-January 7 ,2018 Chagall: Fantasies for the Stage  highlights the principal role that music and dance played in Chagall’s artistic practice. The performing arts were a significant source of inspiration for Chagall throughout his long career: he depicted musicians in many of his paintings, collaborated on set designs for the Ballet Russes in 1911, created murals and theatrical productions for the Moscow State Jewish Theater in the 1920s, and designed costumes and monumental sets for ballet and opera in the 1940s, 1950s, and 1960s. The exhibition concentrates on Chagall’s four productions for the stage—the ballets Aleko , set to music by Pyotr Tchaikovsky (1942) : Marc Chagall Aleko. Costume design for the ballet Aleko (1942)    Marc Chagall. Zemphira, costume design for Aleko (Scene IV). (1942   Finale of the Ballet " Aleko ", 1942 - Marc Chagall Marc Chagall. Aleko and Zemphira by moonlight, 1942, ...

        ALBERTINA | VIENNA, AUSTRIA 29 SEPTEMBER 2017 – 7 JANUARY 2018 This autumn, the Albertina will pay homage to Raphael with a major exhibition of some 170 paintings and drawings representative of nearly all of the artist's important projects. Developed in cooperation with the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford, Raphael will offer a fresh look at the Renaissance master’s thought and composition method, based on an exploration of his entire career: from the early Umbrian period (up to 1504) to the years in Florence (1504/1505–1508) and finally to his time in Rome (1508/1509–1520). Raphael is based on the Albertina’s own significant holdings by the artist, accompanied by exceptional loans of famous works from prominent institutions such as Florence’s Uffizi Gallery, London’s Royal Collection and National Gallery, Oxford’s Ashmolean Museum, the Louvre Museum in Paris and the Vatican Museums. Alongside Leonardo da Vinci and Michelangelo, Raphael completes the R...

National Museum of Oslo 3 March - 28 May 2017 Staatsgalerie Stuttgart 14 July - 5 November 2017 In cooperation with the National Museum of Oslo, the Staatsgalerie Stuttgart is presenting exceptional works of American graphic art of the period from 1960 to 1990. Roy Lichtenstein, Sweet Dreams, Baby!, 1965, Staatsgalerie Stuttgart, Graphische Sammlung © Estate of Roy Lichtenstein/ VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 201       "M-Maybe," a 1965 pop art painting by Roy Lichtenstein https://www.staatsgalerie.de/en/press/great-graphic-boom-engl/sgs.html Printmaking had previously served primarily to make religious or political content accessible to a broad public and as an important means communication in other areas as well. In the early twentieth century it was above all the German Expressionists who devoted themselves to this technique quite extensively. Decades later, in the late 1950s, the U.S. then experienced a veritable “graphic boom”. At this point in time, the most pro...