Event Item: 00126

Monet to Picasso from the Cleveland Museum of Art

Exhibition: 23rd Jun 2008 to 21st Sep 2008

Source: http://www.umfa.utah.edu

This summer the Utah Museum of Fine Arts (UMFA) will present the highly acclaimed exhibition Monet to Picasso from the Cleveland Museum of Art. The show features 100 years of European masterworks and the UMFA is privileged to be among only four North American venues selected to host this marquee international touring exhibition. The works on display in this show have never been to Utah before.

Opening its three-month run at the UMFA on June 23, 2008, Monet to Picasso will feature works by the leading artists of the European modernist movements, dating from 1864 to 1964. More than seventy paintings, drawings and sculptures by luminaries of Impressionism, Post-Impressionism, Dadaism, Cubism, and Surrealism are gathered together in this singular exhibition. Most notably, the exhibition includes key works by Gustave Courbet, Pierre August Renoir, Edgar Degas, Edouard Manet, Claude Monet, Camille Pissarro, Vincent van Gogh, Paul Gauguin, Paul Cézanne, Pierre Bonnard, Auguste Rodin, Pablo Picasso, Amedeo Modigliani, Henri Matisse, Rene Magritte, Georges Braque, Max Ernst, Piet Mondrian, Georges Rouault, Henry Moore, and Salvador Dalí. The exhibition showcases key examples from the European and Modernist movement and reveals a period of artistic innovation that profoundly changed the course of European art.

"This exhibition is a unique and tremendously exciting opportunity for all art-lovers living in the region," said Gretchen Dietrich, UMFA Director of Public Programs & Curatorial Affairs. "The works of art that comprise the exhibition are by some of the world's most loved artists and together, they tell the fascinating story of the European modernism development from the mid-nineteenth century to the mid-twentieth century. We are proud to be hosting an exhibition of this caliber and confident that all those who come to see the exhibition and participate in the public programming that we have organized to compliment it, will have a memorable and thrilling experience."

The works in Monet to Picasso represent the core of the Cleveland Museum of Art's collection of nineteenth and twentieth century European art-one of the most significant collections in the world. This exhibition will allow UMFA visitors the rare opportunity to see an extraordinary gathering of work up close by some of the most important modern masters of the last two centuries.

Highlights include: Claude Monet's (French, 1840-1926) The Red Kerchief: Portrait of Mme. Monet (1868-70); Vincent van Gogh's (Dutch, 1853-1890) Poplars at Saint-Rémy (1889); Auguste Rodin's (French, 1840-1917) Heroic Head of Pierre de Wiessant, One of the Burghers of Calais (1886); Amedeo Modigliani's (Italian, 1884-1920) Portrait of a Woman (c. 1917-18); Henri Matisse's (French, 1869-1954) Festival of Flowers, Nice (1923); Paul Gauguin's (French, 1848-1903) In the Waves (Dans les vagues) (1889); Pablo Picasso's (Spanish, 1881-1973) Harlequin with Violin ("Si tu veux") (1918).

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