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Louisiana Museum Presents Exhibition from the Merzbacher Collection

HUMBLEBAEK.- This spring’s major exhibition at Louisiana centres on colour: colour in art, in the world and in the eye. In words, pictures and through interactive programmes the exhibition will present the ways in which artists throughout the twentieth century either made use of colour as a medium of expression or researched it to find new colours and colour systems. Louisiana has been given a unique opportunity to choose freely from works in the Swiss Werner & Gabrielle Merzbacher’s rich collection, which was described in The New York Times in 1999 as “one of the world’s finest private collections of modern art”. The selection of the works has been made with colour as the point of departure, and along with a number of works from the Louisiana’s collection we are showing them in an exhibition about colour in art