FRANKFURT.- The French painter Gustave Courbet (1819–1877) ranks among the most fascinating nineteenth-century artists. He is regarded as the crucial pioneer of political realistic painting and as a revolutionary of the Paris Commune. But Courbet …
"Show of the Year" at Tate Modern is UK’s First on French Painter Paul Gauguin in 50 Years
LONDON (REUTERS).- French painter Paul Gauguin gets his first major exhibition in Britain for over 50 years this week, and early reviews suggest it was worth the wait. Two newspapers have given the show five stars, including the Times’ Rachel Campbel…
Scholars to Present New Findings on Henri Rousseau’s Media and Methods
HOUSTON, TX.- An extraordinary gathering of art historians, curators, and conservationists will gather in Houston on Saturday, October 2 to present and discuss new research into the work of Henri Rousseau. The afternoon symposium – to be held at J…
Exhibition of Forty Prints at Fundación BBK in Bilbao Shows Henri Matisse’s Intimate Side
BILBAO.- The exhibition hall of the Fundación BBK in Bilbao hosts, from today until October 30, forty prints by Henri Matisse (1869-1954) in which the French painter shows his most intimate side. For Matisse, printmaking and drawing were not a means t…
Philadelphia Museum of Art opens Major Exhibition "Cézanne & Beyond"
PHILADELPHIA, PA – In 1907, the French painter Paul Cézanne’s posthumous retrospective astonished younger artists, accelerating the experimentation of European modernism. Cézanne (1839-1906) became for Henri Matisse “a benevolent god of pain…
New Raffaëlli Acquisition at the de Young Museum this Summer
SAN FRANCISCO, CA.- Coincidentally timed with the
special
exhibition Birth of Impressionism at the de Young Museum, John E.
Buchanan, Jr.,
the director of the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, announces the
acquisition of The Absinthe …
New Acquisition to Welcome Visitors at the de Young Museum this Summer
SAN FRANCISCO, CA.- Coincidentally timed with the special exhibition Birth of Impressionism at the de Young Museum, John E. Buchanan, Jr., the director of the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, announces the acquisition of The Absinthe Drinkers (Les …
Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza opens Monographic Exhibition Devoted to Henri Fantin-Latour
MADRID.- The Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza in Madrid is
presenting Fantin-Latour (1836-1904), the first major monographic exhibition to
be devoted in Spain to this French painter. It has been organized in conjunction
with the Fundaçao Calouste Gulbe…