De Young Museum to Host Two Impressionism Exhibitions
By STAN PARCHIN
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Interior of the Musée d’Orsay in Paris. Courtesy of the Musée d’Orsay. |
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Edouard Manet (French, 1832-1883). The Fifer (1866). Oil on canvas. 161 x 97 cm (63.4 x 38.2 in.). Musée d'Orsay, Paris. Photo credit: Réunion des Musées Nationaux/Art Resource, NY. |
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James Abbott McNeill Whistler (American, 1834-1903). Arrangement in Gray and Black No. 1 or Portrait of the Artist's Mother (1871). Oil on canvas. 144.53 x 162.5 cm (56.9 x 162.5 in.). Musée d'Orsay, Paris. Photo credit: Erich Lessing/Art Resource, NY. |
July 31, 2009
The M.H. de Young Museum in San Francisco, California is hosting two consecutive exhibitions of Impressionist and Post-Impressionist paintings from the Musée d’Orsay while the Parisian institution is partially closed for renovation and reinstallation in preparation for its 25th anniversary in 2011.
Birth of Impressionism: Masterpieces from the Musée d’Orsay (May 22-September 6, 2010) features nearly 100 paintings by artists who lived in France during the mid-19th Century. Represented are: naturalists William Adolphe Bourgereau and Gustave Courbet; American expatriate James McNeill Whistler; and Edouard Manet, Frédéric Bazille, Berthe Morisot, Claude Monet, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Alfred Sisley and Edgar Degas. After its debut in Madrid, Spain in Spring 2010, Birth of Impressionism... concludes its United States tour at the Frist Center for the Visual Arts in Nashville, Tennessee (October 15, 2010-January 30, 2011).
Highlights of the exhibition include: The Fife Player by Manet (1866); Arrangement in Gray and Black No. 1 or Portrait of the Artist's Mother (1871) by Whistler; Saint-Lazare Station (1877) by Monet; The Swing (1876) by Renoir; and Portraits at the Stock Exchange (1878-79) by Degas.
Van Gogh, Gauguin, Cézanne and Beyond: Post-Impressionist Masterpieces from the Musée d’Orsay (September 25, 2010-January 18, 2011) features 120 late Impressionist works by Monet, Renoir, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, Vincent van Gogh, Paul Cézanne, Paul Gauguin, Pierre Bonnard, Edouard Vuillard and Henri Rousseau. Special attention is paid to Georges Seurat, Paul Signac and other Pointillist painters.
Among the canvases on display are: A Day in the Country (1883) by Renoir; The Circus (1891) by Seurat; Starry Night over the Rhone (1888) by van Gogh; Portrait of the Artist with the Yellow Christ (1889) by Gauguin; and The Snake Charmer (1907) by Henri Rousseau.
Van Gogh, Gauguin, Cézanne and Beyond... debuts at the National Gallery of Australia in Canberra from December 4, 2009 to April 5, 2010.
Timed and dated tickets for both exhibitions go on sale to groups on October 1, 2009, to members on January 31, 2010 and to the public on March 15, 2010.
San Francisco's Legion of Honor is concurrently hosting Impressionist Paris: City of Light (May 22-September 6, 2010) and The Japanese Print in the Era of Impressionism (September 25, 2010-January 2, 2011).
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