Anyone extolling the virtues of Cézanne to Picasso: Ambroise Vollard, Patron of the Avant-Garde, at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, should start with one caveat: As with most blockbusters, the exhibition of paintings, sculptures, drawings, prints, books, ceramics—you name it—is impossible to take in during a single visit. There’s a ton of stuff to look Read More
Anyone extolling the virtues of Cézanne to Picasso: Ambroise Vollard, Patron of the Avant-Garde, at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, should start with one caveat: As with most blockbusters, the exhibition of paintings, sculptures, drawings, prints, books, ceramics—you name it—is impossible to take in during a single visit. There’s a ton of stuff to look Read More
The French painter Edgar Degas (1834-1917) was in some respects the most misunderstood artist of his generation. While his character and his talents disposed him to honor tradition—it was said that the Louvre was Degas’ temple and Ingres his god—he’s nonetheless been identified by art historians as an ally of the Impressionist avant-garde. Owing to Read More
The French painter Edgar Degas (1834-1917) was in some respects the most misunderstood artist of his generation. While his character and his talents disposed him to honor tradition—it was said that the Louvre was Degas’ temple and Ingres his god—he’s nonetheless been identified by art historians as an ally of the Impressionist avant-garde. Owing to Read More
Five hundred works of art: Just thinking about taking in so many
during the course of one exhibition is enough to provoke a migraine. What
single artist has created that much, let alone that much worthy of serious
consideration? There’s Edgar Degas. The retrospective of his paintings,
drawings, prints and sculptures Read More
Five hundred works of art: Just thinking about taking in so many during the course of one exhibition is enough to provoke a migraine. What single artist has created that much, let alone that much worthy of serious consideration? There’s Edgar Degas. The retrospective of his paintings, drawings, prints and sculptures seen at the Met Read More
In the ranks of the 19th-century Paris avant-garde, Mary Cassatt (1844-1926) was at once an anomaly and a sensation-an American lady from a family of Philadelphia bankers who was invited by no less an artistic eminence than Edgar Degas to show her work with the Impressionists in their groundbreaking exhibitions in the years 1879-86. She Read More
Another Impressionist show? That’s how most of us who take an interest in the art scene reacted to the news that the Metropolitan Museum of Art would present The Age of Impressionism: European Painting from the Ordrupgaard Collection, Copenhagen . It’s a question laced with cynicism. Any show dedicated to Impressionist art equals boffo box Read More
It has long been recognized that the American painter Mary Cassatt (1844-1926), who won considerable renown as a member of the Impressionist circle in Paris, was also one of the master printmakers of her generation in France. Yet with the recent discovery of a cache of more than 200 “lost” prints and drawings from the Read More
Of the mounting of exhibitions devoted to the masters of Impressionism there appears to be no end. Hardly a season is now allowed to pass without some show or other drawn from the capacious oeuvres of Impressionism’s Big Four-Claude Monet (1840-1926), Pierre Auguste Renoir (1841-1919), Edgar Degas (1834-1917) and Camille Pissarro (1830-1906)-or otherwise based on Read More
