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Vol. III

No. 12

issue no 31: November / December 2006

Revised for removal from www.irishdiaspora.net to www.oscholars.com February 2009

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The EXHIBITIONS page

We will be extending our coverage of exhibitions that treat of our period, the ‘long’ fin-de-siècle 1880-1914, looking chiefly at those that deal with the relevant themes of Symbolism, late Pre-Raphaelitism, Decadence, Art & Crafts and Art Nouveau, but stepping outside our boundaries from time to time.

This expansion begins with the current issue; the Editor wishes to acknowledge the encouragement he has received for this from Gabriel P. Weisberg. It will take a while to build up, and to get the format quite right, and as always we welcome news from our readers of exhibitions in their local museums and galleries: this include exhibitions devoted to the writers or composers of the period. We also include other arts news, such as the paragraph on Henry van de Velde (see below). University readers might like to draw the attention of colleagues in their Department of Art History to this.

New exhibitions will be given as a rolling list, the latest ones being added each month, old ones being removed on expiry. For exhibitions (and other matter) concerned with James McNeill Whistler, see our supplement NOCTURNE.

Click in the Table of Contents for direct access to the information about each exhibition.

We will commission reviews of as many exhibitions as we can.  As always, volunteers are appreciated.

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TABLE OF CONTENTS [There may be more than one entry per exhibition]
Americans in Paris	Pissarro, Camille
Bastien-Lapage	Pissarro, Lucien
Bonnard	Redon (1)
Bouguereau	Redon (2)
Cassatt	Ring
Cézanne	Rodin (1)
Charpentier, Alexandre	Rodin (2)
Charpentier, Gustave	Rodin (3)
Chase (1)	Rodin (4)
Chase (2)	Rops
Couperus	Sargent (1)
Degas	Sargent (2)
Denis	Schiele
Drouet, Juliette	Von Stück
Ensor (1)	Tiffany (1)
Ensor (2)	Tiffany (2)
Filiger	Toulouse-Lautrec
Gallé	Van Gogh (1)
Gleyre	Van Gogh (2)
Grigorescu	Van Gogh (3)
Hébert	Van de Velde
Homer, Winslow	Vollard (1)
Kahn	Vollard (2)
Klimt	Art Nouveau
Klinger	Impressionists (1)
Macdonald & McNair	Impressionists (2)
Manet	Impressionists (3)
Matisse	Belle époque
Monet (1)	The Nabis
Monet (2)	Orientalism
Moser	Pre-Raphaelites
Pinson, Mimi	Women, Parisian
continued in col.2	Women, New

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A ROUND UP OF CURRENT AND FORTHCOMING EXHIBITIONS

1. Americans in Paris 1860-1900

24th October 2006 – 28th January 2007
New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art

Americans in Paris, 1860–1900 completes its international tour at the Metropolitan Museum in New York City, following The National Gallery, London, and the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. The exhibition now features several important pieces—on view only at this venue—drawn from the Metropolitan's extensive holdings.

[See also Bougereau]

2. Jules Bastien-Lepage (1848-1884)

6th March 2007 – 13th May 2007

Paris, Musée d'Orsay

3. Bonnard-Matisse

7th October 2006 to 4th February 2007

Rome, Vittoriano Museum

The Museo Vittoriano in Rome is presenting an exhibition of more than 200 works. Paintings, sculptures, watercolours, gouaches, drawings – by Pierre Bonnard (1867-1947) and Henri Matisse (1869-1954), two artists who, while following very different paths, held close relations of friendship, expressed in an important correspondence.

4. In the Paris Studios : William Bouguereau and his American pupils

17th September 2006 – 31st December 2006
Tulsa, Philbrook Museum of Art

5. Cézanne in Britain

4th October 2006 – 7th January 2007

London, National Gallery

6. Alexandre-Louis-Marie Charpentier (1856-1909)

6th August 2006 – 28th January 2007

Washington, National Gallery of Art

7. Mimi Pinson et Gustave Charpentier

20th September 2006 to 22nd January 2007

Musée Montmartre

8. Louis Couperus

The Louis Couperus Museum (http://www.couperusmuseum.org/) has just closed its exhibition on Couperus’s decorated book covers (11th June – 12th November 2006) and is currently hosting ‘Turf in je ransel. Den Haag als garnizoensstad in het werk van Louis Couperus’, an exhibition about the military’s prominent presence in the writer’s hometown of The Hague. Couperus grew up in a neighbourhood that held no less than three barracks, and army officers feature frequently in his novels. The exhibition shows paintings, prints and engravings documenting life in The Hague’s three army barracks as well as artefacts of military life around 1900 and personal documents about, or belonging to, Louis Couperus.

The exhibition runs from 18th November 2006 until 29th May 2007 and is set up in conjunction with another exhibition about the development of the military genre in the nineteenth century which will be held in the Haags Gemeentemuseum (http://www.gemeentemuseum.nl/) from 23rd December 2006 until 9th April 2007.

[Information kindly provided by Eva Thienpont]

9. Edgar Degas, La famille Bellelli

1st November 2006 – 21st January 2007

Saint-Petersburg, The Hermitage

10. Maurice Denis

31st October 2006 – 21st January 2007

Paris, Musée d'Orsay
22nd February 2007 – 20th May 2007

Montréal, Musée des Beaux-Arts

11. Juliet Drouet: ‘Mon âme à ton cœur donnée’

1st December 2006 to 4th March 2007

Maison Victor Hugo, Paris

12. Ensor et les avant-gardes à la mer

30th September 2006 – 25th February 2007

Ostende, Le Musée d'Art Moderne-sur-Mer

13. Mascarade : THE WORK OF James Ensor

30th June 2007 – 22nd September 2007

Liverpool, Lady Lever Art Gallery

14. Charles Filiger et André Breton : à la recherche d l'art magique

3rd November 2006 – 5th February 2007

Quimper, Musée des Beaux-Arts

15. Emile Gallé et l'affaire Dreyfus

27th September 2006 – 10th December 2006
Nancy, Musée de l'École de Nancy

16. Charles Gleyre. Le génie de l'invention

7th October 2006 – 7th January 2007
Lausanne, Musée cantonal des Beaux-Arts

17. Nicolae Grigorescu (1838-1907). From Barbizon to Impressionism.

Regarded as one of their leading painters in his native Romania, Grigorescu almost unknown in France and probably not know at all elsewhere. This exhibition is dedicated to repairing this situation. Shown at the Musée des Beaux-Arts in Agen, 22nd April to 14th August 2006, it will be at Barbizon, Musée départemental de l'Ecole de Barbizon to 15th December.

18. Promenades italiennes (Ernest Hébert)

20th May 2006 – 31st December 2006

La Tronche, Musée Hébert

19. Gustave Kahn

Gustave Kahn, écrivain symboliste et critique d'art

24th October 2006 to 28th January 2007

Musée d'art et d'histoire du Judaïsme, Paris
The exhibition comprises around 180 works from the former Kahn collection: manuscripts, reviews, letters, and photographs as well as paintings, prints and drawings by about thirty artists, illustrating the richness of Kahn’s literary and artistic milieu.
http://www.mahj.org/fr/02_en_ce_moment/expo_gustave_kahn.php.

20. Max Klinger (1857-1920): graphiCS

20th January 2007 – 9th April 2007
Karlsruhe, Staatliche Kunsthalle

21. Doves and Dreams

The Art of Frances Macdonald and J. Herbert McNair.

(27th January – 22nd April 2007

Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool

This exhibition is devoted to the work of Frances Macdonald (1874-1921) and J. Herbert McNair (1868-1955), two important artists who have hitherto been considered as adjuncts to Charles Rennie Mackintosh and his wife, Margaret Macdonald. The exhibition is curated by Pamela Robertson, Senior Curator and Professor of Mackintosh Studies, at the Hunterian Art Gallery, University of Glasgow. There is an accompanying catalogue published by Lund Humphries.

22. Aux Folies-Bergères de Manet (provisional title)

5th June 2007 – 9th September 2007

Los Angeles, J. Paul Getty Museum

23. Monet and Normandy

15th October 2006 – 14th January 2007

Raleigh, North Carolina Museum of Art

24. The Unknown Monet : pastels et dessins

17th March 2007 – 10th June 2007

London, Royal Academy of Art
23rd June 2007 – 16th September 2007

Williamstown, Sterling & Francine Clark Art Institute

25. Kolomann Moser

11th May 2007 – 24th September 2007
Vienna, Leopold Museum

26. Pissarro : The impressionist CountrysIde

11th February 2007 – 13th May 2007

Baltimore, Museum of Art

27. Illustrating the Good Life: The Pissarros' Eragny Press, 1894-1914.

21st February – 28th April 2007

The Grolier Club, New York.

Curated by Alice Beckwith.

More information on this will be published here as it comes to hand.

28. L'univers fantasmagorique d'Odilon Redon.

Lithographies du Musée des Beaux-Arts de Montréal et du Musée des Beaux-Arts du Canada

12th October 2006 – 21st January 2007

Montréal, Musée des Beaux-Arts

29. Odilon Redon

27th January 2007 – 29th April 2007

Frankfurt, Schirn Kunsthalle

30. Paysages de Renoir 1865-1883

21st February 2007 – 20th May 2007

London, National Gallery
8th June 2007 – 9th September 2007

Ottawa, Musée des Beaux-Arts du Canada

31. Laurits Andersen Ring (1854-1933).

2nd September 2006 – 7th January 2007
Copenhagen, Statens Museum for Kunst

32. Rodin

23rd September 2006 – 1st January 2007

London, Royal Academy

This major retrospective of the work of Auguste Rodin (1840—1917) reveals the sources of Rodin’s inspiration, from his studies of unposed models to his love of the Antique. The exhibition also explores Rodin’s relationship with Britain, where he established his name as a sculptor of international standing.

This exhibition has been organised by the Royal Academy of Arts, London, and the Kunsthaus Zürich in collaboration with the Musée Rodin, Paris.

Photo © Musée Rodin/A. Rzepka

33. Rodin et l'Italie

24th November 2007 – 4th May 2008
Brescia, Museo di Santa Giulia

34. Rodin : le génie de la forme

1st September 2006 – 18th February 2007
Adelaide, Art Gallery of South Australia

35. Rodin: Les figures d’Eros

22nd November 2006 to 18th March 2007

Musée Rodin, Paris

36. Félicien Rops

The current exhibition in the Musée provincial Félicien Rops is “Poste restante à Namur. Félicien Rops, ‘indécrottable’ Namurois”, a collaboration with the Namur city photo archives which traces the artist’s presence in the street of nineteenth-century Namur. The exposition highlights the Rops family’s prominence in the cityscape of their time, and the artist’s love-hate relationship with his hometown.

Entry to the exhibition is free; a journal/catalogue is available for €5 (Authors : E. Bodart, A-M. Boggaert, M. Brix, M-C. Claes, E. Dricot, P-P. Dupont, M.Georges, M. Herman, V. Leblanc, V. Minten, N. Mokrani, M. Awouters) and a genealogy of Rops for €20 (La généalogie de Félicien Rops, par Géniwal asbl: J-L. Delsipée, G. Rousseau, A. Vroye, avec l’aide de J-M. Rousseau). 14th October 2006 – 30th December 2006; closed on 24 December.

240 works by Rops are currently on view in the brand-new Fine Arts Museum of Tallinn (KUMU Eestikunstimuuseum, http://www.ekm.ee/eng/ekm.php) in Estonia. This retrospective exhibition is a collaboration with the Musée provincial Félicien Rops and runs from 30th November 2006 until 11th February 2007.

In other news, the Rops Museum has recently acquired a Rops colour engraving entitled L’Agonie, depicting Saint Teresa in a compromising position with a skeleton.

Recent publications include a catalogue raisonné in both French and English of the work of Rops’s pupil Louis Legrand by Véronique Leblanc (160 p., 120 colour illustrations, Papadakis editions, London).

[Information kindly supplied by Eva Thienpont]

37. Sargent, Chase, Cassatt : chefs-d'œuvre d'une collection privée

1st July 2006 – 18th September 2006
Boston, Museum of Fine Arts

38. Schiele, Klimt, Kokoschka and their Viennese Circle

7th October 2006 – 8th January 2007
Rovereto, Museo d'arte moderna et contemporanea

39. Franz von Stück, Modern Lucifer

11th November 2006 – 18th March 2007
Trento, Museo d'arte moderna et contemporanea

40. Louis Comfort Tiffany : Artist for the Ages

15th October 2006 – 15th January 2007
Pittsburg, Carnegie Museum of Art

41. Louis Comfort Tiffany and Laurelton Hall. An Artist's Country Estate

21st November 2006 – 20th May 2007
New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art

42. Toulouse-Lautrec

b) Toulouse-Lautrec :Paris. Plakat. Publicité

The Horst-Janssen-Museum Oldenburg

6th October to 10th December 2006.

The Horst-Janssen Museum in Oldenburg is hosting an exhibition showing almost all large-format posters designed by Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec.

The Museum’s description of the exhibition runs:

Vom 6. Oktober bis 10. Dezember 2006 wird der Plakatkünstler Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec mit nahezu allen seinen großformatigen Plakaten erstmals im Horst-Janssen-Museum gezeigt. Seine bekannten Farblithografien mit ihren starken Kontrasten und der neuartigen Verbindung von Schrift und Bild gerieten zum Ausgangspunkt der modernen Plakatkunst. Der aus dem französischen Hochadel stammende Künstler verbrachte seine Zeit vorwiegend in Theatern, Tanzdielen, Cafés, Cabarets und Bordellen rund um den Montmartre in Paris. Auch heute noch faszinieren und begeistern seine Darstellungen des mondänen Pariser Nachtlebens, der sogenannten ‘Belle Epoque’. Besonders spannend wird es sein, den Plakatkünstler des ausgehenden 19. Jahrhunderts im Kontext des Horst-Janssen-Museums zu sehen. Janssen hat selbst weit über hundert Plakate für eigene Ausstellungen, aber auch für befreundete Künstler geschaffen.

[Information kindly supplied by Lucia Krämer]

43. Van Gogh : Gerbes de blés

22nd October 2006 – 7th January 2007

Dallas, Museum of Art

44. Vincent van Gogh in Budapest 

1st December 2006 – 18th March 2007

Budapest, Szépmüvészeti Muzeum

45. Vincent van Gogh and Expressionism

24th November 2006 – 4th March 2007

Amsterdam, Van Gogh Museum

46. Van Gogh, Les Vessenots à Auvers, 1890

19th June 2007 – 9th September 2007

Madrid, Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza

47. Henry Van de Velde

Henry Van de Velde (1863-1957) was voted on to the long list of the Greatest Belgian contest (http://www.degrootstebelg.be/dgb_master/100belgen/dgb_vandevelde_henry/index.shtml), but turned out not to stand a chance against such men as Father Damian, Paul Janssen (founder of Janssen Pharmaceutics), Eddy Merckx, Vesalius or even the Celtic chieftain Ambiorix. The architect’s legacy does not seem to be faring much better at the moment. His 1953 Boekentoren (http://www.boekentoren.be/), a magnificent example of Art Déco architecture, and especially its Belvedère, is in a bad state and needs restoration urgently. The tower is the property of Ghent University and contains some three million books. It has now been entered into a national contest, through which the University hopes to secure money for the restoration.

[Information kindly supplied by Eva Thienpont]

48. Parisian Prints : les éditions Vollard

3rd December 2006 – 30th June 2007

Indianapolis, Museum of Art

49. Cézanne to Picasso: Ambroise Vollard, Patron of the Avant-Garde.

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Special Exhibition Galleries, The Tisch Galleries, 2nd floor. 14th September 2006 to 7th January 2007.

This is the first comprehensive exhibition devoted to Ambroise Vollard (1866–1939)—the pioneer dealer, patron, and publisher who played a key role in promoting and shaping the careers of many of the leading artists during the late 19th and early 20th centuries. It includes 100 paintings, as well as dozens of ceramics, sculpture, prints, and livres d'artistes commissioned and published by Vollard, dating from the time of his appearance on the Paris art scene in the late 1880s to his death in 1939.

The exhibition features works by Bonnard, Cézanne, Degas, Derain, Gauguin, Van Gogh, Maillol, Matisse, Picasso, Redon, Renoir, Rouault, Rousseau, Vlaminck, Vuillard, and others. Highlights include five paintings from Vollard's landmark 1895 Cézanne exhibition; a never-before-reassembled triptych from his 1896–97 Van Gogh retrospective; the masterpiece Where Do We Come From? What Are We? Where Are We Going? from Vollard’s 1898 Gauguin exhibition; paintings from Picasso's first French exhibition (1901) and Matisse's first solo exhibition (1904); and three pictures from Derain's London series, painted in 1906–07 at Vollard's suggestion. The exhibition also includes numerous portraits of Vollard by leading artists, among them Cézanne, Bonnard, Renoir, and Picasso. Whether it was commissioned, exhibited, or owned by him, each of these works at one time passed through Vollard's hands.

50. Art Nouveau

L´Art Nouveau. Schenkung Ziersch

Museum Villa Stuck in Munich

24th August 2006 to 14th January 2007

The Museum Villa Stuck in Munich is showing selected art nouveau works from its collection, which were bequeathed to the museum by Hans-Joachim and Amélie Ziersch. The focus is on glass objects by French artists.

The German advertisement runs:

Ab 24. August 2005 zeigt das Museum Villa Stuck ausgewählte Werke des Art Nouveau aus eigenen Beständen, die von Hans-Joachim und Amélie Ziersch der Stiftung Villa Stuck geschenkt wurden. In den 60er Jahren wurden sie im internationalen Kunsthandel als Basis einer Jugendstilsammlung für das Museum Villa Stuck erworben. Die Sammlung stammt aus der Zeit der Wiederentdeckung der Kunst der vorletzten Jahrhundertwende und spiegelt somit das spezifische Interesse der Museen und Sammler dieser Zeit am französischen Art Nouveau wieder.

Präsentiert werden Kunstgläser der führenden Manufakturen in Nancy, wie Emile Gallé, Daum Frères, sowie anderer Glaskünstler des Art Nouveau wie René Lalique, Désiré Christian & Sohn. Von François-Emile Décorchement stammen kostbare, dünnwandige Gefäße aus pâte de verre. Unter den Keramiken befinden sich Werke von Pierre Clément Massier und Pierre Adrien Dalpayrat. Die Ausstellung wird durch das großartige Glasfenster Pfau und Pfingstrosen des amerikanischen Malers und Glaskünstlers John La Farge (1835-1910) ergänzt - sein einziges Werk außerhalb der U.S.A. Ein Blumenfenster des Franzosen François-Emile Décorchement wird gegenübergestellt.

[Information kindly supplied by Lucia Krämer]

51. Giverny impressionniste : une colonie d'artistes, 1885-1915

1st April 2007 – 1st July 2007

Giverny, Musée d'Art Américain
22 July 2007 - 1er October 2007

San Diego, Museum of Art

52. The Impressionists at the Seaside

20th October 2007 – 13th January 2008
Washington, Phillips Collection

53. Vive la parisienne : women seen by the Impressionists

30th September 2006 – 10th December 2006

Compton Verney, Warwickshire, England

54. Off the Pedestal : New Women in the art of winslow Homer, Chase et Sargent

4th November 2006 – 14th January 2007

Pittsburgh, Frick Art & Historical Center

55. La belle époque : works on paper, 1885-1915

16th December 2006 – 28th March 2007
Worcester, Art Museum

56. De Caillebotte à Picasso. Chefs-d'œuvre de la collection Oscar Ghez

12th October 2006 – 7th January 2007

Québec, Musée National des Beaux-Arts

57. The Nabis and their Contemporaries. Prints from the collection of the Hermitage

1st November 2006 – 28th February 2007
Saint-Petersburg, The Hermitage

58. [Orientalism] Pierre Loti. Fantômes d'Orient

27th June 2006 – 3rd December 2006
Paris, Musée de la Vie Romantique

59. Waking dreams : The Art of the Pre-Raphaelites at the Delaware Art Museum

27th October 2006 – 7th January 2007
Cincinnati, Art Museum
18th February 2007 – 29th April 2007
Saint Louis, Art Museum
19 May 2007 - 29 July 2007
San Diego, Museum of Art

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