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October sees the opening at the Museo del Prado of the first
exhibition in Spain devoted to the work of Édouard Manet (1832-1883).
The exhibition, entitled Manet at the Prado, has been made possible
through The exhibition will include examples of all the different genres in which the artist worked – portrait, still life painting, history and religious painting – and will offer a broad survey spanning his entire career, starting with his early years (The Spanish Singer, 1860, and Mlle. Victorine dressed as a Matador, 1862, New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art) when he focused on Spanish themes in a for a modern mode of representation. It covers his trip to the Museo del Prado, which was crucially important for his “Spanish period” (The Balcony, 1868-69, Paris, Musée d’Orsay), culminating with the works of his maturity. Particularly significant is the inclusion of one of the impressionist masterpieces of his last years, A Bar at the Folies-Bergère of 1881-82, which is rarely loaned from the Courtauld Institute of Art in London. The exhibition has been made possible
through the support of more than 30 institutions and private collections
who have contributed through generous loans of works. It will therefore
be possible to see many of Manet’s finest painting on show in the
Prado, including the Portrait of Émile Zola (Paris, Musée d’Orsay),
the Petits Cavaliers (Virginia, Chrysler Museum of Art), Guitar and Hat
(Avignon, Musée Calvet), Before the Mirror (New York, The Solomon R.
Guggenhim Museum), the Portrait of Faure in the Role of Hamlet (Hamburg,
Kunsthalle), In the Concervatory (Berlin, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin,
Gemäldegalerie) and two versions of the Execution of Maximilian
(Copenhagen, Ny Carlsberg Glypototek and Boston, Museum of Fine Arts),
in which Manet treated a subject from contemporary history –the
execution of the Emperor Maximilian of Mexico in 1867 - on a monumental
scale. The exhibition will be held in the main galleries of the Museo del Prado, located on the first floor. As a prelude to the exhibition, some works by the artist will be hung in the Central Gallery of the Museum which houses works by artists of the Spanish school, from Ribera to Velázquez and Murillo to Goya, emphasising his relationship to the Spanish Golden Age painters and to Goya, and the key influence that his visit to the Prado in 1865 had on his work. The exhibition is supported by the Regional Office for the Promotion of Tourism in the Region of Madrid (Turmadrid), the Madrid Institute for Development (IMADE) and the Department of Economy and Planning of the Region of Madrid. continue> From Artdaily.com |
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Édouard
Manet Amazon with blue background,1882-83 Oil on canvas, 73 x 52 cm Madrid, Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza |
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Édouard
Manet Berthe Morisot with violets, 1872 Oil on canvas, 55.5 x 40.5 cm Paris, Musee d’Orsay |
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Édouard
Manet The Railroad, 1873 Oil on canvas Washington D.C., National Gallery of Art |
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Édouard
Manet El Pifano, 1866 Paris, Musee d’Orsay |
| Curator:
Manuela Mena, Senior Curator of 18th-century Painting at the Museo
Nacional del Prado, working with a team of Spanish and international
specialists.
Catalogue (Spanish and English): The exhibition will be accompanied by an exhaustive catalogue which includes texts on the life and art of Édouard Manet and on his relations with Spain, written by Spanish and international experts: Françoise Cachin, former director of the Musée d’Orsay and subsequently of the National Museums of France; Juliet Wilson-Bareau, art historian and specialist in Goya and Manet; Manuela Mena Marqués, Senior Curator of 18th-century Painting at the Prado; Valeriano Bozal, Professor of Art History at the Universidad Complutense, Madrid; Angel González, Professor of Art History at the Universidad Complutense, Madrid; and Gudrun Mühle-Maurer, art historian. End. From Artdaily.com |
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