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Exhibition Review
Greco. Grand Palais, Paris
02/2020 | 1403 | 162
Pages: 144-145
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Reviewer:
Marías, Fernando (Marías, Fernando)
Subjects
artists:
El Greco
dates:
2010-2019
museums and institutions:
Grand Palais, Paris, France
places:
France
styles:
Mannerism
subjects:
Religious art / French art / Art historiography
Reviewed Items
subjects:
Greco Grand Palais, Paris 16th October 2019–10th February | :
Illustrations
Attributed works:
10. Resurrected Christ, by El Greco. 1595–98. Polychrome wood, 47 by 12.5 by 24 cm. (Private collection; exh. Grand Palais, Paris).
Exhibition Review
Toulouse-Lautrec: Resolutely Modern. Grand Palais, Paris
01/2020 | 1402 | 162
Pages: 64-67
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Reviewer:
Thomson, Richard (Thomson, Richard)
Subjects
artists:
Toulouse-Lautrec, Henri de
dates:
2010-2019
media:
Posters / Photographs / Sketches / Drawings / Gouaches / Paintings
museums and institutions:
Grand Palais, Paris, France
places:
Paris
subjects:
French art / Models (people) / Portraits / Dancers / Prostitution / Comedians
Reviewed Items
subjects:
Toulouse-Lautrec: Resolutely Modern Grand Palais, Paris 9th October 2019–27th January | :
Illustrations
Attributed works:
16. Yvette Guilbert singing Linger, Longer, Loo, by Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec. 1894. Peinture à l’essence on cardboard, 58 by 44 cm. (Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts, Moscow; exh. Grand Palais, Paris).
Attributed works:
17. In bed, by Henri de Toulouse- Lautrec. c.1892. Oil on cardboard, 53.5 by 70 cm. (Musée d’Orsay, Paris; exh. Grand Palais, Paris).
Exhibition Review
Kupka: Pioneer of Abstraction. Grand Palais, Paris
07/2018 | 1384 | 160
Pages: 591-593
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Reviewer:
Masters, Christopher (Masters, Christopher)
Subjects
art literature:
Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm / Swedenborg, Emanuel / Leighten, Patricia
artists:
Kupka, František
dates:
2010-2019
media:
Paintings
museums and institutions:
Grand Palais, Paris, France / Ateneum Art Museum, Helsinki, Finland / Národní Galerie, Prague, Czech Republic
places:
France / Paris / Finland / Helsinki / Czech Republic / Prague
subjects:
Czech painting / Abstract art / Symbolist movement / Salon d'Automne, Paris / Visual sources / Anarchism / Surveys
subjects:
Salon des réalités nouvelles / Antisemitism / Theosophy
Illustrations
Attributed works:
20. Amorpha: fugue in two colours, by František Kupka. 1912. Canvas, 211 by 220 cm. (National Gallery, Prague; exh. Grand Palais, Paris).
Attributed works:
21. Around a point, by František Kupka. 1920–30. Canvas, 194.5 by 200 cm. (Centre Pompidou, Musée national d’art moderne, Paris; exh. Grand Palais, Paris).
Attributed works:
22. Water (the bather), by František Kupka. 1906–09. Canvas, 63 by 80 cm. (Centre Pompidou, Paris; exh. Grand Palais, Paris).
Exhibition Review
Irving Penn. New York, Paris and São Paulo
09/2017 | 1374 | 159
Pages: 760-761
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Reviewer:
Westerbeck, Colin (Westerbeck, Colin)
Subjects
artists:
Penn, Irving
media:
Photography
museums and institutions:
Grand Palais, Paris, France
museums and institutions:
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, United States
Reviewed Items
museums and institutions:
Irving Penn: Centennial | :
Illustrations
Attributed works:
92. Two Miyake warriors, by Irving Penn. 1998 (Promised gift of the Irving Penn Foundation to the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; exh. Grand Palais, Paris).
Attributed works:
93. Nude no. 130, New York, by Irving Penn. 1949–50 (The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; exh. Grand Palais, Paris).
Attributed works:
94. Rochas mermaid dress (Lisa Fonssagrives-Penn), by Irving Penn. 11950 (Promised gift of the Irving Penn Foundation to the Metropolian Museum of Art, New York; exh. Grand Palais, Paris).
Exhibition Review
Gauguin. Chicago and Paris
09/2017 | 1374 | 159
Pages: 761-762
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Reviewer:
Childs, Elizabeth C. (Childs, Elizabeth C.)
Subjects
artists:
Gauguin, Paul
media:
Ceramics / Paintings / Sculpture
museums and institutions:
Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, United States / Grand Palais, Paris, France
Reviewed Items
museums and institutions:
Gauguin: The Artist as Alchemist | :
Illustrations
Attributed works:
95. Rupe Tahiti (Hurrah, Tahiti), by Paul Gauguin. 1893 (New Orleans Museum of Art; exh. Art Institute of Chicago)
Attributed works:
96. Resurrection sarcophagus-like casket, by Paul Gauguin. 1884–85 (The Kelton Foundation, Santa Monica; exh. Art Institute of Chicago).
Article
The Rodin centenary
06/2017 | 1371 | 159
Pages: 460-464
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Author:
Vandenbrouck, Melanie (Vandenbrouck, Melanie; Vandenbrouck-Przybylski, Melanie)
Subjects
artists:
Rodin, Auguste
dates:
2010-2019
museums and institutions:
Musée Rodin, Paris, France / Grand Palais, Paris, France / Courtauld Gallery, London, Great Britain
subjects:
French sculpture / Centenaries / Exhibitions / Reviews / Collections, Public
Illustrations
Attributed works:
16. I am beautiful, by Auguste Rodin. 1886 (Musée Rodin, Paris)
Attributed works:
17. Installation view of the Musée Rodin's permanent collection, showing Rodin's bronze Walking man. 1900
Attributed works:
18. Cutout of a female nude with long hair, bending backwards, by Auguste Rodin. After 1896 (Musée Rodin, Paris; exh. Courtauld Gallery, London)
Attributed works:
19. Dance Movement I, by Auguste Rodin. c.1911 (Musée Rodin, Paris; exh. Courtauld Gallery, London)
Attributed works:
20. Folk thing zero, by Georg Baselitz. 2009 (Private collection; exh. Grand Palais, Paris)
Attributed works:
21. Female nude leaning out of an antique vase, by Auguste Rodin. 1895-1910 (Musée Rodin, Paris; exh. Grand Palais, Paris)
Exhibition Review
Mexican modernism. Paris and Dallas; Philadelphia, Mexico City and Houston
03/2017 | 1368 | 159
Pages: 247-248
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Reviewer:
Sullivan, Edward J. (Sullivan, Edward J.; S., E. J.)
Subjects
artists:
Kahlo, Frida / Rivera, Diego / Orozco, José Clemente
dates:
2010-2019
museums and institutions:
Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, United States / Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, United States / Palacio de Bellas Artes, Mexico City, Mexico / Grand Palais, Paris, France / Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Houston, United States
places:
United States / Paris / Philadelphia / Mexico / Mexico City / Houston / Dallas / France
subjects:
Reviews / Exhibitions / Mexican painting / Modernism
Illustrations
Attributed works:
78. Self-portrait on the border line between Mexico and the United States, by Frida Kahlo. 1932 (Banco de México Diego Rivera & Frida Kahlo Museums Trust, Mexico City; exh. Museo del Palacio de Bellas Artes, Mexico City)
Attributed works:
79. Detail of Río Juchitán, by Diego Rivera. 1953-55 (Museo Nacional de Arte, Mexico City, on loan from Instituto Nacional de Bellas Artes; exh. Grand Palais, Paris, and Dallas Museum of Art)
Attributed works:
80. Optic Parable, by Manuel Alvarez Bravo. 1931 (Philadelphia Museum of Art; exh. Museo del Palacio de Bellas Artes, Mexico City)
Exhibition Review
Elisabeth Vigée Le Brun
12/2015 | 1353 | 157
Pages: 875-876
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Reviewer:
Walczak, Gerrit (Walczak, Gerrit)
Subjects
artists:
Vigée-LeBrun, Elisabeth Louise
dates:
2010-2019
museums and institutions:
Grand Palais, Paris, France / Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, United States / National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, Canada
places:
Paris / Ottawa / United States / New York / France / Canada
subjects:
Reviews / Exhibitions
Illustrations
Attributed works:
67. Anne de Rabaudy de Montoussin, comtesse de Cérès (?), by Elisabeth Vigée Le Brun. 1784 (Toledo Museum of Art; exh. Grand Palais, Paris)
Attributed works:
68. Hubert Robert, by Elisabeth Vigée Le Brun. 1788 (Musée du Louvre, Paris; exh. Grand Palais, Paris)
Exhibition Review
Autumn exhibitions
01/2015 | 1342 | 157
Pages: 51-53
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Reviewer:
Vernon, Jonathan (Vernon, Jonathan ; V., J.)
Subjects
artists:
Bernard, Emile / Saint Phalle, Niki de / Monet, Claude
collectors and dealers:
Durand-Ruel, Paul
dates:
2010-2019
museums and institutions:
Musée Marmottan Monet, Paris, France / Musée du Luxembourg, Paris, France / Musée national de l'Orangerie, Paris, France / Grand Palais, Paris, France / National Gallery, London, Great Britain / Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, United States / Kunsthalle Bremen, Bremen, Germany / Guggenheim Museum Bilbao, Bilbao, Spain
places:
United States / Spain / Paris / Philadelphia / London / Germany / France / England / Bilbao / Bremen
subjects:
Reviews / Exhibitions
Illustrations
Attributed works:
59. Soleil couchant sur la Seine, effet d'hiver, by Claude Monet (Petit Palais, Musée des Beaux-Arts de la Ville de Paris; exh. Musée Marmottan Monet, Paris)
Attributed works:
60. Peupliers, trois arbres roses, automne, by Claude Monet (Philadelphia Museum of Art; exh. Musée du Luxembourg, Paris)
Attributed works:
61. Parc à moutons, clair de lune, by Jean-François Millet (Walters Art Museum, Baltimore; exh. Musée du Luxembourg, Paris)
Attributed works:
62. Self-portrait, by Emile Bernard (Musée des Beaux-Arts, Brest; exh. Musée de l'Orangerie, Paris)
Attributed works:
63. Installation view of Niki de Saint Phalle at the Grand Palais, Paris, showing (left) Dolorès; Black Rosy, Ou My Heart belongs to Rosy; and (right) Les trois grâces, by Niki de Saint Phalle
Exhibition Review
The Emperor Augustus
06/2014 | 1335 | 156
Pages: 405-407
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Reviewer:
Booms, Dirk (Booms, Dirk)
Subjects
dates:
2010-2019
museums and institutions:
Grand Palais, Paris, France / Scuderie Papali al Quirinale, Rome, Italy
places:
Rome / Paris / France / Italy
subjects:
Reviews / Exhibitions / Roman (ancient) sculpture / Augustus, Emperor of Rome, 63 B.C.-14 A.D.
Illustrations
Western art unattributed:
74. Head of Augustus from an over-life-sized statue found at Meroe, present Sudan (British Museum, London; exh. Grand Palais, Paris)
Western art unattributed:
75. Procession at Actium, detail from a marble frieze of eleven surviving blocks (Fundación Casa Ducal de Medinacelli, Casa de Pilatos, Seville; exh. Grand Palais, Paris)
Western art unattributed:
76. Statue of Augustus from the Prima Porta, excavated 1863 (Vatican Museums, Vatican City; exh. Grand Palais, Paris)
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