‘Masterpieces from the Guggenheim Foundation From Manet to Picasso: The Thannhauser Collection’ which opened today brings to Aix around fifty major works from this prestigious collection: visitors can see paintings by the masters of Impressionism and post-Impressionism, as well as the major figures of modern art, from Manet to Picasso, and Degas, Gauguin, Cézanne, Van Gogh, Braque, and Matisse.
Justin K. Thannhauser (1892–1976), helped his father, Heinrich Thannhauser, to run Munich’s Moderne Galerie, founded in 1909. Father and son organised exhibitions of French Impressionists and post-Impressionists, as well as contemporary German artists. The gallery also held one of the first major retrospectives of Picasso’s work in 1913, the start of a close friendship between Justin Thannhauser and the artist.
In 1941, Justin Thannhauser moved to New York and soon established himself as an art dealer in the United States. As he had no successor, he bequeathed the major works in his collection to the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation in New York.
Parterre de Fleurs, Paul Klee
Among the paintings displayed at the Hôtel de Caumont, will be Cézanne’s ‘Bibémus’ (Bibémus Quarries), which will return for the first time to Aix, where it was painted circa 1894–1895.
Daily, 10-19:00hrs Full Details: https://www.caumont-centredart.com/en
Until 29 September 2019
If it is your first visit to this lovely art centre, do build in time for either lunch in the beautifully-restored gardens, or tea and cake in the elegant dining rooms…..memorable!
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