John Singer Sargent (1856 – 1925), Venetian Wineshop, ca. 1902, oil on canvas, cm 55,9x71,1. Private Collection. "Courtesy of Adelson Galleries, New York".

VENICE, ITALY.- Museo Correr presents Sargent and Venice, on view through July 22, 2007. After “Turner and Venice”, another show which charts a great artist’s response to the city and its lagoon. Venice was, in fact, the place best loved by John Singer Sargent (1856-1925), the most important of American ‘Impressionists’, who was born in Florence and lived for most of his life in Europe.
Housed within the neoclassical rooms on the first floor of the Museo Correr, the exhibition – curated by Warren Adelson, Elizabeth Oustinoff and Giandomenico Romanelli– is the fruit of collaboration between the Musei Civici Veneziani and Adelson Galleries of New York; it will include approximately sixty works (paintings and watercolours) dating from 1880-1913. There are loans not only from the Brooklyn Museum, the Philadelphia Museum of Art, The National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., the Royal Academy of Arts in London and the Thyssen-Bornemisza in Madrid, but also from numerous private collections. Thus, the public has the opportunity to see masterpieces that are rarely if ever placed on public display. The exhibition includes also a section (ten paintings) dedicated to contemporary Venetian painters. Lire la suite http://www.artdaily.com/section/news/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=19899