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17 novembre 2015

New exhibition at the Albright-Knox Art Gallery explores Monet and the Impressionist Revolution, 1860-1910

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Claude Monet (French, 1840–1926). Les Glaçons (The Ice Floes), 1880. Oil on canvas, 46 3/16 x 66 1/4 x 3 1/2 inches (117.32 x 168.28 x 8.89 cm). Collection of Shelburne Museum, Shelburne, Vermont, Gift of Electra Havemeyer Webb Fund, Inc., 1972-69.2. Image courtesy of Shelburne Museum.

BUFFALO, NY.- On November 15, the Albright-Knox Art Gallery opened a new exhibition comprising prominent works by Claude Monet (French, 1840–1926) and other leading artists associated with the Impressionist movement. Monet and the Impressionist Revolution, 1860–1910, conceived by Peggy Pierce Elfvin Director Janne Sirén and organized by Sirén and Godin-Spaulding Curator & Curator for the Collection Holly E. Hughes, features forty late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century works from the Albright-Knox’s renowned Collection, as well as a carefully selected group of paintings by Monet on loan from museums around the United States. The exhibition illustrates the artist’s seminal contributions to the modernist revolution. 

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Claude Monet (French, 1840–1926)., "The Break-up of the Ice”, 1880. Collection University of Michigan Museum of Art.

Monet and the Impressionist Revolution reveals the arc of five decades of artistic innovation, from the late nineteenth-century en plein-air painters, early Impressionists, and so-called post-Impressionists and Fauves, to the abstractions of Pablo Picasso (Spanish, 1881–1973) and Wassily Kandinsky (Russian, 1866–1944) at the turn of the century.  

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Claude Monet (French, 1840–1926). Water Lilies, 1908. Oil on canvas, 31 1/2 inches (80 cm) in diameter. Collection Dallas Museum of Art, Gift of the Meadows Foundation, Incorporated. Image courtesy Dallas Museum of Art.

Monet believed that the constantly changing conditions he strove to capture by painting outdoors imbued his subjects with true value. In this pursuit, he broke away from linear perspective and other techniques and forms associated with traditional, academic painting. Instead, he experimented with the introduction of bold colors, looser handling of paint, and an emphasis on color and light.  

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Claude Monet (French, 1840–1926). On the Bank of the Seine, Bennecourt, 1868. Oil on canvas, 32 1/8 x 39 5/8 inches (81.5 x 100.7 cm). Collection Art Institute of Chicago, Potter Palmer Collection, 1922.427.

The trajectory of Monet’s work in this exhibition is illuminated by a selection of key works from the Albright-Knox Art Gallery’s Collection dating from the 1860s, the heyday of Realism in Western art, through the years leading to World War I and the birth of abstract painting.  

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Claude Monet (French, 1840–1926), Chemin de halage à Argenteuil, ca. 1875. Oil On Canvas, overall: 32 1/2 x 48 1/4 x 4 inches, overall: 82.55 x 122.56 x 10.16 cm. Albright-Knox Art Gallery Room of Contemporary Art Fund, 1939. 1919:8.

On the occasion of this exhibition, the museum will publish The Impressionist Revolution and the Advent of Abstract Art. Authored by Dr. Sirén and available in Shop AK and on the AK’s website in February 2016, this book will explore the transformative moments and formal innovations in avant-garde Western art in the second half of the nineteenth century that tilled the ground for the advent of abstract painting around 1910. It will be the first catalogue dedicated to this particular segment of the museum’s holdings, highlighting fifty Impressionist, post-Impressionist, and early abstract paintings and sculptures from the Albright-Knox Art Gallery’s world-renowned Collection. 

The exhibition will remain on view until March 20, 2016, in the museum’s 1962 Building.

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Édouard Manet (French, 1832–1883). Portrait of Isabelle Lemonnier with a Muff, ca. 1879. Oil on canvas, 47 1/8 x 39 1/4 x 4 1/2 inches. (119.7 x 99.7 x 11.4 cm). Collection Dallas Museum of Art, gift of Mr. and Mrs. Algur H. Meadows and the Meadows Foundation, Incorporated. Image courtesy Dallas Museum of Art.

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Gustave Courbet (French, 1819–1877). La Source de la Loue (The Source of the Loue), ca. 1864. Oil on canvas, 42 1/4 x 54 1/8 inches (107.3 x 137.5 cm). Collection Albright-Knox Art Gallery, George B. and Jenny R. Mathews Fund, 1959. Photograph by Biff Henrich.

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Paul Gauguin (French, 1848–1903). Le Christ jaune (The Yellow Christ), 1889. Oil on canvas, 36 1/4 x 28 7/8 inches (92.1 x 73.3 cm). Collection Albright-Knox Art Gallery, General Purchase Funds, 1946. Photograph by Tom Loonan.

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Georges Seurat  (French, 1859–1891), Étude pour "Le Chahut", 1889 Oil On Canvas overall: 33 3/4 x 30 3/8 x 4 1/2 in. overall: 85.73 x 77.15 x 11.43 cm Albright-Knox Art Gallery General Purchase Funds, 1943. 1943:10

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