Cézanne and the Modern: Masterpieces of European Art from the Pearlman Collection: Cézanne , Degas, van Gogh, Soutine and Modigliani

Venues

Ashmolean Museum of Art and Archaeology, University of Oxford, Oxford, England (March 13 – June 22, 2014),
Musée Granet, Aix - e n - Provence, France (July 11 – October 5, 2014)
High Museum of Art, Atlanta, USA (October 25, 2014 – January 11, 2015).
Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, Canada (February 14 – May 18, 2015),

Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton, N.J. (Sept ember 12, 2015 – January 3, 2016).

Cézanne and the Modern: Masterpieces of European Art from the Pearlman Collection is a major travelling exhibition featuring an exceptional collection of modernist works by European masters. Totaling 50 artworks, this exhibition includes paintings by Paul Cézanne , Edgar Degas, Édouard Manet Amedeo Modigliani, Camille Pissarro , Chaïm Soutine and Vincent van Gogh, as well as sculpture by Paul Gauguin, Wilhelm Lembruck and Jacques Lipchitz . The jewel of the exhibition is an astonishing group of 24 works by Paul Cézanne that covers his entire career as an artist , including six oils — such as the major

Paul Cézanne, Mont Sainte - Victoire (La Montagne Sainte - Victoire) , c. 1904 - 06, oil on canvas, The Henry and Rose Pearlman Foundation, on long - term loan to the Princeton University Art Museum

Mont Sainte - Victoire (1904 – 06); two drawings; and sixteen watercolours which constitute one of the finest and best - preserved groups of Cézanne’s watercolours in the world .

This exceptional art collection was built by Henry and Rose Pearlman during the 1940s and 19 50s. Henry Pearlman (1895 – 1974) was a New York City business man who passionately collected European avant - garde art since 1945 until the end of his life. Central to the Pearlman’s collecting interests were two artists, the great expressionist painter Chaim Soutine, of whose work Henry Pearlman was one of the earliest American collectors, and, most importantly, Paul Cézanne ( 1895 – 1974) . Organized by the Princeton University Art Museum in cooperation with the Henry and Rose Pearlman Foundation , this exhibition marks the first time in over 50 years that the Pearlman Collection has traveled asacollection,.

Other key artworks in the exhibition include:

Edgar Degas, After the Bath, Woman Drying Herself (Après le bain, femme s’essuyant) , 1890s, oil on canvas, The Henry and Rose Pearlman Foundation, on long - term loan to the Princeton University Art Museum

Degas’ After the Bath, Woman Drying Herself , from the 1890s, a magnificent example of how the artist’s radical vision transformed the depiction of the female body in the late 19th century;

Vincent van Gogh, Tarascon Stagecoach (La diligence de Tarascon), 1888, oil on canvas, The Henry and Rose Pearlman Foundation, on long - term loan to the Princeton University Art Museum

Van Gogh’s La diligence de Tarascon (Tarascon Stagecoach) (1888), a colourful and unusual composition that reveals the artist’s willingness to paint unconventional views and find beauty in the everyday ;

Amedeo Modigliani (Italian, 1884–1920)

Jean Cocteau, 1916

Oil on canvas

100.4 x 81.3 cm. (39 1/2 x 32 in.)

Signed upper left: Modigliani

and Modigliani’s monumental portrait Jean Cocteau (1916), which is one of the artist’s most important paintings.

More images from the collection:

Édouard Manet (French, 1832–1883)

Young Woman in a Round Hat, ca. 1877–79

Oil on canvas

54.6 x 45.1 cm. (21 1/2 x 17 3/4 in.)

Signed lower right: Manet

Paul Cézanne (French, 1839–1906)

Standing Bather Seen from Behind, ca. 1879-82

Oil on canvas

27.0 x 17.1 cm. (10 5/8 x 6 3/4 in.)

Edgar Degas (French, 1834–1917)

The Morning Bath, ca. 1886

Pastel on buff wove paper

67 x 52.1 cm. (26 3/8 x 20 1/2 in.)

Signed lower left: Degas

Pierre Auguste Renoir (French, 1841–1919)

Nu Dans un Paysage, ca. 1887

Oil on canvas

21 x 31.7 cm. (8 1/4 x 12 1/2 in.)

Signed lower right: Renoir

Paul Cézanne (French, 1839–1906)

Three Pears, ca. 1888–90

Watercolor, gouache, and graphite on cream laid paper

24.2 x 31 cm. (9 1/2 x 12 3/16 in.)

Paul Cézanne (French, 1839–1906)

Cistern in the Park of Chateau Noir, ca. 1900

Oil on canvas

74.3 x 61.0 cm. (29 1/4 x 24 in.)

Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec (French, 1864–1901)

Messaline, 1900-01

oil on canvas

97.8 x 78.7 cm. (38 1/2 x 31 in.)

Signed lower left with stamped monogram TL