American Impressionism
dal 3/11/2014 al 31/1/2015
Segnalato da
3/11/2014
American Impressionism
Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid
The exhibition includes nearly 80 paintings that allow for an analysis of the way in which North American artists discovered Impressionism in the 1880s and 1890s and its subsequent development around 1900.
Following the exhibition of French Impressionism organised by the art dealer Paul Durand-Ruel in New York in 1886, American artists began to deploy the new brushstroke, brilliant colours and fleeting effects characteristic of the French movement, and many of these artists decided go to Paris in order to become acquainted with it at first hand.
This exhibition will be the first in Spain to focus on the spread of Impressionism in the USA. Its curator, Katherine Bourguignon, curator of the Terra Foundation for American Art Europe, will make use of the approximately 60 paintings in the exhibition to analyse the way in which American artists discovered Impressionism in the 1880s and 1890s and the particular interpretation of this style that they developed around 1900.
The exhibition will first be shown at the Musée des Impresionnismes Giverny in the spring of 2014, then at the National Galleries of Scotland (Edinburgh) in the summer, and from November at the Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid.
This exhibition is organized by the Musée des Impressionnismes Giverny and the Terra Foundation for American Art in collaboration with the National Galleries of Scotland and the Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza.
With the generous support of the Terra Foundation for American Art.
Image: Mary Cassatt, Autumn 1880. Oil on canvas. 92,5 x 65,5 cm Musée des Beaux Arts de la Ville de Paris, Petit-Palais, París (PPP00706) © Petit Palais/ Roger Viollet
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Saturday: 10.00 - 21.00 h.
Monday: Closed
From 10th November onwards extended opening times:
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Fridays and Saturdays: 10.00 – 21.00
Last entry is one hour and a quarter before closing.
Combined ticket for American impressionism and Hubert de Givenchy* 14,00€