Miro’s, Monets, Modiglianis from The Nahmad Collection go public at Kunsthaus Zurich

ZURICH (REUTERS).- Over the past half-century the Nahmad family’s primary relationship with art was how much money they could make by dealing in the works of Picasso, Monet and Dali. Now a new exhibition, “Miro, Monet, Matisse – The Nahmad Collection” reveals for the first time the world-class works they stashed away, almost forgotten in a warehouse. Their story began in the early 1960s, when brothers Ezra and David began buying art in Paris and transporting it back to Milan to [...]

Exhibition at Fundació Suñol of 27 Works, Dating from 1924-1998, Reflect the Visions of 18 Artists

BARCELONA.- The Fundació Suñol has put together an exhibition of 27 pieces from the Josep Suñol Collection to help expand visitors’ knowledge of 20th-century art. It comprises work by 18 artists who played a key role in the field of visual arts in recent years, marked by a shift away from previous conventions of representation. The 27 pieces – which date from 1924 to 1998 – reflect the visions of 18 artists who use different interpretations, intensities and media to [...]

United Kingdom’s Tate Modern to Show Joan Miro: The Ladder of Escape

LONDON (REUTERS).- Civil war was raging in Spain, bombs were exploding in Guernica, and Spanish artist Joan Miro, stranded in Paris, was painting “Still Life with Old Shoe,” where psychedelic colors spilled into everyday objects to create a scene of nightmare. Miro’s engagement with, and sometimes savage reaction to, the world around him underpins Tate Modern’s “Joan Miro: The Ladder of Escape,” the first major exhibition of his work in London in almost 50 years. The title of the exhibition, [...]

rand Miró Exhibition Includes First-Class Objects on Loan from All Over the World

BADEN-BADEN.- The grand summer exhibition at the Museum Frieder Burda through 14 November 2010 is dedicated to the artist Joan Miró. Under the title “Miró. The Colours of Poetry“, the museum will show around 100 works by the Catalan artist who so strongly influenced art of the 20th century. The pictures cover six decades of Miró’s work. Various famous private collectors and museums from all over the world have sent their paintings to Baden-Baden, among them the Centre Pompidou in [...]

Pablo Picasso Graphics Museum in Münster Celebrates 10th Anniversary with Miró Exhibition

MUNSTER.- It will be a time to celebrate at the Pablo Picasso Graphics Museum in Münster in 2010. Germany’s only Picasso Museum will be ten years old. To mark the event, the Museum will be presenting three huge special exhibitions, on Joan Miró, Pablo Picasso and Paul Klee. With about 800 of Pablo Picasso’s lithographs, the Münster museum has one of the largest collections of Picasso’s graphic art in the world. Since it opened in the year 2000, the museum [...]