Stadel Museum discovers an important work by French academic painter Jean-Léon Gérome

FRANKFURT.- In the context of examining the Städel’s nineteenth-century holdings in view of the imminent reopening or new presentation of the museum’s collections respectively, an important painting by the French academic painter Jean-Léon Gérôme (1824–1904) has been discovered. The picture shows Saint Jerome reclining against a lion, his traditional attribute. After its comprehensive restoration, the painting will be on display for the first time as part of the Städel’s new permanent “Modern Art” (1800-1945) presentation. The work was last exhibited in London in [...]

Painting by Monet to Make a Planned Early Departure from Exhibition

MELBOURNE.- Calling all Monet fans: you need to hurry on down to the NGV’s European Masters exhibition before 9pm Wednesday 1 September! Claude Monet’s fascinating work The Luncheon is making a planned early departure from the National Gallery of Victoria’s European Masters exhibition to be a part of a Monet retrospective at the Galeries nationales du Grand Palais in Paris. Painted in 1868, The Luncheon was submitted to the Salon in Paris in 1870. However the painting was rejected as [...]

Matisse’s Most Experimental Works to be Examined at the Art Institute of Chicago

CHICAGO, IL.- The Art Institute of Chicago and The Museum of Modern Art, New York (MoMA) have co-organized an ambitious exhibition that presents, for the first time, a seminal investigation of a pivotal point in the career of Henri Matisse (1869-1954), one of the 20th century’s greatest artists. Matisse: Radical Invention, 1913-1917 will premiere at the Art Institute March 20 through June 20, 2010, and then travel to MoMA, where it will be on view from July 18 through October [...]