Giovanni Boldini
Signora in Rosa (Woman in Pink)
Painted in 1916
Galleria d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, Ferrara
Portraits of the Belle Époque at CaixaForum Barcelona CaixaForum Barcelona exhibits seventy-six portraits from the closing decades of the 19th century and the early decades of the 20th, including artists such as Giovanni Boldini, Edvard Munch, John Singer Sargent and Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec.
20 July – 9 October 2011
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Source: CaixaForum Barcelona / theartwolf.com
The exhibition “Portraits of the Belle Époque” includes seventy-six works by forty artists. As the CaixaForum says in a press note, three generations of painters are represented in the selection: first, the precursors, a group of artists born in the 1830s, including Giovanni Boldini, whose “Woman in pink” ranks among the most beautiful works in the show; the intermediate generation, formed by painters born in the 1850s, such as Sargent, Sorolla and Toulouse- Lautrec; and finally those artists born in the 1870s, such as Oscar Kokoschka and Egon Schiele.
The exhibition is divided into nine sections: “Self-portraits”, “Society portraits”, “Temperament and character”, “Group portraits”, “Atmospheres and conversations”, “Toulouse-Lautrec” (including his “Gaston Bonnefoy” from the Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum), “Portraits in the landscape”, “The portrait as symbol” and “The crisis”.
Nearly thirty institutions from twelve countries have loaned works for this exhibition, including the Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum, the Galleria degli Uffizi, the Metropolitan Museum, the Tate Britain and the State Tretyakov Gallery of Moscow. “Portraits of the Belle Époque” also features works from several private collections in Europe and America.
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