Paul Gauguin
Parau api, 1892
Quelles nouvelles? / What’s news?
Oil on canvas, 67 x 91 cm
Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden, Galerie Neue Meister, Dresden
Photograph by Jürgen Karpinski
Paul Gauguin
D’où venons-nous? Que sommes-nous? Où allons-nous?, 1897/98
Where Do We Come From? What Are We? Where Are We Going?
Oil on canvas, 139,1 x 374,6 cm
Museum of Fine Arts Boston, Tompkins Collection, Arthur Gordon Tompkins Fund
Foto: © 2015 Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Paul Gauguin exhibition at Fondation Beyeler As one of the great European cultural highlights in the year 2015, the exhibition at the Fondation Beyeler brings together over fifty masterpieces by Gauguin from leading international museums and private collections. 8 February to 28 June 2015.]]>
Source: Fondation Beyeler
This is the most dazzling exhibition of masterpieces by this exceptional, groundbreaking French artistthat has been held in Switzerland for sixty years; the last major retrospective in neighbouring countriesdates back around ten years. Over six years in the making, the show is the most elaborate exhibitionproject in the Fondation Beyeler’s history. The museum is consequently expecting a record number ofvisitors.
The exhibition features Gauguin’s multifaceted self-portraits as well as the visionary, spiritual paintingsfrom his time in Brittany, but it mainly focuses on the world-famous paintings he created in Tahiti. Inthem, the artist celebrates his ideal of an unspoilt exotic world, harmoniously combining nature andculture, mysticism and eroticism, dream and reality.
In addition to paintings, the exhibition includes a selection of Gauguin’s enigmatic sculptures thatevoke the art of the South Seas that had by then already largely vanished.
There is no art museum in the world exclusively devoted to Gauguin’s work, so the precious loans comefrom 13 countries: Switzerland, Germany, France, Spain, Belgium, Great Britain (England andScotland), Denmark, Hungary, Norway, the Czech Republic, Russia, the Unites States and Canada.
Works are being loaned by the most important Gauguin collections in the world, including prestigiousinstitutions such as the Musée d’Orsay, Paris; the Art Institute of Chicago; the Musées Royaux desBeaux Arts de Belgique, Brussels; the National Gallery of Scotland, Edinburgh; the Museum Folkwang,Essen; the Gemäldegalerie Neuer Meister der Staatlichen Kunstsammlungen Dresden; the Wallraf-Richartz-Museum, Cologne; the Tate in London; the Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid; the Museumof Modern Art in New York, and the National Gallery in Prague. In particular, the Fondation Beyeler hassucceeded in securing for the exhibition a group of Gauguin’s works from the legendary Russiancollections of the Hermitage in Saint Petersburg and the Pushkin Museum in Moscow.
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