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Venues ING Cultural Centre, Brussels, February 19, 2014, to May 18, 2014, under the title TO THE POINT Indianapolis Museum of Art, June 15 through September 7, 2014 The first exhibition devoted solely to portraits of the Neo-Impressionist movement will open at the Indianapolis Museum of Art on June 14, 2014, the only U.S. venue for the exhibition. Face to Face: The Neo-Impressionist Portrait, 1886-1904 will feature more than 30 paintings and 20 works on paper by artists including Paul Signac, Henri- Edmond Cross, Maximilien Luce and Vincent van Gogh. Face to Face will be on view June 15 through September 7, 2014. Rooted in recent discoveries in optics and perception, Neo-Impressionism was developed in late 19th-century Paris by French painter Georges Seurat. While his use of brilliant color and pointillist brushwork is largely associated with landscapes, seascapes and scenes of modern life, the approach also produced arresting portraits of unusual beauty and perception. Face to Face r...

Degas, Renoir, and Poetic Pastels at the Cincinnati Art Museum, October 26, 2013—January 19, 2014, gave viewers the opportunity to contemplate a special conversation with Renoir’s thoughtful and glamorous portrait of “Jeanne Samary” and to admire the petals on one of the flowers in Odilon Redon’s simple and joyful “Blue Vase with Flowers”. The selection of works from the Cincinnati Art Museum’s permanent collection highlighted the achievements of the French artists who worked with pastels in the second half of the nineteenth century. Rarely on display because of their sensitivity to light, works in the exhibition include five masterpieces by Edgar Degas featuring his preferred subject of the ballet dance. Also on display was Rosa Bonheur’s Sheepfold by Moonlight in the Pyrenees, measuring four-and-a-half by six feet. The exhibition placed the works by these renowned artists in their historical context while also addressing issues of conservation and materials. Alfred Sisley, "A...

Venues Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt October 18, 2013, to January 26, 2014 (Click link for many more images and more info.) Museum of Fine Arts Ghent 21 February to 26 May 2014 Théodore Géricault, The Raft of the Medusa, the Argus View), 1818-19. Brown ink on paper, 21 x 26.8 cm Lille, Palais des Beaux-Arts© RMN – Grand Palais | Philippe Bernard, Paris . In 1908, the Friends of the Museum of Fine Arts in Ghent acquired a painting by Théodore Géricault (1791-1824) for a bargain price at a Parisian auction. Entitled The Mad Murderer, the local press speculated at the time as to who would be fool enough to hang such a picture in his living room! The painting – which in fact depicts a kleptomaniac – forms part of a series of portraits that Géricault painted of mentally ill patients in the Salpêtrière hospital in Paris. These include, amongst others, Portrait of a Woman Suffering from Obsessive Envy (Musée des Beaux-Arts, Lyon) and Portrait of a Kidnapper (Museum of Fine Arts, Springfield, M...

Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art State University of New York at New Paltz, New Paltz, NY February 5 – July 13, 2014 Eugene Speicher, Girl in a Coral Necklace, c. 1935, oil on canvas, 24 x 20 in., Private collection New York painter Eugene Speicher (1883-1962) was one of the foremost American realists of his generation, closely associated with George Bellows, Robert Henri, Leon Kroll, and Rockwell Kent. Born in Buffalo, NY, Speicher first garnered national recognition in the 1910s for his incisive portraits of actors, artists, and friends, which were collected by many prominent American museums. Splitting his professional time between New York City and Woodstock, NY, Speicher expanded his repertoire to include still life, nudes, and landscape. Along His Own Lines will be the first Speicher museum survey since 1963. The exhibition and accompanying catalogue will explore Speicher's role in the Woodstock art colony and the New York art world and reevaluate his place in the canon of early ...

Mauritshuis Royal Picture Gallery, The Hague 5 February through 10 May 2015 Over 30 masterpieces from the celebrated Frick Collection were seen outside New York for the first time as part of a special exhibition at the Mauritshuis Royal Picture Gallery in The Hague in 2015. A Country House in New York: Highlights from The Frick Collection was the first major exhibition to be displayed in the new wing of the Mauritshuis following the opening exhibition of the museum in 2014. The exhibition gave visitors to the Mauritshuis a fascinating insight into the history of The Frick Collection and its founder, wealthy American steel magnate Henry Clay Frick (1849—1919). The works selected for the exhibition are masterpieces from the 13th to 19th centuries, which include not only paintings, but also drawings, sculpture and decorative arts, reflecting the outstanding quality and diversity of The Frick Collection. They perfectly complemented the Mauritshuis’s own collection which focuses on Dutch a...

Minneapolis Institute of Arts November 19, 2013-March 1, 2014 Max Beckmann (German, 1884 – 1950), Blind Man's Buff, 1945, oil on canvas, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Donald Winston, 55.27a-c. ©Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn. Of Max Beckmann’s nine triptychs, Blind Man’s Buff is the largest and arguably the most important. The work was painted during Beckmann’s exile in Amsterdam between September 1944 and October 1945, under difficult wartime circumstances. In his journal , Beckmann refers to air raids and lack of food, coal, and electricity; in fact, much of the triptych was painted by candlelight More Max Beckmann: Max Beckmann Beckmann & America , Max Beckmann, Exile in Amsterdam, 1937-1947 Pinakothek der Moderne Munich September 13, 2007-January 6, 2008 Max Beckmann (1884-1950) is widely regarded as one of the most important artists of the twentieth century. In his use of colour, spatial composition and levels of symbolism Beckmann exerted a major i...

Venues Santa Barbara Museum of Art October 27,2013 through January 26, 2014 Birmingham Museum of Art February 22, 2014 through May 18, 2014 Delacroix and the Matter of Finish , organized by Eik Kahng, assistant director and chief curator at the Santa Barbara Museum of Art, features the dramatic work of the leader of the French Romantic Movement, who is often heralded as the “father of impressionism.” Eugène Delacroix, The Fanatics of Tangier, 1857. Oil on canvas, 18 _ x 22 1/16 in. Toronto, Art Gallery of Ontario (62.5). Eugène Delacroix, Collision of Arab Horsemen (Collision of Moorish Horsemen), 1843-44. Oil on canvas, 32 x 39 in. Walters Art Museum, Baltimore, Bequest of Henry Walters, 1931 (37.6). Delacroix, Christ on the sea of Galilee Delacroix, Nereid, Copy after Rubens Comprised of 25 paintings and 20 works on paper, the exhibition will highlight Delacroix’s unparalleled coloristic surface effects, his famously vigorous brushwork, his troubled collaboration with his studio ass...