For the first time in Italy 73 masterpieces from the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, USA.
Palazzo Reale in Milan will be the first stage of the exceptional and unprecedented tour of the masterpieces of world-famous collection of American Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, United States, including major French works of the nineteenth century, with beautiful paintings of Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Claude Monet, Edgar Degas, Edouard Manet, Berthe Morisot and Camille Pissarro.
The exhibition will be held from March 2 to June 19, 2011 and will have 73 works by French masters of the nineteenth century. Subsequently, the collection will be housed Clark in Francia, al Musée des Impressionnismes di Giverny, dal 13 luglio al 31 ottobre 2011, in Spagna, alla CaixaForum di Barcelona, dal 18 novembre 2011 al 12 febbraio 2012, e proseguirà nei maggiori musei di tutto il mondo.
L’americano Robert Sterling Clark era uno degli eredi del patrimonio delle macchine per cucire Singer. Con il suo gran mucchio di dollari, e in sintonia perfetta con la moglie Francine Clary, comincia ad acquistare importanti opere d’arte nel 1910, e va avanti così per decenni.
Nel 1955 nasce lo Sterling and Francine Clark Art institute a Williamstown, un edificio immacolato in stile neoclassico immerso tra le verdi colline del Berkshire, regione occidentale del Massachusetts. Oggi funziona anche as an excellent center for research and study.
boasts 8,000 pieces, of which 500 are paintings, most exalted. Selected from among these, 73 will arrive at the Palazzo Reale in Milan for a dazzling show, Impressionists. Masterpieces from the Clark collection.
The exhibition is curated by Richard Rand, Senior Curator at the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute and the exhibition, organized with the expert advice of Stephen Zuffi, is divided into ten sections focusing on key themes that testify to the stylistic innovations and techniques of the second half of the nineteenth century: Printing, Light, Nature, Sea, Town and countryside, Travel, Body, Faces, Company and Pleasures.
Sections brings together masterpieces of the greatest French artists, the evolution and variation of style and poetic realism, impressionism post-impressionism, were confronted with these issues revolutionizing the concept of painting and role of art in bourgeois society of the time.
How wonderful!
From 02/03/2011 to 19/06/2011
Royal Palace - Museum
Hours Monday: from 14.30 to 19.30, Tuesday to Sunday from 9.30 am to 19.30 pm , Thursday and Saturday open until 22.30.
Euro 9.00
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