The Montreal Museum of Fine Arts (MMFA) presents A History of Impressionism. Great French Paintings from the Clark in an exhibition on view October 12, 2012 to January 20, 2013.
Claude Monet (1840-1926), Geese in the Brook, 1874, Oil on canvas, 73.7 x 60 cm. © Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, Massachusetts, USA.
The Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute holds one of the greatest collections of French Impressionism in North America. Seventyfour extraordinary paintings by Bonnard, Corot, Degas, Gauguin, Manet, Millet, Monet, Morisot, Pissarro, Sisley, Toulouse-Lautrec and other French masters, including an outstanding selection of twenty-one paintings by Renoir, and Degas’s famous sculpture Little Dancer Aged Fourteen will provide a stunning history of Impressionism from its beginnings until the dawn of Postimpressionism. The presentation of works by Bouguereau, Gérôme and Stevens, among others, will give visitors an opportunity to understand the extent to which Impressionism constituted a revolt against academicism.
Organized by the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, Massachusetts, USA. The Canadian presentation is produced in collaboration with the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts. – www.mmfa.qc.ca
