Wexner Center for the Arts Announces Transfigurations: Modern Masters From the Wexner Family Collection

The Wexner Center for the Arts presents Transfigurations: Modern Masters From the Wexner Family Collection on view September 21–December 31, 2014.

Transfigurations: Modern Masters from the Wexner Family Collection features an exceptionally in-depth selection of masterworks by Pablo Picasso, Alberto Giacometti, and Jean Dubuffet. The Wexner Collection, with its concentrated focus on these three 20th-century virtuosos, is incomparable to any other private collection formed over the last 50 years. Guest curated by Robert Storr, professor and Dean of the Yale University School of Art and former senior curator of painting and sculpture at the Museum of Modern Art, the exhibition brings fresh curatorial and scholarly perspective to these artists and examines the figurative impulses that connect them.

Leslie H. Wexner began seriously collecting art in the mid-1970s, and initially focused on modern artists of the New York School, particularly Kline, Rothko, and de Kooning. With the purchase in 1986 of a significant work by Picasso, Wexner began a partnership with the art dealer Richard Gray, who has maintained a close working relationship with the Wexners over the years since. Since then, the Wexners purposefully began to look more intently at earlier modern masters, choosing primarily to collect exemplary work of Picasso, Giacometti, and Dubuffet. The Wexner Family Collection today reflects a coherence of vision that evolved through years of keen focus. A passion for quality further distinguishes the collection and provides ample testament to the persistence of figuration throughout the 20th century and into the 21st.

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