Thannhauser Collection : French Modernism at the Guggenheim / edited by Megan Fontanella ; with the assistance of Julie Barten ; contributions by Julie Barten [and fourteen others].
Analytical techniques / Frederica Pozzi. Georges Braque -- Paul Cézanne -- The power to astonish in Paul Cézanne's Still Life: Flask, Glass, and Jug / Sasha Kalter-Wasserman -- Edgar Degas -- Performing repetition : Edgar Degas's Dancers in Green and Yellow / Samantha Small -- Ida Fischer -- Paul Gauguin -- Paul Klee -- Aristide Maillol -- Édouard Manet -- Revealing Édouard Manet's Woman in Striped Dress / Vivien Green and Gillian McMillan -- Henri Matisse -- Claude Monet -- Jules Pascin -- Pablo Picasso -- Night light : Pablo Picasso's Le Moulin de la Galette / Jeffrey Weiss -- Pablo Picasso's woman ironing and the portrait hidden beneath / Julie Barten, with John K. Delaney -- Innuendo or metaphor : Pablo Picasso's Bird on a Tree / Susan Davidson -- Camille Pissarro -- A time and a place : Camille Pissarro's The Hermitage at Pontaise / Vivien Greene -- Pierre-Auguste Renoir -- Metaphor made modern : Pierre-Auguste Renoir's Woman with Parakeet / Lidia Ferrara -- Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec -- Waiting in color : Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec's in the salon / Natalia Lauricella -- Vincent van Gogh -- Amending the record : Vincent van Gogh's Roadway with Underpass and Landscape with Snow / Megan Fontanella and Lena Stringari -- A singular line : Vincent van Gogh's drawings in Arles / Jeffrey Warda -- Édouard Vuillard -- A brief history of the Thannhauser collection / Megan Fontanella and Samantha Small -- Analytical techniques / Frederica Pozzi.
Summary:
When Justin K. Thannhauser (1892-1976) brought his collection of modern art to the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in 1965, it was his crowning achievement after more than a half-century as one of Europe's most influential and distinguished collectors and dealers. The collection's formal bequeathal to the Guggenheim in 1978 represents a watershed moment for the museum. Today its Thannhauser Collection constitutes the core of the Guggenheim's impressionist, postimpressionist, and School of Paris holdings, including 32 works by Pablo Picasso. This volume presents the astonishing collection in full, offering a concentrated survey of works by such modern masters as Braque, Cézanne, Degas, Gauguin, Manet, Picasso, Pissarro and Van Gogh, among others. Throughout, artworks are given rich context and detail with historical installation views and high-tech conservation images. Short essays on collection highlights by current and former Guggenheim curators and conservators illuminate the artists' stylistic innovations as they sought to liberate art from academic genres and techniques. The book also features extensive technical analyses, offering rare insight into the artists' materials and processes based on the latest advances in conservation technology. A lead essay by Megan Fontanella recounts the genesis of Thannhauser's collection and its eventual transfer to the Guggenheim Museum. Tracing his ambitious career as gallerist and collector in Europe during the interwar years and into the calamity of World War II, she explores how Thannhauser's lifelong support for experimental art and eye for original talent helped define the modernist vanguard of 20th-century art.
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