Friday, January 7, 2011

Spring Preview: Chagall Will Star At Philly Art Museum

"Paris through the Window: Marc Chagall and his Circle" at the Philadelphia Museum of Art will be one of the major events of the art world this spring and summer. The exhibition will open at the Philadelphia Museum of Art on March 1 and continue through  July 10, 2011.
As a center of cosmopolitan culture and a symbol of modernity, Paris held a magnetic attraction for artists from Eastern Europe during the early decades of the 20th century.
Most painters and sculptors settled around Montparnasse, which was sprinkled with cafes, and art galleries. It was here that Alexander Archipenko, Marc Chagall, Moïse Kisling, Jacques Lipchitz, Louis Marcoussis, Amedeo Modigliani, Chana Orloff, Jules Pascin, Margit Pogany, Chaim Soutine, and Ossip Zadkine established studios and discovered each other’s work.
This exhibition will include around 40 paintings and sculptures by these émigrés, whose work was both imbued with the spirit of modernism and informed by their own cultural heritage. The exhibition will focus in particular on the paintings Chagall made between 1910 and 1920, including Half Past Three (The Poet ), of 1911, one of the treasures of the Philadelphia Museum of Art.
We'll be telling you more about this and other upcoming major museum attractions as we move further into 2011.

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