A special exhibition of French masterpieces from the New York-based Metropolitan Museum of Art will take place from June 14 to Oct. 12 at the National Palace Museum in Taipei City.
According to the NPM, the exhibition is a collaboration to display Impressionism and Early Modernism paintings from the Robert Lehman Collection of more than 2,700 artworks at the New York museum. This will mark the first time that The Met has exhibited any items from its collection in Taiwan.
The exhibition will comprise 81 paintings and sketches by 38 contemporary Western artists. These include Renoir’s 1892 “Two Young Girls at the Piano;” Cot’s 1873 “Springtime;” Gauguin’s 1892 “Tahitian Women Bathing;” and van Gogh’s 1888 “The Flowering Orchard.” Other artists’ work includes pieces by Cézanne, Matisse, Pissarro, Seurat and Valadon.
The NPM said its collaboration with The Met began in 1961 with a special exhibition of NPM pieces in the Big Apple. The “Splendors of Imperial China,” also organized by the NPM, at The Met and three other museums in Chicago, San Francisco and Washington D.C in 1996 was also a resounding success. The upcoming exhibition, the largest in recent years, is part of the NPM’s centennial celebrations, it added. (SFC-E)
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