A História do Impressionismo: Grandes Pinturas Francesas do Clark

Claude Monet (Paris, 1840-Giverny, 1926), Geese in the Brook, 1874, Oil on canvas, 73.7 x 60 cm, Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, Massachusetts, 1955.529, [© Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, Massachusetts, USA.

Montreal Museum of Fine Arts

13 de outubro de 2012, 20 de janeiro de 2013

Jean-Léon Gérôme, The Snake Charmer, c. 1879, © The Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, Massachusetts, USA, 1955.51.

Montreal Museum of Fine Arts (MMFA) hospeda A História do Impressionismo: grandes pinturas francesas do Clark. Nathalie Bondil, diretora e curadora-chefe do MMFA e curadora da exposição em Montreal, está encantada que "Pela primeira e única vez, uma das melhores coleções de obras impressionistas da América do Norte será exibida exclusivoamente no Museu Canadense. Montreal é o local único local no Canadá para esta turnê histórica, que viaja da Europa para a Ásia durante o trabalho de expansão do Sterling e Francine Clark Art Institute de Williamstown, Massachusetts.

Edgar Degas, Dancers in the Classroom, c. 1880, © The Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, Massachusetts, USA.

Montreal Museum of Fine Arts (MMFA) hosts A History of Impressionism: Great French Paintings from the Clark. Nathalie Bondil, Director and Chief Curator of the MMFA and curator of this exhibition in Montreal, is delighted that “For the first and only time, one of the finest collections of Impressionist works in North America will be displayed in a Canadian exclusive at the Museum. Montreal is the sole Canadian venue for this historic tour, which travels from Europe to Asia during expansion work at Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute in Williamstown, Massachusetts. 

Alfred Sisley, The Loing and the Mills of Moret – Snow Effect, 1891, © The Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, Massachusetts, USA, 1955.545.

Escolhidas pela sua qualidade excepcional, 73 pinturas de Bonnard, Corot, Degas, Gauguin, Manet, Millet, Monet, Morisot, Pissarro, Sisley e Toulouse-Lautrec, incluindo uma seleção de 21 telas excepcionais de  Renoir e Degas a escultura pequena dançarina da idade quatorze anos (vista exclusivamente em Montreal) será mostrada no MMFA. A inclusão de trabalhos acadêmicos de Bouguereau, Gérôme e Stevens, entre outros, permitirá aos visitantes ver como o ​​novo 'modernismo' desafiou pintura oficial. "

Claude Monet, Les Falaises à Étretat, 1885, © The Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, Massachusetts, USA.

Chosen for their exceptional quality, 73 paintings by Bonnard, Corot, Degas, Gauguin, Manet, Millet, Monet, Morisot, Pissarro, Sisley and Toulouse-Lautrec, including a selection of 21 outstanding canvases by Renoir, and the Degas sculpture Little Dancer Aged Fourteen (on view exclusively in Montreal) will be shown at the MMFA. The inclusion of academic works by Bouguereau, Gérôme and Stevens, among others, will enable visitors to see how the new ‘modernism’ challenged official painting.”

Claude Monet, Tulip Fields at Sassenheim, near Leiden, 1886, © The Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, Massachusetts, USA, 1955.615.

Nathalie Bondil explica, "A seleção mostra um gosto refinado e um olhar perspicaz sobre o Impressionismo: seus precursores com a Escola de Barbizon, o nascimento do movimento e da reivindicação histórica da década de 1870 e 1880 são particularmente bem ilustradas. Além do prestígio das assinaturas, essas telas são todas de alta qualidade elas mesmas. "

Camille Pissarro, The River Oise near Pontoise, 1873, © The Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, Massachusetts, USA, 1955.554.

Nathalie Bondil explained, “The selection on display shows a refined taste and a discerning eye for Impressionism: its forerunners with the Barbizon School, the birth of the movement and the historic vindication of the 1870s and 1880s are particularly well illustrated. Beyond the prestige of the signatures, these canvases are all of high quality in and of themselves.”

Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, Waiting, c. 1888, © The Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, Massachusetts, USA, 1955.564.

Os visitantes poderão admirar paisagens de Monet, de Os penhascos em Étretat aos campos de tulipas holandesas e Primavera em Giverny, os bancos pastorais do Sena pintados por Caillebotte e Sisley e as paisagens de Pissarro, como o Louvre e a Pont Neuf. Obras de Degas incluem o famoso antes da corrida com os cavalos e os jóqueis em sedas brilhantemente  coloridas.

Claude Monet, Louise Harduin, 1831, © The Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, Massachusetts, USA, 1959.539.

Visitors will be able to admire Monet’s landscapes, from The Cliffs at Étretat to the Dutch tulip fields and Spring in Giverny, the pastoral banks of the Seine painted by Caillebotte and Sisley and the cityscapes of Pissarro, such as The Louvre from the Pont Neuf. Works by Degas include the famous Before the Race with the horses and the jockeys in brightly coloured silks. 

Mary Cassatt, Offering the Panal to the Bullfighter, 1873, © The Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, Massachusetts, USA, 1955.1.

Os cenários exóticos de Gérôme  contrastam com os temas elegantes de Stevens e Boldini. Vinte e um Renoirs selecionado dos 32 atualmente na coleção Clark ilustram vividamente o talento ardente do mestre do impressionismo: a celebração da beleza feminina (a menina com um ventilador, uma caixa no Teatro Banhista, Blonde ...), suas paisagens (Pôr do sol, Veneza, o Palácio Ducal, a Baía de Nápoles, à noite), naturezas-mortas (maçãs em um prato, peônias ...), e retratos (Auto-retrato, Marie-Thérèse de costura Durand-Ruel ...).

Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Blonde Bather, 1881, © The Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, Massachusetts, USA, 1955.609.

The exotic settings of Gérôme contrast with the elegant subjects of Stevens and Boldini. Twenty-one Renoirs selected from the 32 Renoirs currently in the Clark collection vividly illustrate the blazing talent of the master of Impressionism: his celebration of female beauty (Girl with a Fan, A Box at the Theatre, Blonde Bather …), his landscapes (Sunset, Venice, the Doge’s Palace, Bay of Naples, Evening), still lifes (Apples in a Dish, Peonies …), and portraits (Self-portrait, Marie-Thérèse Durand-Ruel Sewing …).

Pierre-Auguste Renoir (Limoges, 1841-Cagnes-sur-Mer, 1919), Marie-Thérèse Durand-Ruel Sewing, 1882, Oil on canvas, 64.9 x 54 cm, Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, Massachusetts, 1955.613, © Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, Massachusetts, USA, (Photo by Michael Agee).

Esta coleção extraordinária, comparável em qualidade e tamanho com a de Alfred C. Barnes, foi o trabalho de Robert Sterling Clark (1877-1956), herdeiro da fortuna da máquina de costura Singer, que, por mais de meio século, discretamente construíu uma das melhores coleções de arte dos Estados Unidos.

Berthe Morisot (Bourges, 1841-Paris, 1895), The Bath, 1885-86, Oil on canvas, 92.1 x 73.3 cm, Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, Massachusetts, 1955.926, © Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, Massachusetts, USA, (Photo by Michael Agee).

This extraordinary collection, comparable in quality and size to that of Alfred C. Barnes, was the work of Robert Sterling Clark (1877-1956), heir to the Singer sewing machine fortune, who, for over half a century, quietly built up one of the finest art collections in the United States. 

Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Sleeping Girl, 1880, © The Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, Massachusetts, USA, 1955.598.

Casado com uma atriz francesa, Clark viveu por muitos anos em Paris, com o entusiasmo de colecionar arte. Um amante da arte discriminatório e negociador hábil, como independente em seu estilo de vida como em seus gostos, este homem pensativo e reticente escolheu as obras de arte se, a consulta só com a sua mulher experiente, Francine. Sua coleção inclui pinturas europeias e americanas, estampas antigo mestre e desenhos, esculturas, prata e cerâmica.

Pierre-Auguste Renoir (Limoges, 1841-Cagnes-sur-Mer, 1919), A Box at the Theater (At the Concert), 1880, Oil on canvas, 99.4 x 80.7 cm, Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, Massachusetts, 1955.594, © Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, Massachusetts, USA, (Photo by Michael Agee).

Married to a French actress, Clark lived for many years in Paris, enthusiastically collecting art. A discriminating art lover and skilled negotiator, as independent in his lifestyle as in his tastes, this thoughtful and reticent man chose the artworks himself, consulting only with his knowledgeable wife, Francine. His collection included European and American paintings, Old Master prints and drawings, sculpture, silver and ceramics.

Paul Gauguin (Paris, 1848-Atuona, Marquesas Islands, 1903), Young Christian Girl, 1894, Oil on canvas, 65.3 x 46.7 cm, Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, Massachusetts, Acquired in honor of Harding F. Bancroft (Institute Trustee, 1970-87; President, 1977-87) in 1986, 1986.22 , © Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, Massachusetts, USA, (Photo by Michael Agee).

Em 1955, os Clarks abriram o instituto que leva seu nome, em Williamstown, Massachusetts, no coração de Nova Inglaterra. Agora é famoso em todo o mundo pela qualidade de sua coleção de arte, que se estende desde os antigos mestres europeus do século 19, a arte, artes decorativas e participações notáveis ​​de obras sobre papel, e uma das bibliotecas o maior da América de história da arte.

Edgar Degas, (Paris 1834-Paris 1917), Petite danseuse de quatorze ans, 1879-1881,Bronze, tutu en tulle, ruban de satin, socle en bois, 99 cm, Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, Massachusetts, 1955.45, © Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, Massachusetts, USA, (Photo by Michael Agee).

In 1955, the Clarks opened the institute that bears their names in Williamstown, Massachusetts, in the heart of New England. It is now famous around the world for the outstanding quality of its art collection, which spans from European Old Masters to 19th-century art, decorative arts and remarkable holdings of works on paper, and one of America’s largest art history libraries.

James Tissot, Chrysanthemums, c. 1874-76, © The Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, Massachusetts, USA, 1994.2.

Édouard Manet, Moss Roses in a Vase, 1882, © The Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, Massachusetts, USA, 1955.556.

Théodore Rousseau, Farm in the Landes, 1844-67, © The Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, Massachusetts, USA, 2009.8.

Camille Pissarro, The Louvre from the Pont Neuf, 1902, © The Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, Massachusetts, USA.