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Frank Penfold: In the Sunshine, Brittany

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Gallery II December Catalogue: paintings from E185 to E1,200

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TURNER AND THE IMPRESSIONISTS

Brescia, Museo di Santa Giulia

   

Alfred Sisley 1839 - 1899: Environs de Louveciennes: sold

The exhibition 'Turner and the Impressionists' will outline the birth of Impressionist landscape painting, spanning the mid to late 19th century and presenting this art historical phenomenon through a wider historical point of view. The first of its kind to be presented in Italy, the exhibition, divided into ten comprehensive sections, will comprise of approximately of 250 paintings from international important collections. We are delighted to be in a position to contribute with these two fine paintings by Alfred Sisley and Camille Pissarro.

    

Camille Pissarro 1830-1903: Brouillard a l'Hermitage, Pontoise SOLD

The exhibition will begin with important and seminal examples of work by Constable and Turner, demonstrating the dramatic new way of interpreting landscape painting which had emerged outside of Europe. In showing these paintings at the inception of the exhibition, the viewer is reminded of their historical importance in the evolution of painting, particularly Constable with his influence on the artists of the Barbizon School and Turner for his influence on Monet. This section will introduce a radical new interpretation of nature that emerged in the 18th century: namely, with Constable, realism that spread new light on nature and, concurrently, with Turner, the dissolution of landscapes into fields of light and colour. Specifically, it was this dissolution which, in turn, made an indelible impression on Monet and influenced his entire oeuvre.

Impressionism, and of course landscape, will then take the stage, in order to demonstrate what the latter represented for that extraordinary group of artists. Indeed, in the 1860’s, the real innovation in landscape painting was constituted by the emergence of a new and bright view of nature. This was the very same nature that, only a few years earlier, was represented just as a mere scenographic backdrop, populated by Greek and Roman ruins or inhabited by mythological and biblical characters. The second section, featuring 20 works, will show seminal works of this school, in order to demonstrate the incredible distance in skill, interpretation and temperament from which the new artists, such as Monet, had commenced.

With this new interpretation of landscape, painting suddenly becomes something incredibly different. The Impressionists transformed everyday life into an epic celebration in their work, one of the greatest revolutions in the history of painting. The artists understood that poetry resided in their own gardens, in the colourful blooming of plant life, in the moonlight on the sea, in a gust of wind bending a tree more than in the description of a temple or a nymph beside a source. Nature is now perused, loved and almost caressed by the eye which transfers onto the canvas both light and passion. Finally, the central part of the tale is reached via the important third section, which is dedicated to the painters of the Barbizon School, including Corot, Courbet, Rousseau, Daubigny, Diaz and Chintreuil. These artists represented a link between French academic landscape painting and the Impressionists, foreshadowing certain typical manners of the latter a decade before the first Impressionist exhibition opened in 1874 at Nadar’s studio. The exhibition will then describe, through three decades, the landscape from different points of view: beginning with the early experiments with light and colour carried out in the Fontainebleau forest by Monet, Pissarro, Renoir and Sisley, among others, collectively known as the "plein air" school. An entire section will be dedicated to Le Gray and Cuvelier, the two masters of French landscape photography between 1850 and 1875, in order to show the strong connection between both Barbizon and impressionist artists with the early examples of photography.

Other sections will subsequently lead the visitor to discover the views of Paris painted by many of the Impressionists and the French countryside, a common subject among many of these artists’ greatest masterpieces. Two sections will also be dedicated to the theme of water. The first one is of fundamental importance and will feature the various French rivers, from the Seine to the Oise, while the second one is comprised of seascapes, from Manet’s world-famous paintings to the numerous works produced by Monet during his long stays in Normandy and the French Riviera.

In the section dedicated to cities, Monet will also play a key role, with the images of Rouen cathedral, London and Venice. However, the same section will also include the splendid views of London painted by Pissarro, Renoir’s paintings of Venice and Degas’ views of Rome and Naples. This chapter of the exhibition will also include the travels of the Impressionists: from Monet’s Dutch and Provençal scenes, to Renoir's Provençal landscapes, the sublime production of Cézanne, and of course Gauguin’s views of Brittany and Tahiti. The exhibition shall end with a section entitled "Gardens", thus marking the gradual passage of a rather descriptive nature that slowly unfolds into the representation of the garden par excellence, Monet’s garden in Giverny. The colour within the paintings dissolves and marks the remote union between the later works of Turner and those of Monet. This section leads landscape into the adventure of the twentieth century.

Curator: Marco Goldin

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