Modigliani, Picasso paintings grace Bund One Art Museum
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Picasso, Modigliani & Modern Art: Masterpieces from LaM Museum” is on show at the Bund One Art Museum.
This is the first collaboration between the Shanghai museum and the LaM (Lille Métropole Museum of Modern, Contemporary and Outsider Art) in Villeneuve-d’Ascq, France.
Gathering the most influential artists of the 20th century, the exhibition features 61 works by 18 pioneering artists including Amedeo Modigliani, Pablo Picasso, Fernand Léger, Georges Braque, Joan Miró and André Derain.
Including nine Modigliani works and five Picasso pieces, this is the biggest presentation of Modigliani’s art in China so far.
Among the nine is the nude female portrait “Seated Nude with a Shirt,” a painting considered representative of Modigliani’s style. There’s also the extremely rare family portrait “Mother,” in which the protagonists are Modigliani’s last lover, Jeanne Hébuterne, and their daughter, Jeanne Modigliani.
Italian-born Amedeo Modigliani moved to Paris in 1906. He developed a very personal style focused on the human figure — almost all his paintings are portraits and nudes. He wished to achieve the representation of an ideal figure, condensing the formal characteristics of diverse cultures: classical and Egyptian antiquity, Italian Renaissance, Khmer statuary, African art and modern painting.
Picasso’s “Woman with a Hat” and other masterpieces are also on display.
The exhibition divides the most influential schools in the first half of the 20th century into four major sections: “Cubism,” “Amedeo Modigliani,” “Painting in Dreams” and “Color and Expression.”
One of the most important art museums in Europe, the LaM museum was the first French museum to integrate modern, contemporary and out-of-bounds art. The museum’s modern art collection comes from Roger Dutilleul (1873-1956) and his nephew Jean Masurel (1908-1991), who, through their keen appreciation of art, assembled an extraordinary collection of masterpieces. These works represent both the collector’s personal taste and the great artistic movements of the French modern period.
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