Overview
From the Brooklyn Museum’s renowned European art collection, Monet to Matisse: French Moderns showcases approximately 60 works of art considered to be modernist masterpieces. Focusing on France as the artistic center of international modernism from the mid-nineteenth to mid-twentieth centuries, the paintings, drawings, and sculpture on display range widely in scale, subject matter, and style. Impressionism, symbolism, fauvism, cubism, and surrealism are all explored in the work of Paul Cézanne, Marc Chagall, Edgar Degas, Henri Matisse, Claude Monet, Pierre-Auguste Renoir and many others.
Acknowledgments
Lead
- Flowerree Foundation
Sponsor
- European and American Art Council of the Portland Art Museum
Additional support for the exhibition is provided by the Laura S. and Roger S. Meier Endowment for European Art, Janet and Richard Geary Curator of European Art Endowment Fund, William G. Gilmore Foundation, McGraw Family Foundation, James F. and Marion L. Miller Foundation, and Exhibition Series Sponsors.