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| Manet/Degas |
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Through January 7, 2024
The Met Fifth Avenue |
| This exhibition examines one of the most significant artistic dialogues in modern art history: the close and sometimes tumultuous relationship between Édouard Manet and Edgar Degas. Born only two years apart, Manet (1832–1883) and Degas (1834–1917) were friends, rivals, and, at times, antagonists who worked to define modern painting in France. By examining their careers in parallel and presenting their work side by side, this exhibition investigates how their artistic objectives and approaches both overlapped and diverged. |
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| The Facade Commission: Nairy Baghramian, Scratching the Back |
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Through May 28, 2024
The Met Fifth Avenue |
| For The Met Fifth Avenue's facade niches, Nairy Baghramian created four abstract polychrome sculptures with components that seem to have washed up like flotsam and jetsam in the voids of their respective niches. The project is the artist's first public installation in New York City and is the fourth in the series of contemporary commissions for The Met's facade. |
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| Picasso: A Cubist Commission in Brooklyn |
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Through January 14, 2024
The Met Fifth Avenue |
In 1910 Pablo Picasso (1881–1973) embarked on a decorative commission for the Brooklyn residence of artist, collector, and critic Hamilton Easter Field (1873–1922), whom he had met in Paris the year before. The artist's brief called for as many as eleven panels to line the walls of Field's home library and form an enveloping aesthetic whole. The proposed room offered Picasso his first opportunity to move beyond easel painting and apply his radical Cubist style to decorative painting formats of challenging size and proportion. Working from his studio in France, the artist completed a group of figure and still life compositions, but the commission was never realized.
The exhibition is the first to present this little-known chapter of Picasso's Cubist period and provides an occasion to consider Cubism in relation to decorative painting conventions and architectural space. It brings together six extant canvas panels and related works, as well as archival material on Field, Picasso, and the site of the commission. |
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For more information on the exhibitions, including sponsorship credits, visit Manet/Degas, The Facade Commission: Nairy Baghramian, Scratching the Back, Picasso: A Cubist Commission in Brooklyn, Richard Avedon: MURALS, Jegi: Korean Ritual Objects, The Roof Garden Commission: Lauren Halsey, P.S. Art 2023: Celebrating the Creative Spirit of New York City Kids, Artists of the Holocaust: Portfolios, Exhibition Catalogs, and Monographs, New Acquisitions in Context: Selections from the Department of Drawings and Prints, Art for the Million: American Culture and Politics in the 1930s, Renaissance Masterpieces of Judaica: The Mishneh Torah and The Rothschild Mahzor, The Great Hall Commission: Jacolby Satterwhite, A Metta Prayer, Layered Narratives: The Northern Renaissance Gallery, Vertigo of Color: Matisse, Derain, and the Origins of Fauvism, and Proof: Maxime Du Camp's Photographs of the Eastern Mediterranean and North Africa.
Images: Left: Édouard Manet (French, 1832–1883). Plum Brandy, ca. 1877. Oil on canvas, 29 x 19 ¾ in. (73.6 x 50.2 cm). National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon (1971.85.1). Courtesy National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.; right: Edgar Degas (French, 1834–1917). In a Café (The Absinthe Drinker), 1875–76. Oil on canvas, 36 1/4 × 26 15/16 in. (92 × 68.5 cm). Musée d'Orsay, Paris. © Musée d'Orsay Dist. RMN-Grand Palais / Patrice Schmidt | Nairy Baghramian. Photo by Abigail Enzaldo. Courtesy of the artist, Marian Goodman Gallery, and Kurimanzutto | Pablo Picasso (Spanish, Málaga 1881-1973 Mougins, France). Nude Woman, 1910. Oil on canvas, 73 ¾ x 24 in. (187.3 x 61 cm). National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C., Alisa Mellon Bruce Fund (1972.46.1) © 2023 Estate of Pablo Picasso / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. Photo Courtesy National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C. | Richard Avedon (American, 1923–2004). Andy Warhol and members of The Factory, New York, October 30, 1969. Gelatin silver print, 8 × 10 in. (20.3 × 25.4 cm). Collection of The Richard Avedon Foundation © The Richard Avedon Foundation | Bottle, Korean, Joseon dynasty (1392–1910), first half of 19th century. Porcelain, H. 13 15/16 in. (33.8 cm), D. 8 ¼ in. (21 cm). The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Anonymous Gift, 2007 (2007.481). Jar with lid, Korean, Joseon dynasty (1392–1910), 15th–16th century. Porcelain, H. 12 1/4 in. (31.1 cm), D. of foot 5 3/4 in. (14.6 cm). The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Purchase, Michael and Kathleen Linburn Gift, 2021 (2021.125a, b) | Lauren Halsey, the eastside of south central los angeles hieroglyph prototype architecture (I) (detail), 2023, The Iris and B. Gerald Cantor Roof Garden, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York | Rothschild Mahzor (Italian, 1490). Opening of Ecclesiastes (detail). Ink, watercolor, powdered gold and silver leaf on parchment. Courtesy of The Library of The Jewish Theological Seminary, New York. | Unsigned artist. Abstract Color Composition (detail), 1943-44. Watercolor on paper. Jewish Museum in Prague. By permission of the Jewish Museum in Prague. Published in I Have Not Seen a Butterfly Around Here: Children's Drawings and Poems from Terezín, 1993, Jewish Museum in Prague, publishers. Prague, Czech Republic. Thomas J. Watson Library (N6833.T47 I1 1993). | Simon Francis Ravenet (French, 1706–1774) after François Boucher (French, 1703–1770), Dame de Constantinople, from Recueil de diverses fig.res étrangeres Inventées par F. Boucher P.tre du Roy et Gravées par F. Ravenet (Collection of Various Foreign Figures, Devised by F. Boucher, Painter of the King and Engraved [etched] by F. Ravenet), plate 5 (detail), ca. 1730–50. Etching and engraving, 10 7/16 x 6 5/16 in. (26.5 x 16 cm). The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1953 (53.600.1092(5)), detail. Right: François Boucher (French, 1703–1770), Woman of Constantinople (detail), ca. 1730–31. Red chalk, 10 1/16 × 6 1/2 in. (25.5 × 16.5 cm). The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Harry G. Sperling Fund, 2023 (2023.288). | Jacolby Satterwhite. Photo by Xavier Scott Marshall / Courtesy of the artist and Mitchell-Innes & Nash, New York | Joachim Friess, Diana and the Stag, ca. 1620. Partly gilded silver, enamel, gemstones, iron, wood. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917. Image © The Metropolitan Museum of Art | André Derain. Woman with a Shawl, Madame Matisse in a Kimono, 1905. Oil on canvas. Private collection, courtesy of Nevill Keating Pictures, London. © 2023 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / ADAGP, Paris. | Django Lewis (Grade 12), Granny's Backyard (detail), 2023. Oil on canvas. Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School of Music & Art and Performing Arts, Manhattan. Art teacher: David Driggers | Maxime Du Camp (French, 1822–1894), Pyramid of Chephren (Khafre), viewed from the southeast (detail), December 10, 1849. Salted paper print from paper negative. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Gilman Collection, Gift of The Howard Gilman Foundation, 2005 (2005.100.376.19); Du Camp, Pyramid of Chephren (Khafre), Middle Egypt (detail), 1852. Salted paper print (Blanquart-Évrard process) from paper negative. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Robert O. Dougan Collection, Gift of Warner Communications Inc., 1981 (1981.1229.6.1) |
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