Art of Marc Chagall in Philadelphia
THE INQUIRER
March 6, 2011
PENNSYLVANIA-- Beginning with Henri Matisse in 2008-09 and followed by Pablo Picasso last year, the Philadelphia Museum of Art has been offering focused close-ups of its exceptional holdings of early modernist art. Now this impressive sequence continues with "Paris Through the Window: Marc Chagall and His Circle," a look at the emigre artists from Eastern Europe who helped to make Paris the center of the artistic avant-garde. Chagall, who first came to the city in 1911, is the most prominent of this largely Jewish cohort, whom French critic André Warnod dubbed the School of Paris. He's responsible for more than a third of the 70 paintings, sculptures, and works on paper that make up the exhibition in the museum's Perelman building. [link]
March 6, 2011
PENNSYLVANIA-- Beginning with Henri Matisse in 2008-09 and followed by Pablo Picasso last year, the Philadelphia Museum of Art has been offering focused close-ups of its exceptional holdings of early modernist art. Now this impressive sequence continues with "Paris Through the Window: Marc Chagall and His Circle," a look at the emigre artists from Eastern Europe who helped to make Paris the center of the artistic avant-garde. Chagall, who first came to the city in 1911, is the most prominent of this largely Jewish cohort, whom French critic André Warnod dubbed the School of Paris. He's responsible for more than a third of the 70 paintings, sculptures, and works on paper that make up the exhibition in the museum's Perelman building. [link]
