A.G. Leventis Foundation - The Paris Collection 17th- to 20th- Century European Art - Hardcover

Hatzaki, Myrto (ed.)

9789963732012: A.G. Leventis Foundation - The Paris Collection 17th- to 20th- Century European Art

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 9963732011 ISBN 13: 9789963732012

Publisher: A. G. Leventis Foundation, 2013

Anastasios G. Leventis gathered what is today the Foundation's Collection of European Art, known as 'the Paris Collection', in the 1950s, 1960s and early 1970s. In his Paris home, he brought together works from a broad spectrum of the history of art which reflect his personal fascination with different artistic schools and styles, from the Old Masters and academic art to Impressionism and the early days of Modernism, amidst period furniture and a wealth of objects from the decorative arts. The Collection's outstanding paintings, watercolours, prints and drawings date from the 17th century to the 20th and offer a glimpse of the high points of Western painting, including religious art of the Counter-Reformation, scrupulously painted Dutch still lifes, light-spirited Rococo pastorals, 18th-century Venetian views, works by the precursors and the great masters of the Impressionist movement, and boldly coloured Pointillist and Fauve canvases. A focus on Old Master painting is illustrated through works by leading exponents of the Spanish, French, Italian and British Schools, represented respectively by artists of the calibre of El Greco, Murillo, Arellano, Boucher, Fragonard, Oudry, Canaletto, Guardi and Gainsborough. These are followed by masterworks of Impressionist and Post-Impressionist art, introduced through the work of forerunners such as Corot and Boudin and exemplified through the bold brushwork of Monet, Renoir, Sisley, Pissarro, Signac, Dufy, Bonnard and Chagall. Largely unseen and unpublished until 2012 - when over 70 selected works were presented in a joint exhibition of the Foundation's three Collections at the National Gallery in Athens - the Collection has been extensively researched and studied, with the contribution of leading museum curators and academics from around the world. Through what has been a fascinating journey of (re)discovery, its significant works thus emerge as major additions to existing scholarship.

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