The work of great artists of European Impressionism will engage in an artistic dialogue with that of representatives of muralism, one of the fundamental currents of our country in the 20th century, in the exhibition Cutting-edge dialogues: The Pearlman collection at the Munal, which will be inaugurated on September 12 in that area of the Historic Center.
The paintings that are coming to Mexico belong to the collection of Henry and Rose Pearlman, two famous New York art collectors who, after World War II, traveled around Europe for more than three decades, during which they acquired a large part of their collection, which is now traveling with the help of Princeton University, based in New Jersey.
The Pearlmans managed to acquire more than thirty works by Paul Cézanne and more than forty by Vincent van Gogh, Amedeo Modigliani, Edgar Degas, Chaim Soutine, Camille Pissarro, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Paul Gauguin, Alfred Sisley, Édouard Manet and Henet Toulouse-Lautrec, among others.
Henry Pearlman spent much of his life organizing his collection, which was housed at the Brooklyn Museum. It was in 1976 that the collection arrived at the Princeton University Art Museum, in 1936, with a series of loans, and has since traveled to different museums.
The Henry and Rose Pearlman Foundation was later established in 1955 as a non-profit organization, which is the current owner of the collection. The first exhibition was organized in 1958, with a loan of 27 pieces to a museum in Baltimore, and since then the pieces have been exhibited at the Fogg Museum, the Fine Arts Museum in San Francisco, the National Gallery of Art in the United States and the Detroit Institute of Arts, among others.
The aim of this new exhibition is for these European pieces to engage in a dialogue with those of Diego Rivera, José Clemente Orozco, Joaquín Clausell, Gerardo Murillo Dr. Atl, Germán Gedovius, Manuel Rodríguez Lozano, Roberto Montenegro and Félix Parra.
This exhibition, which will be located on the first floor of the Munal, revives the way in which international exhibitions between centuries were held, mostly held in Paris, to bring visitors closer to the interests of the beautiful era which from the plastic arts was a watershed in techniques such as landscape, nude, portrait, cabaret and everyday life.
In addition, there will be a rich academic program that brings together important specialists and researchers of modern art in Europe and Mexico, as well as a course that will delve into the life and production of these artists.
Among the works from the American collection that will be exhibited at the Munal are: Tarascon Stagecoach, the Van Gogh; Cezanne, Mount Sainte-Victoire (Cezanne, Mount of Santa-Victoria), by Cezanne; Jean Cocteau, of Modigliani; Young Woman in a Round Hat, by Manet; After the Bath, Woman Drying Herself, by Degas; Mesalina, by Henri Toulouse-Lautrec; River View (River View), by Sisley; Still Life: Apples and Pears in a Round Basket, by Camille Pissarro, and Nude in a Landscape, by Renoir.
The inauguration of Cutting-edge dialogues: The Pearlman collection It will be on September 12 at Munal (Tacuba 8, Historic Center).