Exhibition

Van Gogh to Kandinsky
Expressionism in Germany and France, 1900-1914
From October 11, 2014 – January 25, 2015
Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, Canada

Vincent van Gogh (1853 – 1890)
Le Restaurant de la Sirene a Asnieres, 1887
Huile sur toile
54 * 65,5 cm
Paris, musée d’Orsay, legs Joseph Reinach, 1921
Photo © RMN-Grand Palais / Art Resource, NY

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The Montreal Museum of Fine Arts (MMFA) is proud to present — in a Canadian exclusive — the exhibition Van Gogh to Kandinsky: Impressionism to Expressionism, 1900-1914, which will run from October 11, 2014 to January 25, 2015. A century after the outbreak of the First World War, this exceptional exhibition of over one hundred paintings and an equal number of drawings and prints executed by the greatest avant-garde figures of the time, sheds new light on the extraordinary artistic cross-currents presiding over the major developments in modern art that took place in Germany and France between 1900 and 1914. First on view in Switzerland at the Kunsthaus Zürich, and then at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts’ showing of the exhibition will be distinguished not only for its exclusive presentation of major works, but also for its wealth of documentation, including more than 200 photographs, stereographic images and magazines focusing on Paris in 1900, as well as chronicling World War I, providing a broad historical context for this creative era.

Wassily Kandinsky (1866 – 1944)
Arabes I. (Cimetiere) (Arabischer Friedhof),
1909
Huile sur carton
71,5 * 98 cm
Hamburger Kunsthalle
Photo bpk, Berlin / Hamburger Kunsthalle, Hamburg / Art Resource, NY

Théo van Rysselberghe (1862 – 1926)
Plage a maree basse a Ambleteuse, le soir, 1900
Huile sur toile
52,7 * 64,1 cm
Portland Art Museum, gift of Laura and Roger Meier
Photo © Portland Museum of Art