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Long-term deposit to the Musée d'art et d'histoire, Geneva

Long-term loan to the Fondation Gandur pour l'Art and of the Jean-Louis Pévost Foundation.

In June 2010, the Fondation Gandur pour l'Art and the Jean-Louis Prévost Foundation acquired the artwork Jeune femme à la fontaine by Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot, and loaned it to the Musée d'art et d'histoire in Geneva for public and permanent exhibition.

Musée Rath, Genève (CH) 14 june 2019 - 27 october 2019

Silences

Curator : Lada Umstätter

The major summer exhibition at the Musée Rath is devoted this year to a unique and original subject: the notion of silence in art. How can the expression "mute poetry", used to describe painting since Antiquity, be validated? This exhibition, which brings together numerous multidisciplinary loans from public institutions and private collectors, lifts the veil on the various forms of silence expressed by art, from the late 15th century to the present day.

The visual arts are inherently silent, as the expression "mute poetry" reminds us, employed since Antiquity to refer to painting. But does that necessarily imply that all works of art are silent? There are paintings that speak volumes, that scream at us, even, and there are others that remain quiet. Some invite the interiority of prayer, while others open the door to contemplation of the infinite. Some are impenetrable or fill us with fear, while others, more enigmatic and secretive, appear to give form to the inexpressible.

Mixing genres, motifs and eras, this exhibition focuses on silence not only in the sense of the absence of noise, sound or speech, but also as a state, a quality of presence in the world, a condensed form of which emanates from certain works of art. Grounded in the viewer's subjectivity and covering the wide range of experiences of silence - soothing or frightening, solitary or shared, mundane or exceptional, intimate, metaphysical or mystical - this exhibition looks at the way in which artists convey silence, and in doing so, gives us the opportunity to experience it.

MUSÉE MARMOTTAN MONET, PARIS (FR) 8 FEBRUARY 2018 - 22 JULY 2018

Le peintre et ses modèles

CURATOR: Sébastien Allard

Today universally famous for his landscapes, Camille Corot was also an immense painter of figures; Degas particularly appreciated him in this field, underlining his modernity. Portraits of intimate and strange nudes, Roman peasant women and monks absorbed in reading, children and workshop models, fashionable women and men in armour, Corot successfully approached all genres, from the very small effigies of his intimates to his monumental fantasy figures, of which the Woman with the Pearl of the Louvre is the most famous. Contemporary as well of Ingres to whom he pays homage as of Courbet or of the young Manet, with whom he confronts himself, Corot, during his long career, seeks, with his figures, to build a bridge between tradition and modernity. Rich with some sixty masterpieces from the most important public and private collections in Europe and the United States (Musée du Louvre, Musée des Beaux-Arts de Lyon, Musée d'Art et d'Histoire de Genève, Fondation Collection E.G. Bührle in Zurich, the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, the National Gallery of Art in Washington, the Thyssen-Bornemisza collection in Madrid,...), the exhibition organized by the Marmottan Monet Museum intends to highlight this original and brilliant aspect of the production of the first modern landscape gardener.

NATIONAL GALLERY OF ART, WASHINGTON (US) 9 SEPTEMBRE 2018 - 30 DÉCEMBRE 2018

Corot: Women

CURATOR: MARY MORTON

Camille Corot is best known as the great master of landscape painting in the 19th century who bridged the French neoclassical tradition with the impressionist movement of the 1870s. His figure paintings constitute a much smaller, less well-known portion of his oeuvre, but arguably are of equal importance to the history of art, in particular for the founders of modernist painting such as Paul Cézanne, Pablo Picasso, and Georges Braque. Dressed in rustic Italian costume or stretched nude on a grassy plain, Corot’s women read, dream, and gaze, conveying a mysterious sense of inner life. His sophisticated use of color and his deft, delicate touch applied to the female form resulted in pictures of quiet majesty.

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