Thannhauser Collection : French Modernism at the Guggenheim /

Thannhauser Collection : French Modernism at the Guggenheim /

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Bibliographic Details
Corporate author / creator:	Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, creator.
Imprint:	New York, New York : Guggenheim Museum Publications, [2018] New York, New York : available through ARTBOOK / D.A.P. ©2018
Description:	330 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 30 cm
Language:	English
Subject:	Thannhauser, Justin, -- 1892-1976 -- Art collections -- Catalogs. Thannhauser, Justin, -- 1892-1976. Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum -- Catalogs. Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum. Art -- Private collections -- Catalogs. Art, French -- 20th century -- Catalogs. Art, French -- 19th century -- Catalogs. Modernism (Art) -- France -- Catalogs. Impressionism (Art) -- France -- Catalogs. Impressionism (Art) -- New York (State) -- New York -- Catalogs. Art, French. Art -- Private collections. Impressionism (Art) Modernism (Art) France. New York (State) -- New York. Catalogs.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11710231

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Varying Form of Title:	French Modernism at the Guggenheim
Other authors / contributors:	Fontanella, Megan M., editor. Barten, Julie, contributor. Thannhauser, Justin, 1892-1976, donor.
ISBN:	9780892075423 0892075422
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary:	When Justin K. Thannhauser (1892-1976) brought his collection of modern art to the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in 1965, it was his crowning achievement after more than a half-century as one of Europe's most influential and distinguished collectors and dealers. The collection's formal bequeathal to the Guggenheim in 1978 represents a watershed moment for the museum. Today its Thannhauser Collection constitutes the core of the Guggenheim's impressionist, postimpressionist, and School of Paris holdings, including 32 works by Pablo Picasso. This volume presents the astonishing collection in full, offering a concentrated survey of works by such modern masters as Braque, Cézanne, Degas, Gauguin, Manet, Picasso, Pissarro and Van Gogh, among others. Throughout, artworks are given rich context and detail with historical installation views and high-tech conservation images. Short essays on collection highlights by current and former Guggenheim curators and conservators illuminate the artists' stylistic innovations as they sought to liberate art from academic genres and techniques. The book also features extensive technical analyses, offering rare insight into the artists' materials and processes based on the latest advances in conservation technology. A lead essay by Megan Fontanella recounts the genesis of Thannhauser's collection and its eventual transfer to the Guggenheim Museum. Tracing his ambitious career as gallerist and collector in Europe during the interwar years and into the calamity of World War II, she explores how Thannhauser's lifelong support for experimental art and eye for original talent helped define the modernist vanguard of 20th-century art.

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Summary:	When Justin K. Thannhauser (1892-1976) brought his collection of modern art to the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in 1965, it was his crowning achievement after more than a half century as one of Europe's most influential and distinguished collectors and dealers. The collection's formal bequeathal to the Guggenheim in 1978 represents a watershed moment for the museum - today its Thannhauser Collection constitutes the core of the Guggenheim's Impressionist, Post-Impressionist and School of Paris holdings, including thirty-two works by Pablo Picasso.<br> <br> This lavishly illustrated volume presents the astonishing collection in full, offering a concentrated survey of works by such modern masters as Georges Braque, Paul Cézanne, Edgar Degas, Paul Gauguin, Édouard Manet, Picasso, Camille Pissarro, and Vincent van Gogh, among others. Throughout, artworks are given rich context and detail with historical installation views and high-tech conservation images. Short essays on collection highlights by current and former Guggenheim curators and conservators illuminate the artists' stylistic innovations as they sought to liberate art from academic genres and techniques. The book also features extensive technical analyses, offering rare insight into the artists' materials and processes based on the latest advances in conservation technology. A lead essay by Megan Fontanella recounts the genesis of Thannhauser's collection and its eventual transfer to the Guggenheim Museum.<br> <br>
Physical Description:	330 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 30 cm
Bibliography:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:	9780892075423 0892075422