Exhibition
From Greco to Dalí
The Great Spanish Masters of the Pérez Simón collection
Fifty masterpieces and more than twenty-five great masters, brought together through the sure and discerning taste of a great collector, present a remarkable overview of creative art in Spain over the last four hundred years.
A tribute to Spanish art at the Musée Jacquemart-André
For the first time ever, the Musée Jacquemart-André presents a group of paintings never before exhibited in France. The exhibition brings together works from different periods and various artistic movements, offering a fascinating aesthetic and artistic journey. Displaying these works side by side reveals the continuities and breaks with tradition that have marked the evolution of Spanish art.
Thematics
- The Golden Age of sacred painting with the works of El Greco, José de Ribera and Bartolomé Esteban MurilloAn
- Hispanic art of portraiture and court life : from Sanchez Coello to Goya, the artists seamlessly blended the portrayal of power with that of reality.
- A national identity : in large scenes from everyday life, this movement set out on canvas all the beauty of traditional costumes and scenes of rejoicing towns.
- Intimate subjects, beach games, playing in gardens and family life : Joaquin Sorolla is the undisputed master of scenes portraying simple pleasures. Vivid, strong, brilliant colours light his canvases.
- The modernity : the exhibition finishes with those great Spanish masters who revolutionised Western art. Pablo Picasso, Juan Gris, Joan Miró and Salvador Dalí established dialogues between Cubism and Surrealism. A rich selection of graphic and pictorial works by these artists offers a striking insight into this evolution up to and including Tapies.
The team
Curatorship
Nicolas Sainte Fare Garnot, an art historian specialising in 17th century French painting, has been the curator of the Jacquemart-André Museum since 1993. Since his appointment to the Jacquemart-André Museum, he has restored the layout of the collections to the original plan and initiated restoration and inventory programmes. With Culturespaces, he is helping to create a new dynamic in the Museum, providing his scientific assistance to temporary exhibitions whose subjects provide a deeper knowledge of the artists represented in the permanent collections.
Véronique Gerard-Powell, a senior lecturer in modern art history at the Université de Paris-Sorbonne, is a specialist in Spanish art. She has been involved in a number of exhibitions of Spanish art in France (Zurbaran at the Grand Palais in 1988; Goya at the Musée des Beaux-arts in Lille in 1999). She compiled the annotated catalogue of Spanish paintings for the Grenoble Museum (RMN, 2000) and, in collaboration with Claudie Ressort, the catalogue of Spanish and Portuguese paintings for the Louvre Museum (2002). She is currently completing a book written in collaboration with Claudie Ressort on “The Old Masters of the Spanish School in France between 1800 and 1914”.
Scenography
Hubert Le Gall, born in 1961, is a French designer, creator and sculptor of contemporary art. His work has formed the subject of numerous exhibitions throughout Europe. Since 2000 he has produced original scenographies for exhibitions.
