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31. CLASSICS OF MODERN ART,
13 October - 8 December 1985
The exhibition included works by the following artists: Bonnard, Braque,
Gris, Léger, Matisse and Picasso.
The exhibition was assembled and organized by the Sara
Hildén Art Museum. The following museums and galleries lent the
works for this exhibition: Kunstmuseum Basel; Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam;
Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris; Tate Gallery, London;
Musée National Fernand Léger, Biot; Moderna Museet, Stockholm;
Nationalmuseum, Stockholm; Sonja Henies og Niels Onstads Stiftelser, Oslo;
Nasjonalgalleriet, Oslo; Galerie Beyeler, Basel; Galerie Louise Leiris,
Paris. Many works were also borrowed from Finnish museums and private
collectors.
The aim of the exhibition was to introduce to the Finnish
public examples of the works of the six painters who had a major influence
on the development of modern art. The selected works represented the essence
of European modernism, the classic mainstream which broke free of Expressionism
at the beginning of the 1900's and which left behind the influence of
Abstract Expressionism at the end of the 1940's.
The focus of the exhibition included neither abstract
geometrical art nor Surrealism. Most of the paintings were from the period
between the two world wars. The importance of the 1920's was emphasized,
when classicism dominated European cultural life in various ways during
that decade.
The name of the exhibition, "Classics of Modern Art",
also paid tribute to the selected artists for it emphasized their established
and unchallenged position as major influences on the development of European
Modernism.
Catalogue:
Classics of Modern Art
1985, 160 pages
Sara Hildén Art Museum Publication 24
ISSN 0357-3001
Not on sale
66,023 visitors attended the exhibition.
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