Visite de la BARNES FOUNDATION avant demenagement
A NE PAS RATER avant le deplacement a Philadelphie Centre. ONLY 6 spaces LEFT
VISITE LMNY le 12 OCTOBRE
Apres avoir fait la une des journaux pour savoir si la Barnes Foundation allait oui ou non quitter son site originel.........la decision a ete prise........
Derniers mois ,..derniere annee avant la fermeture? en tout cas une visite a planifier sans tarder.
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
September 10, 2007, Lower Merion, PA - The Barnes Foundation announced today the selection of Tod Williams and Billie Tsien of New York to design its new facility on the Benjamin Franklin Parkway in Center City, Philadelphia. The firm was selected following a unanimous decision by the Foundation's Board of Trustees.
ART COLLECTION The Barnes Foundation houses one of the finest collections of French Impressionist, Post-Impressionist, and early Modern paintings in the world, including an extraordinary number of masterpieces by Pierre-Auguste Renoir (181), Paul Cézanne (69), and Henri Matisse (59). The collection also includes important works by Pablo Picasso (46), Chaim Soutine (21), Henri Rousseau (18), Amedeo Modigliani (16), Edgar Degas (11), Vincent van Gogh (7), Georges Seurat (6), Edouard Manet (4), and Claude Monet (4). Although renowned for its late 19th- and early 20th-century European paintings, the Foundation's collection also includes important examples of American paintings and works on paper, including works by Charles Demuth, William Glackens, and Maurice and Charles Prendergast; African sculpture; Native American ceramics, jewelry, and textiles; Asian paintings, prints, and sculptures; Medieval manuscripts and sculptures; Old Master paintings, including works by El Greco, Peter Paul Rubens, and Titian; ancient Egyptian, Greek, and Roman art; and American and European decorative arts and metalwork.
VISITE LMNY le 12 OCTOBRE
Apres avoir fait la une des journaux pour savoir si la Barnes Foundation allait oui ou non quitter son site originel.........la decision a ete prise........
Derniers mois ,..derniere annee avant la fermeture? en tout cas une visite a planifier sans tarder.
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
September 10, 2007, Lower Merion, PA - The Barnes Foundation announced today the selection of Tod Williams and Billie Tsien of New York to design its new facility on the Benjamin Franklin Parkway in Center City, Philadelphia. The firm was selected following a unanimous decision by the Foundation's Board of Trustees.
ART COLLECTION The Barnes Foundation houses one of the finest collections of French Impressionist, Post-Impressionist, and early Modern paintings in the world, including an extraordinary number of masterpieces by Pierre-Auguste Renoir (181), Paul Cézanne (69), and Henri Matisse (59). The collection also includes important works by Pablo Picasso (46), Chaim Soutine (21), Henri Rousseau (18), Amedeo Modigliani (16), Edgar Degas (11), Vincent van Gogh (7), Georges Seurat (6), Edouard Manet (4), and Claude Monet (4). Although renowned for its late 19th- and early 20th-century European paintings, the Foundation's collection also includes important examples of American paintings and works on paper, including works by Charles Demuth, William Glackens, and Maurice and Charles Prendergast; African sculpture; Native American ceramics, jewelry, and textiles; Asian paintings, prints, and sculptures; Medieval manuscripts and sculptures; Old Master paintings, including works by El Greco, Peter Paul Rubens, and Titian; ancient Egyptian, Greek, and Roman art; and American and European decorative arts and metalwork.
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