Vero Beach Museum of Art to Unveil New Exhibition

"French Moderns: Monet to Matisse, 1850–1950" arrives in Vero Beach February 1

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Claude Monet (French, 1840–1926). Rising Tide at Pourville, 1882. Oil on canvas, 26 x 32 in. (66 x 81.3 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Gift of Mrs. Horace O. Havemeyer, 41.1260. Photo by Brooklyn Museum
Claude Monet (French, 1840–1926). Rising Tide at Pourville, 1882. Oil on canvas, 26 x 32 in. (66 x 81.3 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Gift of Mrs. Horace O. Havemeyer, 41.1260. Photo by Brooklyn Museum

The Vero Beach Museum of Art will be home to the international touring exhibition “French Moderns: Monet to Matisse, 1850–1950,” on view February 1 through June 22. The exhibition is organized by Lisa Small, senior curator of European Art, and Richard Aste, former curator of European Art of the Brooklyn Museum.

Featuring 59 paintings and sculptures from the Brooklyn Museum’s European collection, “French Moderns” showcases some of the most renowned French Modernists, including: Pierre Bonnard, Gustave Caillebotte, Paul Cézanne, Marc Chagall, Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot, Gustave Courbet, Edgar Degas, Édouard Manet, Henri Matisse, Claude Monet, Berthe Morisot, Gabriele Münter, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, and Auguste Rodin. It also highlights artists such as Lajos Tihanyi, Aleksandr Yakovlev, and Giovanni Boldini, who settled in Paris and made significant contributions to the art scene. The exhibition is organized into four thematic groupings: Landscape, Still Life, Portraits and Figures, and The Body.

The exhibition is included with museum admission. Docents offer free guided tours at 2 p.m. daily. Visit vbmuseum.org for more information.

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