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Degas to Picasso: Modern Masters

Museum of Fine Arts, Boston:Wednesday, January 18, 2006 - Sunday, July 23, 2006

LEFT: Toward the end of his working life, Degas experimented with intense color and almost expressionistic use of pastel, as in this superb example, Dancers in Rose. Around 1900, Degas was known as one of the great “old masters” of the modern movement; his subjects and style were to inspire a younger generation. RIGHT: Picasso is one of the most significant painter/ printmakers of the Western tradition. His imposing, boldly patterned Woman at the Window (1952) is one of the most expressive of the several hundred inventive etchings that span his long artistic career.

“Degas to Picasso: Modern Masters” is an ambitious, kaleidoscopic survey of European art from 1900 to the 1960s. This unprecedented panorama of modernism from the MFA’s collection occupies the Torf and Trustman Galleries as well as the Museum’s Lower Rotunda, presenting a rare opportunity to see more than 280 works in diverse media, some newly acquired and others rarely on view due to space limitations or sensitivity to light. From the late works of Degas, Gauguin, Munch, and Rodin through the last creative outbursts of Giacometti and Picasso, the exhibition explores major figures in twentieth-century Europe, from late impressionism and symbolism to mid-century modernism. ...

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