Till 6 September at Doge’s Palace, DUCAL APARTMENTS
A key figure in art during the late 19th century and the revolutionary period of the early avant-gardes, famed for his dreamlike atmospheres, enchanted landscapes and jungle scenes, Henri Rousseau (Laval, 1844 – Paris, 1910) has always been impossible to categorize. Any attempt to pigeonhole his work is pointless, as the very way in which it has been interpreted is largely the result of a series of misunderstandings. At the same time, however, the power of his painting, initially mocked by critics but appreciated by artists, is a phenomenon unparalleled in the field of art at the turn of the century.
The Douanier Rousseau is now the subject of an extraordinary exhibition featuring over a hundred works from major international institutions, including some forty masterpieces by the artist and sixty works for comparison. Organized by the Fondazione Musei Civici di Venezia with scholarly collaboration and exceptional loans from the Musée d’Orsay and Musée de l’Orangerie in Paris under the auspices of the Soprintendenza per i Beni Architettonici e Paesaggistici di Venezia e Laguna. Initially conceived by the curators Guy Cogeval and Gabriella Belli and developed with the cooperation of Laurence des Cars and Claire Bernardi and the support of Elisabetta Barisoni, the project is designed to present the fruits of studies commenced more than three years ago rather than simply celebrate the French painter’s primitivism once again. Art-historical and critical light is thus shed on Rousseau’s work as a key point of reference for the great figures of the early avant-garde, for intellectuals like Apollinaire and Jarry, for great collectors like Wilhelm Uhde and Paul Guillaume, but also for many painters both before and after the developments of Cubism and Futurism, such as Cézanne, Gauguin, Klee, Morandi, Carrà, Kahlo, Kandinsky and Picasso. All these artists are included in the show with works that establish coherent dialogue with those painted by the Douanier in his short but intense creative period between 1885 and 1910.
The presentation along side them of select works by ancient masters such as Liberale da Verona, the Master of the Lombard Fruit Bowl, Scheggia (Giovanni di ser Giovanni) and Goya provides completely new critical insight into the vein of archaism that runs parallel to classicism through the centuries and appears to reach a watershed in the late 19th and early 20th century with Rousseau’s work. An extraordinary exhibition that never took place in Italy before.
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Sunday–Thursday: 9.00 – 19. 00
Friday and Saturday: 9.00 – 20.00
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Credits
1. Henri Rousseau
La Charmeuse de serpents/ L’Incantatrice di serpenti
1907
olio su tela, cm 167 x 189,5
Parigi, Musée d’Orsay
© RMN-Grand Palais (Musée d’Orsay)/Hervé Lewandowski
2. Henri Rousseau
La Guerre dit aussi La chevauchée de la Discorde/ La Guerra detta anche La cavalcata della Discordia
1894 ca.
olio su tela, cm 114 x 195
Parigi, Musée d’Orsay
© RMN-Grand Palais (Musée d’Orsay)/Tony Querrec
3. Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes ( Fuendetodos, Saragozza, 1746-Bordeaux, 1828)
Estragos de la guerra – Carneficine della guerra (dalla serie I disastri della guerra)
1810 – 1823 ca.
acquaforte, bulino, puntasecca, mm 242 x 328
Milano, Civica Raccolta delle Stampe Achille Bertarelli- Castello Sforzesco
4. Antonfrancesco di Giovanni detto lo Scheggia (San Giovanni Valdarno, Arezzo, 1406-Firenze, 1486)
Trionfo della Morte
1465 – 1470
tempera su tavola, cm 55,5 x 65
Siena, Museo Civico
© 2014 Foto Scala, Firenze – su concessione Ministero Beni e Attività Culturali
5. Henri Rousseau
Les Pêcheurs à la ligne/ Pescatori con lenza
1908 – 1909
olio su tela, cm 46 x 55
Parigi, Musée de l’Orangerie, Collection J. Walter- P. Guillaume
© RMN-Grand Palais (Musée d’Orsay)/Hervé Lewandowski
6. Georges Seurat (Parigi, 1859-1891)
Paysage de l’Ile-de-France / Paesaggio dell’’Ile-de-France
1881-1882
olio su tela, cm 32 x 40
Parigi, Musée d’Orsay, in deposito presso Bordeaux, Musée des Beaux-Arts
Photo © RMN-Grand Palais/A. Danvers
7. Henri Rousseau
La Noce (Une noce à la campagne) / Nozze in campagna
1905 circa
olio su tela, cm 163 x 114
Parigi, Musée de l’Orangerie, Collection J. Walter- P. Guillaume
© RMN-Grand Palais (Musée d’Orsay)/Hervé Lewandowski
8. Maurice Denis (Granville, 1870- Parigi, 1943)
La famille Mellerio/La famiglia Mellerio
1897
olio su tela, cm 118 x 110
Parigi, Musée d’Orsay
© RMN-Grand Palais (Musée d’Orsay)/Hervé Lewandowski
9. Henri Rousseau
Portrait de Madame M./ Ritratto di Madame M.
1890 circa
olio su tela, cm 198 x 114,5
Parigi, Musée d’Orsay
© RMN-Grand Palais (Musée d’Orsay)/Hervé Lewandowski
10. Paula Modersohn-Becker (Dresdam 1876-Worpswede,1907)
Bildnis Lee Hoetger vor Blumengrund / Ritratto di Lee Hoetger su sfondo fiorito
1906
olio su tela, cm 92,4 x 73,6
Brema, Museen Böttcherstraße, Paula Modersohn-Becker Museum
11. Frida Kahlo (Coyoacàn, Città del Messico, 1907-1954)
Retrato de una dama en blanco/ Ritratto di donna in bianco
1929
olio su tela, cm 119 x 81
Berlino, Collezione privata
©Banco de México Diego Rivera Frida Kahlo Museums Trust, Mexico, D.F. by
12.Henri Rousseau
La basse-cour/ Il cortile
1896 – 1898
olio su tela, cm 24,6 x 32,9
Parigi, Centre Pompidou, Musée National d’Art moderne – Centre de création industrielle, lascito di Nina Kandinsky (1981)
Photo © Centre Pompidou, MNAM-CCI, Dist. RMN-Grand Palais/Droits
réservés
13. Vassily Kandinsky (Mosca, 1866-Neully-sur- Seine, Parigi, 1944)
Schwarzer Fleck I / Macchia nera I
1912
olio su tela, cm 100 x 130
San Pietroburgo, The State Russian Museum
© Mondadori Portfolio/AKG Images
14.Henri Rousseau
Promeneurs dans un parc/ Parco con passanti
1908 – 1909 circa
olio su tela, cm 46 x 55
Parigi, Musée de l’Orangerie, Collection J. Walter- P. Guillaume
© RMN-Grand Palais (Musée d’Orsay)/Hervé Lewandowski
15.Henri Rousseau
La carriole du Père Junier/ Il biroccino di papà Junier
1908
olio su tela, cm 97 x 129
Parigi, Musée de l’Orangerie, Collection J. Walter- P. Guillaume
© RMN-Grand Palais (Musée de l’Orangerie)/Franck Raux
16.Henri Rousseau
Le Navire dans la tempête/ Transatlantico in tempesta
1899 ca.
olio su tela, cm 54 x 65
Parigi, Musée de l’Orangerie, Collection J. Walter- P. Guillaume
© RMN-Grand Palais (Musée de l’Orangerie)/Franck Raux
17.Henri Rousseau
La Falaise/ Paesaggio con Falesia
(post 1898)
olio su tela, cm 21 x 35
Parigi, Musée de l’Orangerie, Collection J. Walter- P. Guillaume
© RMN-Grand Palais (Musée de l’Orangerie)/Franck Raux
18.Henri Rousseau
L’Enfant à la poupée/ Bambina con bambola
(1904 – 1905)
olio su tela, cm 67 x 52
Parigi, Musée de l’Orangerie, Collection J. Walter- P. Guillaume
© RMN-Grand Palais (Musée de l’Orangerie)/Franck Raux
19.Henri Rousseau
Natura morta
1910
olio su tela, cm 38 x 46
Collezione privata, Svizzera
20.Odilon Redon (Bordeaux, 1840- Parigi, 1916)
Bouquet de fleurs des champs dans un vase au col long/Mazzo di fiori di campo in un vaso a collo lungo
1912 irca
pastello su carta crema, cm 57 x 35
Parigi, Musée d’Orsay
© RMN-Grand Palais (Musée d’Orsay)/Hervé Lewandowski
21. Louis Anquetin (Etrépagny, 1861- Parigi, 1932)
Henry Samary
1890 circa
olio su tela, cm 71 x 59
Parigi, Musée d’Orsay
© Musée d’Orsay, Dist. RMN-Grand Palais/Patrice Schmidt
22.William Bouguereau (La Rochelle, 1825-1905)
Egalité devant la mort/ Uguaglianza davanti alla morte
1848
olio su tela, cm 141 x 269,
Parigi, Musée d’Orsay
© Musée d’Orsay, Dist. RMN-Grand Palais/Patrice Schmidt
23.Henri Rousseau
Moi-même, portrait-paysage/Io: ritrattopaesaggio
1889-1890
Olio su tela, com 146 x 113
Praga, Národní galerie, acquisto dello Stato Cecoslovacco nel 1923
© White Images/Scala, Firenze
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