January 24, 2020

Yokohama Museum of Art Collection
February 15- May 24, 2020
Western Art from Yokohama Museum of Art Collection
From Woodcut Illustration to Boltanski―Painting, Print, Photography, Sculptures
This exhibition focuses on works by
European and American artists in the Yokohama Museumof Art collection. Paintings, prints, photographs andsculptures will be presented in art historical order. It is theMuseum’s first exhibition based exclusively on ourinventory of Western Art.
Works by Western artists in the Museum
collection number around 1000, including oil paintings,watercolors, prints and sculptures. The collection is
distinguished by Surrealist paintings such as Salvador
Dalí’s Geodesical Portrait of Gala and Rene Magritte’s

Paul CÉZANNE
Mont Saint-Victoire Seen from Gardanne
1892-95, oil on canvas, 73.0×92.0cm

The Museum of the King, Dada and Constructivist works
by artists such as Kurt Schwitters and Vladimir Tatlin who overturned traditional concepts of art in thefirst half of the 20th century, as well as examples of French modern art such as Paul Cézanne’s MontSaint-Victoire Seen from Gardanne, Pablo Picasso’s Sleeping Woman in an Armchair, and Constantin
Brancusi’s Bird in Space.
This exhibition also offers an opportunity to view rarely displayed 16th to the 19th century
prints from the former collection of author, mountaineer, and Yokohama resident Kojima Usui.
Crucifixion with Longinus, a woodcut by Urs Graf is a leaf from
Matthias Ringmann’s Passion (1506 Strasburg, 1st edition). It
exemplifies early illustrated books, produced from around 1470,
printed by combining movable type text with woodcut illustrations.
The leaves from The Museum Claudes album (published around1840), based on the etcher’s exquisite interpretation of numerous
sketches by brilliant 17th century landscape painter Claude Lorrain,
employ elaborate aquatint technique and reveal a high standard ofmanual reproduction art prior to the advent of photography. Theformer Kojima collection also includes prints by Barbizon artists
Camille Corot and Charles-François Daubigny, Impressionists
Édouard Manet, Edgar Degas and Pierre-Auguste Renoir, and by
Pablo Picasso and Henri Matisse - pioneers of 20th century Cubism
Urs GRAF
Crucifixion with Longinus
ca. 1506, woodcut, 21.8×15.5cm

and Fauvism.
The development of photomechanical processes
eliminated the need for manual work in reproduction of artworks.

This allowed for the mass reproduction of masterpieces and greatly changed the way art would beappreciated. At the same time, the widespread prevalence of photographs awakened artist interest inetching and woodcut media to produce multiple autograph originals. At the beginning of the 20thcentury, photography had a great influence on artistic expression. Dada, Constructivist, and Surrealist
artists either incorporated photographs into their paintings and three dimensional works or created fully
photographic works. Contemporary artist Christian Boltanski used graduation photographs of Jewish
students in Vienna who likely became victims of the Holocaust as an important element in his work to
provoke viewers to contemplate mortality.
Featuring around 260 artworks (paintings, prints, photographs, and sculptures) from theYokohama Museum of Art collection built up over a period of more than 30 years, this exhibition traces
500 years of Western art history from woodcut illustrations through to the contemporary art of ChristianBoltanski. It invites reflection on the rich relationship between manual and mechanical processes of art.

Frederick Christian LEWIS after Claude LORRAIN“The Museum Claudes” Part 3, No.4
1840, etching, aquatint, 19.5×24.8cm,
donated by KOJIMA Yutaka (former collection of KOJIMAUsui)

André MASSON
Narcissus
1934, oil on canvas, 114.0×94.0cm©ADAGP, Paris & JASPAR, Tokyo, 2019
C3129

Georges BRAQUE
Still Life II1912 (1953 print), etching, 32.6×45.5cm©ADAGP, Paris & JASPAR, Tokyo, 2019 C3129

Kurt SCHWITTERS
Merzpainting 1C The Doublepicture
1920, assemblage, oil on cardboard,wood, 15.6×13.7cm

Christian BOLTANSKI
Altar to the Chases High School
1987, photographs, steel box forbiscuits, lamp, electric wire,
245.0×210.0×d23.0cm©ADAGP, Paris & JASPAR, Tokyo, 2019
C3129

Outline
Yokohama Museum of Art Collection
February 15- May 24, 2020
Western Art from Yokohama Museum of Art Collection
From Woodcut Illustration to Boltanski―Painting, Print, Photography, Sculptures
Venue:

Yokohama Museum of Art(3-4-1, Minatomirai, Nishi-ku, Yokohama, 220-0012)
https://yokohama.art.museum/eng/

Dates:

February 15 (Sat.) - May 24 (Sun.), 2020

Open hours:10:00-18:00*Open until 20:00 on Fridays and Saturdays in May.
*Admission until 30 minutes before closing.

Closed:Thursdays

Organized by:

Yokohama Museum of Art［Yokohama Arts Foundation］

TicketAdults
University and High school students
Junior high school studentsChildren under 12¥500 (¥400)¥300 (¥240)¥100 (¥ 80)
Free* ( )＝Group of 20 or more (pre-booking required)* Free Admission for high school and younger student with valid ID on every Saturday.
* Free Admission on March 28 (Sat.)* Visitors with disabilities and one person accompanying them are admitted free of charge. (Please present a certificate at the entrance.)* Collection gallery is available with a ticket of Special Exhibition.

ContactFujii (Ms.), Yamamoto (Ms.), Umezawa (Ms.), Kuwahara (Ms.)
Public Relations, Yokohama Museum of Art
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