News Release
ATZ240823E_E

August 23, 2024
Artizon Museum, Ishibashi Foundation

Looking Human: The Figure Painting
November ２[Sat], 2024‒February 9[Sun], 2025

André DERAIN, Portrait of Vlaminck playing theViolin,1905, Artizon Museum, Ishibashi Foundation

The Artizon Museum, Ishibashi Foundation (Director: Ishibashi Hiroshi), presents Looking
Human: The Figure Painting.
Pliny the Elder’s encyclopedic Naturalis Historia (77 CE) includes the story of the daughter ofa ceramic tile maker in Corinth, a city in ancient Greece, wanting a record of the young man
she loved, who was setting out on a trip. She drew an outline of his shadow on the wall.
In the latter half of the 18th and the early 19th century, that story was often mentioned as
the origin of painting. In fact, if we look at the history of art in Europe, “depicting a person,”figure painting, has long been a significant genre. Self-portraits by Edouard Manet and Paul
Cézanne both demonstrate their abilities and were opportunities to experiment with new
creative approaches. Pierre-Auguste Renoir’s portraits were an important source of incomefor him. In addition to actual human figures, portraits also depict the characters in stories.
This exhibition introduces a rich variety of figure paintings through 85 works from theIshibashi Foundation Collection—looking human, from ancient Greek ceramics to modernEuropean paintings.
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Exhibition Highlights
1. A panoramic view of figure paintings by modern European painters,including Manet, Cézanne, and Renoir
This exhibition presents a comprehensive view of figure paintings by artists active in Europe
in the 19th and 20th centuries, including Manet, Cézanne, and Renoir. If we consider therelationship between model and painter, for example, we find artists who had relationships
with the artists who painted them, their contemporaries. In André Derain’s Portrait ofVlaminck Playing the Violin, Vlaminck was his model. Derain’s signature is on the lower rightof the painting; on the lower left is the inscription, “My portrait by Derain.” By exploringthese paintings’ context—Who was the model? What was the story being depicted? —youwill enjoy the masterly figure paintings being exhibited here from new points of view.

Left： André DERAIN, Portrait of Vlaminck playing the Violin,1905, Artizon Museum, Ishibashi Foundation
Middle：Paul CÉZANNE, Self-Portrait with a Hat, c.1890-94, Artizon Museum, Ishibashi Foundation
Right: Pierre-Auguste RENOIR, Mlle Georgette Charpentier Seated, 1876, Artizon Museum, Ishibashi Foundation

2. Ancient Greek Ceramics, Exhibited in One Setting
Enjoy 30 examples of ancient Greek ceramic vessels displayed together. These ceramics aredecorated with a variety of images, including “Herakles and Kerberos,” “Man and Woman”
and “Woman” figures. As you explore them, compare their representations of the humanfigure with those by modern European artists, to grasp the abundance of styles andexpressive approaches that have emerged.

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Left： Painter of Boulogne 441, Attic Black-Figure Neck-Amphora, Herakles and Kerberos, c. 520-510 B.C., Artizon Museum,Ishibashi Foundation
Middle： Maplewood Painter, Apulian Red-Figure Bell-Krater, Man and Woman, The 2nd quarter of the 4th century B.C.
Artizon Museum, Ishibashi Foundation
Right：Rochester Group, Apulian Red-Figure Lekythos, Woman, c.340 B.C., Artizon Museum, Ishibashi Foundation

3. First exhibition of copies of ancient Roman works by Fujishima Takeji andHasegawa RokaJapanese artists who traveled to Italy have found ancient Roman works fascinating. This
exhibition presents, along with ancient Roman mosaics and fragments of murals, copies
made by two modern Japanese painters, Fujishima Takeji and Hasegawa Roka. Thesecopies are being displayed for the first time since the opening of the Artizon Museum. How
did these two artists express the people in those ancient Roman works? Enjoy this intensecross-cultural exploration.

HASEGAWA Roka, Copy after The Aldobrandini Wedding, 1955-56
Artizon Museum, Ishibashi Foundation

Additional Major Works on DisplayEva GONZALÈS, Sleep, c.1877-78
Artizon Museum, Ishibashi Foundation

Henri MATISSE, Patitcha(La Sultane), 1947
Artizon Museum,Ishibashi Foundation

Alberto GIACOMETTI, Yanaihara,
1958, Artizon Museum, Ishibashi
Foundation

3/5Pablo PICASSO, The Painter and His Model, 1963,
Artizon Museum, Ishibashi Foundation★ © 2024 - Succession Pablo Picasso - BCF (JAPAN)

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Looking Human: The Figure Painting
Artizon Museum, Ishibashi Foundation
Artizon Museum, 5F Gallery
November 2 [Sat], 2024 – February 9 [Sun], 2025
10:00 - 18:00 (until 20:00 on Fridays)*Last entry 30 minutes before closing.
Mondays (except November 4, January 13), November 5, December 28 –January 3, 14
Timed entry system(Online booking starts from September 3, 2024)
Online ticket: 1,200 yen
In-Person ticket (purchase at museum): 1,500 yen
Students: Free entry (Advance online booking required.)*In-Person ticket may be purchased at the museum, if the time slot is not full.
*Advance booking is not required for children up to junior high school age.
*This admission fee gives the visitor access to the concurrent exhibitions.

Curators:

KAGAWA Kyoko, HARA Sayuri

Concurrent exhibitions
Jam Session: The Ishibashi Foundation Collection × MOHRI Yuko–On Physis (6F Gallery)
The Artizon Museum has been holding its annual Jam Session, anexhibition consisting of a collaboration of works from the Ishibashi
Foundation Collection and new works by a contemporary artist,since the museum opened in 2020. For the fifth Jam Session, we
have invited Mohri Yuko, an artist of world-wide acclaim, to takepart.
MOHRI Yuko, Sketch for Piano Solo:
Belle-Île, 2024
Courtesy of the artist

This exhibition, Mohri’s first large-scale exhibition in Tokyo, presents
new and older works by Mohri along with works from the Ishibashi
Foundation Collection chosen from her perspective as an artist,
presenting “an organic, tranquil space filled with subtle sounds andmotions” to be experienced only here.

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Selections from the Ishibashi Foundation Collection

Special Section Matisse’s Studio (4F Gallery)

Henri MATISSE, Dancer and Armchair,Black Background, 1942
Artizon Museum, Ishibashi Foundation

Interiors were consistently important elements in paintings by HenriMatisse (1869-1954). Particularly from the 1940s on, his studio was avitally important space, where daily life and creating came together.
This exhibition, in connection with the acquisition of his Dancer andArmchair, Black Background (1942), explores, through works in theIshibashi Foundation Collection and from multiple viewpoints, therole of the studio in Matisse’s paintings.

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