News Release
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August 27, 2021
Artizon Museum, Ishibashi Foundation

Selections from the Ishibashi Foundation Collection

The Impressionists: Tales of Painterly Friendships
October 2 (Sat.), 2021 ‒ January 10 (Mon.), 2022

Marie BRACQUEMOND
On the Terrace at Sèvres
1880 ★

The Artizon Museum, Ishibashi Foundation (Director: Ishibashi Hiroshi) presents The
Impressionists: Tales of Painterly Friendships, showing selected works from the Ishibashi
Foundation Collection in the 5th Floor Gallery. This exhibition includes 40 Impressionist
paintings and 14 portrait photographs of the artists, highlighting the little-known personalrelationships among these painters while offering visitors the opportunity to enjoy famous
works by the Impressionists.
When we speak of the Impressionists, the names Monet and Renoir would come immediately tomind. They and other friends who had met as students in art school, seeking a place to display
their work, held what became known as the “Impressionist Exhibition.” The Impressionists, whowere active in nineteenth-century France, had strong bonds of friendship. The young Cézanne,
for example, would line up his canvas with Pissarro’s to paint beside him, looking up to him likea father. Caillebotte even had Renoir serve as the executor of his will.
This exhibition is organized around seven tales of painterly ties, as friends, teachers andstudents, husband and wife, relationships that connect “Manet, Morisot, and Gonzalès“, ” Degas
and Cassatt”, “Pissarro and Cézanne”, “Caillebotte and Renoir”, “van Gogh and Gauguin”,“Monsieur and Madame Bracquemond”, and “Monet, Sisley, and Signac.”
Impressionist paintings are a centerpiece of the Ishibashi Foundation Collection. This exhibition
approaches the Impressionist collection, now even more comprehensive through recentacquisitions, from a new perspective, tales of relationships among the artists.

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Selections from the Ishibashi Foundation Collection

Special Section: France and Wine in the 20th Century, in Illustrated Books
The Ishibashi Foundation Collection includes illustrated books on the themesof wine and spirits, published in the twentieth century, for which French artists
such as Utrillo and Dufy created the illustrations. The special section in the 4F
Gallery introduces Vins, Fleurs, et Flammes (Wines, flowers and flames, 1952)and two other books with illustrations by Utrillo and other artists.
Maurice UTRILLO
Illustration for “Wine, Flowers and Flames” (Text by Georges Duhamel, et al.) Published in 1952

The 4F Gallery as a whole presents outstanding examples of modern and contemporary
masterpieces in the Ishibashi Foundation Collection.

Exhibition Overview
Exhibition title:

Selections from the Ishibashi Foundation Collection
The Impressionists: Tales of Painterly Friendships
Special Section: France and Wine in the 20th Century, in Illustrated Books

Organized by:

Artizon Museum, Ishibashi Foundation

Venue:

Artizon Museum, 5F Gallery (The Impressionists: Tales of Painterly Friendships)
4F Gallery (Special Section: France and Wine in the 20th Century, in Illustrated Books)

Exhibition period:

October 2 [Sat.], 2021−January 10 [Mon.], 2022

Opening hours:

10:00 ‒ 18:00 (until 20:00 on Fridays) *Last entry 30 minutes before closing.

Closed:Mondays (except January 10), December 28 to January 3

Admission (incl.tax):

Designated entry system by date and time
Online ticket: 1,200 yen, Same day ticket (on sale at museum): 1,500 yen
Students Free entry (Advance online booking required.)*This admission fee gives the visitor access to the concurrent exhibition.
*Same day tickets on sale at the museum are available only for time slotsthat have not reached full capacity.
*Advance booking is not required children up to junior high school.

Curators:

KAGAWA Kyoko (The Impressionists: Tales of Painterly Friendships)
KUROSAWA Yoshiko (Special Section: France and Wine in the 20th Century, inIllustrated Books)

The exhibition detail is subject to change without notice.
Artizon Museum 1-7-2 Kyobashi, Chuo-ku, Tokyo 104-0031, Japan
Tel. Domestic: 050-5541-8600 International: 047-316-2772 (Hello Dial) www.artizon.museum

2/3Concurrent Exhibition
Jam Session: The Ishibashi Foundation Collection×Morimura Yasumasa

M’s Gift of the Sea: Auto-Mythology
Jam Sessions are joint performances by the Ishibashi Foundation Collection andcontemporary artists. For our second session, we welcome Morimura Yasumasa.
Morimura has continued to create “self-portrait-ish works”. For this Jam Session,
Morimura addresses Aoki Shigeru’s A Gift of the Sea head on. He gives shape to thehistory of the many changes in Japanese culture, politics, and thought since theMeiji period(1868-1912), when Aoki created that work, in his own Morimura-style
A Gift of the Sea―M’s Gift of the Sea. He has elevated his ardent feelings for Aoki into
a new series of works.
Venue：6F Gallery
Curators: TADOKORO Natsuko, ITO Eriko
URL：https://www.artizon.museum/en/exhibition/detail/73

Images for Press use

MORIMURA Yasumasa, Self Portrait /Youth (Aoki), 2016/2021, collection of the artist

If using only one image, choose one indicated with a ★.
Please include image credits as provided below. Do not trim images or overlay them with text.

The Impressionists: Tales of Painterly Friendships

Édouard MANET,Mary CASSATT,Paul CÉZANNE,

Pierre-Auguste RENOIR,

Self-Portrait,

The Sun Bath (After the Bath), 1901

Mont Sainte-Victoire and Château Noir,

Mlle Georgette Charpentierc.1904-06

Seated,1878-79

1876

Special Section:
France and Wine in
the 20th Century,in Illustrated Books

Vincent VAN GOGH,

Claude MONET, Twilight, Venice, c.1908

Maurice UTRILLO

Windmills on Montmartre,

Illustration for

1886

Wine, Flowers and Flames”(Text by Georges Duhamel, et al.)Published in1952

For inquiries about this press release:Artizon Museum Public Relations GroupE-mail: publicity@artizon.jp TEL: 080-2448-0444 (Direct) 1-7-2 Kyobashi, Chuo-ku, Tokyo 104-0031

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