Manet
Subtitle: three paintings from the Norton Simon Museum
By: David Pullins
Contributors: Manet, Édouard, 1832-1883; Frick Collection
Publisher: The Frick Collection
Published: 2019
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 95
ISBN-13: 9780912114781
Subjects: Exhibitions; Painting; Norton Simon Museum (Pasadena, Calif.)
Other titles: Three paintings from the Norton Simon Museum
Description: Considered the father of Impressionism, Post-Impressionism, and, by some, twentieth-century abstraction, Édouard Manet (1832-1883) was a revolutionary in his own time and a legend thereafter. Beyond his pivotal role in art history as the creator of such iconic masterworks as Olympia (1862-63) and Luncheon on the Grass (1863), Manet's vision has come to define how we understand modern urban life and Paris, the so-called capital of the nineteenth-century. Next fall the Frick will present three Manet canvases from the collection of the Norton Simon Museum in Pasadena, California, marking the first time the paintings will be exhibited together elsewhere since their acquisition. The exhibition will present the paintings as examples encapsulating three views of the artist's life and work. Each canvas offers an opportunity to consider the range of Manet's pioneering vision: Still Life with Fish and Shrimp (1864) focuses attention on the paint itself; The Ragpicker (ca. 1865-71; possibly reworked in 1876) highlights the artist's use of art historical references; and, finally, Madame Manet (ca. 1876) looks at his biography. Manet: Three Paintings from the Norton Simon Museum is the seventh in a series of acclaimed reciprocal loans with the California museum. The exhibition and accompanying catalogue which features new scholarly material on technical analysis, provenance, and dating are organized and written by the Frick's Assistant Curator, David Pullins. Exhibition: The Frick Collection, New York, USA (16.10.2019 - 05.01.2020).
Notes: "This catalogue is published on the occasion of Manet: Three Paintings from the Norton Simon Museum, an exhibition on view at The Frick Collection from October 16, 2019, to January 5, 2020"--Title page verso.

"Norton Simon acquired his three Manets between 1956 and 1968. Madame Manet, purchased in April 1956, and Still Life with Fish and Shrimp, purchased in January 1960, are examples of the way that Simon went about acquisitions while his collection was still essentially personal and furnished his modest, ranch-style home in Hancock Park, Los Angeles. The Ragpicker, a monumental, institutionally scaled painting purchased in March 1968, attests to Simon's ambition to create a "collection without walls" that would travel the United States under the aegis of the Hunt Food & Industries Museum. Begun in 1966, this group of works gave rise to the public collection that is today the Norton Simon Museum."--ECIP galley.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 82-90) and index.
Table of contents: title: Director's foreword; title: Acknowledgments; title: Introduction; title: "Pure painting": Manet's still life with fish and shrimp; title: "Manet pasticheur": Manet's Ragpicker; title: "Of a tranquil bourgeois": Manet's Madame Manet; title: Provenance, literature, and exhibition histories; title: Bibliography; title: Index.