Gauguin to Picasso
Subtitle: masterworks from Switzerland, the Staechelin & Im Obersteg collections
By: editing by Dorothy Kosinski and Renée Maurer
Contributors: Phillips Collection
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 176
ISBN-13: 9781907804601
Subjects: European Painting; Art collections; Painting; Exhibitions; Private collections
Description: This is a unique chance to see works from two remarkable private Swiss collections. It pays tribute to two pioneering supporters of modernism, Rudolf Staechelin (1881-1946) and Karl Im Obersteg (1883-1969), industrialists and businessmen, close friends, and enthusiastic champions of impressionist, post-impressionist, and school of Paris artists."Gauguin to Picasso," "Masterworks from Switzerland "features over sixty celebrated paintings from their collections, created during the mid-nineteenth and early twentieth century by twenty-two world-famous artists. Masterpieces include Paul Gauguin's "Nafea faa ipoipo "("When will you Marry?") (1892), the most expensive work of art ever sold, Vincent van Gogh's "Daubigny's Garden "(1890), Pablo Picasso's double-sided canvas "Femme dans la loge / Buveuse d'absinthe "(1901), and Marc Chagall's three monumental Rabbi portraits. There are extraordinary paintings by artists of international stature including Swiss master Ferdinand Hodler, Russian expressionist painter Alexej Jawlensky, works by Edouard Manet, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Paul Cezanne, Claude Monet, Amedeo Modigliani, Georges Rouault, and Wassily Kandinsky.The volume also studies how Staechlin and Im Obersteg developed friendships with and influenced the work of artists, and how they came to create two of the most significant collections of modern art in Europe.
Notes: "This catalogue accompanies the exhibition "Gauguin to Picasso: Masterworks from Switzerland, The Staechelin & Im Obersteg Collections" on display at The Phillips Collection, Washington, DC, from October 10th, 2015-January 10th, 2016"--Title page verso.

Includes bibliographical references and index.