SHOTLIST
1.VS exts Royal Academy
2.WS of gallery
3. ‘Interior at Collioure’ (1905-06) by Henri Matisse
4. Pan of paintings
5. ‘ Murnau- Kohlgruberstrasse’ (1906) by Vasily Kandinsky
6.WS paintings
7. ‘Lady in a Yellow Straw Hat’ (1910) Alexej van Jawlensky
8. MS visitors
9. SOT (English) Mary Anne Stevens, senior curator, Royal Academy: “The history is that Mr Merzbacher whose collections this is, inherited through his wife a small group of very high quality paintings, some six. All six of them are shown in the exhibition here and they include a Picasso, a Matisse, a Renoir, a Van Gogh, an early Cezanne, a Jawlensky. This came from his wife’s grandfather who had put the collection together, small but choice, in the 1920’s. That provided a steer and an impulse to collect for Mr Merzbacher. On top of that there was his own real passion for art at the beginning of the 20th Century and art that rather than being cerebral was really instilled, enhanced by colour.”
10.Pan of paintings
11.’Sunny Lawn in a Public Park’ (1888) by Vincent Van Gogh
12.’Still life – skull and candlestick’ (1866 -67) by Paul Cezanne
13.’ Val de Falaise (Giverny): Winter’ (1885) by Claude Monet
14. SOT (English) Mary Anne Stevens, senior curator, Royal Academy: “What the collection explores is the transformation that takes place in the theory of colour around about 1900 and the way that that gets taken up by different types of artists, different groups of artists. On the one hand you have the French Fauve who are really looking at colour as a way of moving towards non naturalist paintings, decorative paintings, Matisse, Derain and people like that. On the other hand you have your German expressionist who are using colour, really as a tool, as a vehicle to express profound emotions, dramatic mental conditions and so on. So it is those two threads that really act as the basis for this collection.”
15′ Mother and Child’ (Dog under the table) (1920) Fernand Leger
16. Portrait of a Young Woman ( (1901) Pierre-Auguste Renoir
MASTERS OF COLOUR SEE THE LIGHT
Art fans in London are to get a glimpse of one of the world’s greatest modern art collections in private hands.
Eighty stunning masterpieces from the legendary Merzbacher Collection have been assembled for the prestigious summer show at the Royal Academy.
This is the only opportunity in Europe for the public to view these works.
The art gems come from the collection of the Swiss-based couple, Werner and Gabrielle Merzbacher, who have built up an unmatched, hidden treasure trove of paintings and sculptures by the finest exponents of Impressionism, Fauvism, German Expressionism and the Russian Avant-garde.
The collection explores in a variety of ways the great movements in western art of the late 19th and 20th centuries.
Now, with works by Matisse, Picasso, Van Gogh, Kandinsky, Chagall, Monet and Renoir, the public are getting a rare opportunity to enjoy the underlying unity of the collection and the moving and abstract properties of colour.
The Merzbacher Collection is based on the small but remarkable group of works left to Gabrielle by her grandfather Auguste Mayer, a self-educated German-Jewish merchant who was interested in the new ideas that gripped European thinking in the early 20th century and the art it inspired.
He provided the base and the impetus for the avid collecting that his granddaughter and her husband Werner Merzbacher conducted in the1960’s and 1970’s.
Their buying sprees were driven by a passion for bold colour and powerful, dynamic forms.
Their lending, like their acquiring, has been largely anonymous. Hence the Merzbacher Collection, though one of the finest of its kind, has intentionally remained one of the most private of private collections.
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