Date/Time
Date - December 29, 2018
1:30 pm until 3:30 pm
Location
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
1000 Fifth Avenue
New York, NY, 10028
Eugène Delacroix (French, 1798– 1863). Self-Portrait with Green Vest, ca. 1837. Oil on canvas, 25 9/16 x 21 7/16 in. (65 x 54.5 cm). Musée du Louvre, Paris. © RMN– Grand Palais (Musée du Louvre) / Michel Urtado. Image (c) The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Join me for a visit to The Metropolitan Museum of Art Fifth Avenue to see two exhibitions: Delacroix and Jewelry: The Body Transformed – from there we can proceed to other exhibitions. Before our visit, members are invited to join me for brunch, details will be shared with those attending.
Kindly RSVP to Laura by Thursday, December 28.
Admission:
$25 – Adult
$17 – Senior (65 +)
Purchase admission tickets online: metmuseum.org.
DELACROIX
Through January 6, 2019
Delacroix exhibition Gallery View. Image (c) Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
From the website: metmuseum.org
French painter Eugène Delacroix (1798–1863) was one of the greatest creative figures of the nineteenth century. Coming of age after the fall of Napoleon, he reconnected the present to the past on his own terms. Delacroix produced an extraordinarily vibrant body of work, setting into motion a cascade of innovations that changed the course of art. This exhibition is the first comprehensive retrospective devoted to this amazing artist ever held in North America.
The exhibition, a joint project with the Musée du Louvre, illuminates Delacroix’s restless imagination through more than 150 paintings, drawings, prints, and manuscripts—many never before seen in the United States. It unfolds chronologically, encompassing the rich variety of themes that preoccupied the artist during his more than four decades of activity, including literature, history, religion, animals, and nature. Through rarely seen graphic art displayed alongside such iconic paintings as Greece on the Ruins of Missolonghi (1826), The Battle of Nancy (1831), Women of Algiers in Their Apartment (1834), and Medea about to Kill Her Children (1838), this exhibition explores an artist whose protean genius set the bar for virtually all other French painters.
Eugène Delacroix, (French, 1798–1863). The Combat of the Giaour and Hassan, 1826. Oil on canvas. 23 1/2 × 28 7/8 in. (59.6 × 73.4 cm). The Art Institute of Chicago, Gift of Bertha Palmer Thorne, Rose Movius Palmer, Mr. and Mrs. Arthur M. Wood, and Mr. and Mrs. Gordon Palmer (1962.966). Photo credit: The Art Institute of Chicago / Art Resource, NY. Image (c) The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
JEWELRY: THE BODY TRANSFORMED
November 12, 2018 – February 24, 2019
Necklace René-Jules Lalique (French, Aÿ 1860–1945 Paris) ca. 1897–99 Gold, enamel, opals, amethysts Overall diam. 9 1/2 in. (24.1 cm); 9 large pendants: 2 3/4 x 2 1/4 in. (7 x 5.7 cm); 9 small pendants: 13/8×11/4in.(3.5×3.2cm) The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gift of Lillian Nassau, 1985 (1985.114) Image (c) The Metropolitan Museum of Art
From the website: metmuseum.org
What is jewelry? Why do we wear it? What meanings does it carry? Traversing time and space, this exhibition explores how jewelry acts upon and activates the body it adorns. This global conversation about one of the most personal and universal of art forms brings together some 230 objects drawn almost exclusively from The Met collection. A dazzling array of headdresses and ear ornaments, brooches and belts, necklaces and rings are shown along with sculptures, paintings, prints, and photographs that enrich and amplify the many stories of transformation that jewelry tells.
Brooch with Carved Emeralds and Sapphires by Cartier Cartier (French, founded Paris, 1847) Emerald: 17th century; setting: ca. 1920 Made in United States, New York Platinum, set with emeralds and sapphires H.2in.(5cm);W.21/4in.(5.5cm) The Metropolitan Museum of art, Gift of Her Highness Sheikha Amna bint Mohammed Al- Thani, 2015 (2015.54) Image (c) The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1000 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY