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How often do you get the opportunity to get a personal tour through masterworks of art history with the former director of one of the greatest museums in the world? Thanks to Acquavella Galleries and their director Philippe de Montebello, former director of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, now you can. As galleries began reopening in New York, Acquavella Galleries mounted the extraordinary exhibition, Masterworks: From Cézanne to Thiebaud, on view initially in New York (through October 16, 2020) and opening in November 2020 in their new Palm Beach location. In case you missed it in New York and can’t make it to Palm Beach, fortunately for the rest of us, Acquavella Galleries released a tour of the exhibition featuring de Montebello speaking on each of the 25 works in the show. So sit back and soak in de Montebello’s plummy, dulcet tones, as he takes you on a tour-de-force walkthrough of the exhibition and the incredible history of each of the individual works.

Note that you can skip around to individual works using the Chapters icon in the bottom right corner of the video.

From Acquavella Galleries:

Featuring paintings, works on paper, and sculpture, this exhibition traces the path of modernism from its inception in nineteenth century France through postwar and contemporary art, culminating in a selection of paintings completed in the past few years.

On view will be works by Gustave Caillebotte, Paul Cézanne, George Condo, Jean Dubuffet, Jacob El Hanani, Ellsworth Kelly, Damian Loeb, Henri Matisse, Joan Miró, Ben Nicholson, Pablo Picasso, Camille Pissarro, James Rosenquist, Ed Ruscha, David Smith, Wayne Thiebaud, Bradley Walker Tomlin, Joaquín Torres-García, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec and Tom Wesselmann in a variety of mediums. Though the exhibition spans multiple generations and movements, the artists included share a mastery of both space and color.

Video produced by Bower Blue.

Museums

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Studios

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