Temporary Exhibition
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Avant-garde drawings [1910-1945]
An essential device in artistic training and painters’ and sculptors’ creative processes, in the twentieth century drawing came to be viewed as a form of artistic expression in its own right, independent of academic practices or preparatory sketches. Artists of various disciplines, then ...
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Masks. Metamorphosis of Modern Identity
This exhibition reflects on the mask as a means of transforming how the human figure is represented in modern art. Originally having a traditional festive use associated with the carnival and fancy dress, which continued to be predominant in commedia dell’arte characters, masks began to be ass...
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Toulouse-Lautrec and the circus
In 1899, during a short period of convalescence in a sanatorium in Neuilly, on the outskirts of Paris, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec (1864−1901), the great portraitist of fin-de-siècle Parisian bohemia, produced a series of 39 drawings on one of his favourite themes: circus performances lik...