Fifty Drawings
Mantegna to Cézanne to Picasso
March 2008
Cover Image: Andrea Mantegna, Bacchanal with a Wine Vat, Pen and ink wash
Southern Netherlands Master (possibly Tournai)
The Flight into Egypt, c. 1465
Large miniature on a leaf of illuminated manuscript Book of Hours (on vellum)
Paolo Farinati (Verona 1524 - 1606 Verona)
The Triumph of Constantine the Great, c. 1556-1558
Pen, brown ink and black chalk
Raffaello Motto called Raffaellino da Reggio (Reggio Emilia 1550 - 1578 Rome)
Madonna and Child Appearing to Saints John the Baptist and Francis, c. 1575
Pen and brown ink with wash over red chalk; squared in black chalk for transfer
Anne-Louis Girodet-Trioson (Montargis 1767 - 1824 Paris)
Tête du Général Desaix, 1801
Pencil drawing
Jean-Louis Desprez (Auxerre 1743 - 1804 Stockholm)
Design for a Dome-Shaped Room
Pen and brown ink with wash, squared in graphite for transfer
Honoré Daumier (Marseille 1808 - 1879 Valmondois)
L'Accusation (Le Réquisitoire)
Pen and ink wash
Pierre-Auguste Renoir (Limoges 1841 - 1919 Cognes-sur-Mer)
Nu debout, aprés le Bain, c. 1900-1910
Pencil drawing
Fernand Léger (Argentan 1881 - 1955 Gif-sur-Yvette)
Le Village, 1913
Gouache
Jacques Villon (Damville 1875 - 1963 Puteaux)
Monsieur D(uchamp) lisant, 1913
Pencil on paper
This exhibition explored the history of drawings, through some of Western Art’s iconic nineteenth and twentieth-century artists as well as earlier examples from the sixteenth century. Included are important works by Mantegna, Muller, Ingres, Cézanne, Seurat, Léger, Kirchner, and Schmidt-Rottluff.
