French Moderns: Monet to Matisse
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From the Brooklyn Museum’s renowned European art collection, French Moderns: Monet to Matisse showcases approximately 60 works of art considered to be modernist masterpieces. Focusing on France as the artistic center of international modernism from the mid-nineteenth to mid-twentieth centuries, the paintings, drawings, and sculptures on display range widely in scale, subject matter, and style. Impressionism, symbolism, fauvism, cubism, and surrealism are all explored in the work of Paul Cézanne, Marc Chagall, Edgar Degas, Henri Matisse, Claude Monet, Pierre-Auguste Renoir and many others.
French Moderns: Monet to Matisse is organized by the Brooklyn Museum. The Flowerree Foundation, the William G. Gilmore Foundation, The Laura and Roger Meier Family, the McGraw Family Foundation, The James F. and Marion L. Miller Foundation, and Exhibition Series Sponsors provide lead support.