‘Modern Masters’
Since "Robert Mapplethorpe and the Classical Tradition" closed Feb. 18, things have been quiet at the Guggenheim Hermitage Museum.
Rumors flew that the museum inside The Venetian was in trouble. But the lull came down to nothing more than a problem getting paintings from the Hermitage in Russia to the United States for the "Modern Masters" exhibit opening today, says Guggenheim Hermitage managing director Elizabeth Herridge.
"The Hermitage could not export images for this show," Herridge says. "We had to regroup and make it an all-Guggenheim show." Because of that "it took months to put together."
Thirty-seven works by 23 artists are on display in the exhibit that runs through April 27.
Art movements including impressionism, post-impressionism, cubism, expressionism and purism are represented.
Spanning the 1870s through the 1930s, the "Modern Masters from the Guggenheim Collection" includes some of the bigger names of that era — Pablo Picasso, Vincent Van Gogh, Claude Monet, Paul Cezanne and Edouard Manet — and some of the lesser-known as well — Max Beckmann, Emil Nolde, Albert Gleizes, Robert Delaunay, Alexej Jawlensky, Kazimir Malevich and Franz Marc.
"This is an important section of the Guggenheim collection," Herridge says. "Solomon Guggenheim (the museum’s founder) would have started to collect then."
The show is divided into portraiture, landscape, still life and genre painting. They are four of the five categories of acceptable subject matter established by the French Royal Academy of Painting and Sculpture, says Herridge. (The other is history painting.)
"There are things we have not had here before that I think are very, very significant," Herridge says.
Covering a time of change in the art of painting, the exhibit shows "the period of breaking away from the classical form," Herridge says. "That leads to where we are now. These paintings are the change agents."
The exhibit also marks a reduction in ticket prices — adults are admitted for $15; seniors, Nevada residents and students get in for $12; and children 12 and younger are admitted free. The audio guide costs $5.
what: "Modern Masters from the Guggenheim Collection" when: 9:30 a.m.-7:30 p.m. daily where: Guggenheim Hermitage Museum at The Venetian, 3355 Las Vegas Blvd. South tickets: $12-$15 (414-2440) ON DISPLAY The "Modern Masters from the Guggenheim Collection" exhibit is made up of these works: "The Fourteenth of July" (1901), "Pitcher and Bowl of Fruit" (1931) and "Still Life: Fruit Dish and Pitcher" (1937), by Pablo Picasso; "Still Life: Plate of Peaches" (1879-1880), "The Neighborhood of Jas de Bouffan" (1885-87) and "Man with Crossed Arms" (ca. 1899), by Paul Cézanne; "Before the Mirror" (1876) and "Woman in Evening Dress" (1877-1880), by Edouard Manet; "Mountains at Saint-Rémy" (1889), by Vincent Van Gogh; "The Palazzo Ducale, Seen from San Giorgio Maggiore" (1908), by Claude Monet; "The Soldier Drinks" (1911-1912), by Marc Chagall; "Piano and Mandola" (1909-1910), "Violin and Palette" (1909) and "Teapot on Yellow Ground" (1955), by Georges Braque; "Portrait (Head in a Landscape)" (1912-1913) and "Portrait of an Army Doctor" (1914-1915), by Albert Gleizes; "Houses in Paris" (1911), "Still Life with Cherries" (1916) and "Fruit Dish on a Check Tablecloth" (1917), by Juan Gris; "The Smokers" (1911-1912), "Woman Holding a Vase" (1927) and "Builders with Rope" (1950), by Fernand Léger; "Summer, Dune in Zeeland" (ca. 1910) and "Still Life with Gingerpot II" (1911-1912), by Piet Mondrian; "Dining Room on the Garden" (1934-1935), by Pierre Bonnard; "Self-Portrait" (1928-1931), by Arshile Gorky; "Eiffel Tower with Trees" (1910), by Robert Delaunay; "Helene with Colored Turban" (1910), by Alexej Jawlensky; "Pastorale" (1911), by Vasily Kandinsky; "Flower Bed" (1913), by Paul Klee; "Paris Society" (1931), by Max Beckmann; "Morning in the Village after Snowstorm" (1912), by Kazimir Malevich; "The Unfortunate Land of Tyrol" (1913), by Franz Marc; "Man in a Tower" (1924), by André Masson; "Prades, the Village" (1917), by Joan Miró; "Portrait of a Student (L’Etudiant)" (ca. 1918-1919), by Amedeo Modigliani; and "Young Horses" (1916), by Emil Nolde.
