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Friday, October 4, 2024 |
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2006 - The Year in Review - October |
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Diego Velazquez, The Toilet of Venus (The Rokeby Venus), 1647-51, © The National Gallery, London.
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OCTOBER John Constable's (17761837) seminal six-foot landscapesamong the best-known and beloved images in British artare reunited with their groundbreaking full-size sketches for the first time since the artist's death in Constable's Great Landscapes: The Six-Foot Paintings, at the National Gallery of Art in Washington. Galeries Nationales du Grand Palais present Public Portraits, Private Portraits 1770 1830. Musée Maillol presents Marilyn, La Dernière Séance. The National Portrait Gallery in London presents David Hockney: Portraits. Picasso And American Art opens at the Whitney. Cézanne in Britain opened at The National Gallery in London. Francis Upritchard won the 2006 Walters Prize. The Centre Pompidou/ Musée National d'Art Moderne devoted a major exhibition to the work of Yves Klein. The National Gallery of Canada Presents Edwin Holgate. Tate Britain presents Holbein in England. The Denver Art Museum opened the Frederic C. Hamilton Building designed by Daniel Libeskind. Sargent/Sorolla, an exhibition jointly organized by the Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum, Fundación Caja Madrid and the Ministry of Culture, opened. The Centre Pompidou presents the exhibit Robert Rauschenberg: Combines. The Columbus Museum of Art presented Edgar Degas: The Last Landscapes. Echoes of the Ancient World: Ancient Egyptian, Greek and Roman Art from the Permanent Collection opened at the New Orleans Museum of Art. The 27th Bienal de São Paulo opened. Masterworks of Indian Painting opened at MFA Boston. The Phillips Collection opened The Société Anonyme: Modernism for America. The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) opened Alexander Girard: Vibrant Modern. The Phillips Collection presented El Lissitzky: Futurist Portfolios. Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen K20 presented Francis Bacon - The Violence of the Real. The Cleveland Museum of Art presented the landmark exhibition Barcelona & Modernity: Picasso, Gaudí, Miró, Dalí. The National Gallery in London presented Velázquez. The Yale Center for British Art presented Canaletto. Steve Wynn damaged Picasso painting with his elbow - Pablo Picassos "Le Reve". Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt presented Picasso and the Theater. The Dallas Museum of Art opened Van Gogh's Sheaves of Wheat. The Philadelphia Museum of Art announced its selection of Frank O. Gehry as architect for a 10-year master plan to dramatically expand the Museum. The Mauritshuis opened the exhibition Rubens & Brueghel. The Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna, opened Bellini, Giorgione, Titian and the Renaissance of Venetian Painting. Pontus Hulten, the former head of the Moderna Museet in Stockholm, 82, died.
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