PITTSBURGH, PA.- The Frick Pittsburgh in Point Breeze announces that it will present Van Gogh, Monet, Degas: The Mellon Collection of French Art from the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, an exhibition featuring more than 70 masterpieces collected by Pittsburgh-born collector and philanthropist, Paul Mellon (1907–1999), beginning in spring 2018. The exhibition will be on view at The Frick Art Museum from March 17 through July 8, 2018, and will be complemented by a range of public programs.

The Frick will be the first of a select group of museums to present this touring exhibition, which includes three works by Vincent Van Gogh (1853–1890): The Laundry Boat on the Seine at Asnières (1887); Daisies, Arles (1888); and The Wheat Field behind St. Paul’s Hospital, St. Rémy (1889). Claude Monet (1840–1926) is represented by four works in the show, including a large, late work capturing the dazzling irises in his garden at Giverny, and 10 works by Degas (1834–1917) are featured—including the artist’s most famous sculpture, The Little Dancer.

Covering more than 150 years of French art, the exhibition includes a beautiful and intimate group of Impressionist paintings by Édouard Manet (1882–1883), Pierre August Renoir (1841–1919), Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec (1864–1901), Alfred Sisley (1839¬–1899), and Camille Pissarro (1830–1903), as well as iconic works by Romantic masters Théodore Géricault (1791–1824) and Eugène Delacroix (1798–1863) and the Post-Impressionist and modernist work of Henri Matisse (1869–1954), Pablo Picasso (1881–1973) and Pierre Bonnard (1867–1947).

Frick Executive Director Robin Nicholson says, “We are delighted to have the rare opportunity to present this extraordinary collection of French art to Pittsburgh at The Frick Art Museum—not far from Paul Mellon’s birthplace. In addition to its core of stunning Impressionist paintings, Van Gogh, Monet, Degas will dazzle audiences with masterpieces from every important school of French art from Romanticism through the School of Paris.” Nicholson continues, “A number of works included in the exhibition were only recently given to the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts and have not been seen publicly for a generation.”

In addition to the aforementioned artists, nearly all of the great names associated with French art of the 19th-and early-20th-century are represented in this exhibition, including Paul Cézanne (1939–1906), Gustave Courbet (1819–1877), Paul Gauguin (1848–1903), Berthe Morisot (1841–1895), and Georges Seurat (1859–1891), among many others.