Art Of The Day Weekly
#354 - from 10 July 2014 to 10 September 2014
Paul Cézanne, La Montagne Sainte-Victoire, ca. 1902 (oil on canvas, 102,5 x 86 cm)
Pearlman's Cézannes
AIX-EN-PROVENCE – We all know the wonderful American collections of French art, such as Barnes, Kress, Getty or Norton Simon. After discovering the Hays collection at the Orsay museum last year, here we have another rediscovery, the works collected by Henry Pearlman (1895-1974), the founder of the Eastern Cold Storage Company. He had a true passion for Cézanne and owned 33 works by the artist, but not only. He also had works by Soutine –one of is first purchases-, Van Gogh –among them La diligence à Tarascon-, Gauguin and Toulouse-Lautrec. Since 1976 they have been kept at Princeton and are now partially exhibited at the musée Granet. Following the exhibitions on the Planque and Burda collections, the institution wishes to specialise in presenting major private collections.
• Chefs-d’œuvre de la collection Pearlman. Cézanne et la modernité at the Granet museum, from 12 July to 5 October 2014.