The Frick Pittsburgh launches exhibit ‘French Moderns’
The Frick Pittsburgh’s exhibition, “French Moderns: Matisse/ Renoir / Degas,” explores a century’s worth of avant-garde movements that turned radical artists into longtime legends and opens Saturday.
Encompassing realism, impressionism, post-impressionism, symbolism, Fauvism, cubism and surrealism, “French Moderns” highlights art that defined modernism in the 19th and 20th centuries. The exhibit features paintings, drawings and sculptures created by the era’s leading artists born in France, as well as those who studied and exhibited there, including Paul Cézanne, Marc Chagall, Edgar Degas, Henri Matisse, Pierre-Auguste Renoir and more.
Alongside the exhibition, the Frick will host dozens of programs, including film screenings, workshops, lectures and collaborative events with Wilkinsburg-based bakery BB&Bur and local artist Ron Donoughe.
“French Moderns” is organized by Lisa Small, Senior Curator of European Art, and Richard Aste, former Curator of European Art at the Brooklyn Museum.
For information, call 412-371-0600 or go online to thefrickpittsburgh.org.