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November 30, 2007

 

CORNELL MUSEUM AT ROLLINS COLLEGE

FEATURE MASTERWORKS ON PAPER

BY PICASSO, REMBRANDT and CÉZANNE  

 

 

WINTER PARK, FL - Organized by CFAM director Luanne McKinnon, the Cornell Fine Arts Museum’s ambitious exhibition Corps Exquis (pronounced kor ekskee) opens January 19th simultaneous to the CFAM sculpture exhibition Nevelson by Night. 

Corps Exquis will display renderings of the male and female form from the Baroque to the Post-modern era. A wide-ranging selection of drawings, etchings, lithographs, mixed and new media of the “exquisite body” - a central theme in the visual arts - rendered by Pablo Picasso, Kiki Smith, Paul Cézanne, Ida Applebroog, Vanessa Beecroft, Rembrandt van Rijn, and Duncan Grant, among other American and European artists, will be on view in the Myers Family Gallery.

New acquisitions will be featured for the first time at the Cornell including Paul Cézanne’s The Large Bathers, ca. 1896 -97, two Pablo Picasso’s from 1905 and 1955, and, Rembrandt van Rijn’s Woman Bathing her Feet at a Brook, ca. 1658. These rare works of art offer the viewing public an extraordinary opportunity to see a variety of masterworks of the human figure. For example, Paul Cézanne treated the subject of the bather in more than two hundred works over the course of twenty years, and approached this most conventional of figurative themes in a radically unconventional manner. At the insistence of the great Parisian art dealer, Ambroise Vollard, the Cézanne created The Large Bathers, his most elaborate print, after his 1876-77 oil painting of the same composition (collection: Barnes Foundation, Philadelphia; variation in Musée d'art et d'histoire, Geneva).

Gallery hours: Tues. – Sat. 10:00 am to 5:00 pm. Sun. 1:00 to 5:00 pm.  Admission: $5.00 for adults.  FREE to CFAM members, Rollins College faculty, staff, and all students with current ID, and children.  The Cornell Fine Arts Museum is located on the campus of Rollins College near downtown Winter Park. For additional information please call 407-646-2526 or www.rollins.edu/cfam.