The Frick Collection - Exhibitions

Apart from the below exhibitions, there always their concerts, lectures and more...

Current and upcoming Exhibitions:

MEMLING’S PORTRAITS
October 12 through December 31, 2005

The Frick Collection is the only museum in the United States to present this touring exhibition of paintings by the important Netherlandish artist Hans Memling
(c. 1440–1494). Organized by the Frick in collaboration with the Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid, and the Groeningemuseum, Bruges, the exhibition provides an overview of Memling’s successful career in portraiture, with a selection of approximately thirty portraits by the master and his school, including portrait-wings from diptychs and triptychs along with self-standing portraits of individual patrons. Additional paintings unique to each venue’s showing have also been chosen to illuminate topics of particular relevance to Memling’s work: the exchange of influences with contemporary portraiture from Italy and Germany (Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza); issues of patronage relating to donor-portraits (Groeningemuseum); and the role of the workshop in artistic production (The Frick Collection). This concentrated study not only illuminates the career of a Renaissance master, but also explores the function of portraiture in the Netherlands during the fifteenth century. Memling’s Portraits made its debut at the Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid, on February 15, 2005 (through May 15), then travels to the Groeningemuseum, Bruges (June 7 through September 4, 2005), before its presentation at The Frick Collection in October 2005, the final venue of the tour.

GOYA’S LAST WORKS
February 22, 2006, through May 14, 2006

Goya’s Last Works will be the first exhibition in the United States to concentrate exclusively on the final phase of this artist’s career. It is the third in a series of critically acclaimed presentations focused on Spanish art at The Frick Collection, following Velázquez in New York Museums (1999) and El Greco: Themes and Variations (2001). Organized by Jonathan Brown, Carroll and Milton Petrie Professor of Fine Arts, New York University and Susan Grace Galassi, Curator at The Frick Collection, the exhibition will be accompanied by a fully illustrated scholarly catalogue published by Yale University Press as well as a series of lectures.

The Frick’s 1824 portrait of a woman identified as María Martínez de Puga is the starting point of this exhibition. The show focuses on the years from 1824 to 1828 which Goya spent in Bordeaux in a community of fellow Spanish exiles seeking refuge from the absolutism of Fernando VII and his vengeful purge of liberals, as well as on the years in Madrid shortly before his departure. Though aged, in poor health, and long deaf, Goya produced a remarkable body of innovative work in his late seventies and early eighties. The aim of Goya’s Last Works is to bring this little-known final phase of his art, and the circumstances in which it was created, to the attention of the American audience.

JEAN-ÉTIENNE LIOTARD (1702-1789):
MASTERPIECES FROM GENEVAN COLLECTIONS
June 13, 2006, through September 17, 2006

The Frick continues to add to its holdings, and the 1997 gift of a painting has inspired a major 2006 exhibition on the artist Jean-Étienne Liotard (1702-1789): Masterpieces from Genevan Collections. This presentation offers the public a singular opportunity to become better acquainted with one of the most original and engaging artists of eighteenth-century Europe, who enjoyed an international reputation in his day, often painting portraits of monarchs and their children in London, Vienna, Parma, and Amsterdam. Indeed, the Frick serves as the only venue for this monographic survey of an artist who is little known even among specialists today, and rarely seen outside of collections in Geneva. Accompanied by a general introductory publication—the first in English—to the encyclopedic holdings of Liotard’s work in Geneva, the exhibition comprises paintings, drawings, and engravings from the Musées d’art et d’histoire, as well as a selection of his pastels from private collections. Its presentation in New York is coordinated by Chief Curator Colin B. Bailey and is made possible, in part, through the generous support of Melvin R. Seiden in honor of Jean A. Bonna and Inez and Yves Oltramare, with additional support from Inez and Yves Oltramare; Pro Helvetia, Arts Council of Switzerland; The Helen Clay Frick Foundation; and the Fellows of The Frick Collection.

CIMABUE AND EARLY ITALIAN DEVOTIONAL PAINTING
Fall 2006

For the first time in America, The Frick Collection will reunite two diminutive, jewel-like panels by the early Italian Renaissance master Cimabue: The Virgin and Child Enthroned from the National Gallery in London and the Frick’s Flagellation of Christ. Technical and stylistic studies reveal that these two paintings once formed part of the same ensemble featuring various scenes from the life of Christ. Discovered in a private collection in Britain in 2000, the National Gallery panel was immediately recognized as a work by Cimabue, an attribution that confirmed the authorship of the Frick panel. The Virgin and Child Enthroned and the Flagellation of Christ are the only known small-scale works by Cimabue, and they survive as a unique testament to this artist’s exploration of narrative devotional painting.

To contextualize the discovery of the Cimabue panels’ kinship, the installation, coordinated by Andrew W. Mellon Fellow Holly Flora, will also feature representative examples of devotional art from early Renaissance Italy. A selection of small-scale altarpieces, manuscripts, and verre églomisé (gilded glass) loaned from New York collections will illustrate the various small-scale media and narrative presentations with which Cimabue and his contemporaries experimented. This Cabinet installation has been generously underwritten by Jon and Barbara Landau. Additional support has been provided by the members of the Frick Council and The Helen Clay Frick Foundation. Cimabue and Early Italian Devotional Painting follows a large exhibition on the artist on view in spring 2005 at the Museo di San Matteo in Pisa, as well as an installation reuniting the Cimabue panels at the National Gallery in London in the fall of 2005.

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