This exhibition features work by four renowned contemporary artists and selected pieces created by the Old Masters, chosen specifically to compare and contrast the historical with the modern.
Drawing Connections: Baselitz, Kelly, Penone, Rockburne, and the Old Masters
Through January 6, 2008
The Morgan Library & Museum
New York, New York
(212) 685-0008
An illustrated catalogue is available.
This exhibition features work by four renowned contemporary artists and selected pieces created by the Old Masters, chosen specifically to compare and contrast the historical with the modern. Georg Baselitz, Ellsworth Kelly, Giuseppe Penone, and Dorothea Rockburne have chosen Old Master drawings to present next to their own work to demonstrate not only what contemporary art owes to the art of the past but also how our interpretations of the earlier art is indebted to contemporary practices.
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The Virgin Seated With Yard Winder, and the Infant Christ Embracing the Infant St. John
by Parmigianino, early 1520s, red chalk on paper, 8¼ x 6. Collection The Morgan Library & Museum, New York, New York. |
Divided Hero
by Georg Baselitz, 1966–1967, charcoal and wash on paper, 24 x 17. Collection David Nolan and Carol Eckman. |
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Study of a Sleeping Lion
by Peter Paul Rubens, ca. 1614–1615, black and white chalk on light gray paper, 9¾ x 16½. Collection The Morgan Library & Museum, New York, New York. |
Banana Leaf
by Ellsworth Kelly, 1992, graphite on paper, 20 x 30¼. Private collection. |
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Marsyas Bound to a Tree
José De Ribera, ca. 1630s, red chalk on paper, 9 15/16 x 7 9/16. Collection The Morgan Library & Museum, New York, New York. |
I Feel the Respiration of the Forest (Study for “Maritime Alps–It Will Continue to Grow Except at That Point”)
by Giuseppe Penone, 1968, black and blue ink on paper, 19 11/16 x 13¾. Collection the artist. |