Peachy the Magazine October November 2014 | Page 14

Cézanne and the Modern

at the High Museum

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Visitors to Atlanta’s High Museum this
fall and winter won’t want to miss an
outstanding exhibit of Impressionist,
Post-Impressionist and modern art
on display through mid-January. The
show, entitled “Cézanne and the
Modern: Masterpieces of European
Art,” features pieces from collector
Henry Pearlman. More than 50 masterworks from Manet, Pissarro, Degas,
Gauguin, van Gogh, Lipchitz, Soutine
and Modigliani “offer a distinctive
and extraordinary visual survey of
the groundbreaking beginnings to the
great flowering of European modernism as seen through the eyes of an
exceptional collector.” The centerpiece
of the exhibition is a group of 24 oils
and watercolors by Paul Cézanne, “an
artist whose work bridged the two
worlds of the Impressionists and modernists, and continues to be celebrated
and admired for its innovation, rigor
and beauty.”

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According to the High Museum,
“Cézanne and the Modern showcases
the extraordinary vision of Henry
Pearlman (1895–1974), a modest
American entrepreneur who amassed
an astonishing collection of modern
art from the late 19th and early 20th
centuries, including perhaps the greatest collection of watercolors by Cézanne
outside of France.” The Henry and Rose
Pearlman Collection has resided at
Princeton University Art Museum since
1976, and this exhibition marks the first
international tour of the entire collection
since Pearlman’s death in 1974.
The exhibition runs from October 25 to
January 11. n

For more information about
the exhibit, visit the
High Museum of Art website.