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The Norton Simon Museum presents installations from and in the honor of the loan of Ingres's Comtesse d'Haussonville from the Frick Collection in New York.
The Norton Simon Museum presents a special installation of Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres's stunning portrait of Comtesse d'Haussonville, 1845, on loan from The Frick Collection in New York. This portrait of the comtesse is the first loan from the Frick in an art exchange program between the venerable New York institution and the Norton Simon foundations. This captivating, large-scale work has never before traveled to California. Two related preparatory drawings from the Frick's collections accompany the work. In conjunction with this installation the musuem has curated Gaze: Portraiture after Ingres, October 30 2009 through April 5, 2010 from the collection of the Norton Simon. This exhibition of close to 150 paintings, sculpture and photographs from the Norton Simon collections traces artistic engagements with portraiture following Ingres's influence in the early to mid-19th century through to the present day, and examines why this genre, so seemingly laden with restrictions and expectations, appealed to some of the greatest avant-garde painters in the history of art. The exhibition includes such artists as Gustave Courbet, Edgar Degas, Vincent van Gogh, Amedeo Modigliani, Pablo Picasso, Marcel Duchamp and Andy Warhol, among many others. Listen to exhibition curator Leah Lehmbeck discuss the evolution of portraiture—from its peak of classical perfection at the time of Ingres, to its focus on the modern world at the hands of the Impressionists, to its radical reworking by 20th-century masters. For more information about the Norton Simon Museum in Pasadena visit: http://www.nortonsimon.org/
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