Art - Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian

Exhibition projects
Throughout 2008, the Museum worked on the preparation of the following exhibitions,
to be presented in coming years.
“Art Deco”
A broad selection of art deco pieces, representing the new taste rooted in the 1910s
that was so warmly received at the 1925 Paris Universal Exposition.
“Henri Fantin-Latour (1836-1904)”
The first presentation in Portugal of this French painter from the second half of the 19th century,
represented at the Calouste Gulbenkian Museum through four works.
The exhibition is the result of the collaboration between the Calouste Gulbenkian Museum
and the Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum (Madrid), where it will be presented later.
“The Silence of Matter. Still Life in Europe, 16-20th Centuries”
An anthology of four centuries of a theme that became autonomous in the late 16th century and
was recurrent in European painting. Rembrandt, Goya, Cézanne and Picasso will be some of the
artists represented in the exhibition.
Participation in temporary exhibitions
Maintaining its customary policy of cultural exchanges, in 2008 the Calouste Gulbenkian Museum
loaned works from its collection to the following exhibitions:
› “Marie-Antoinette”, at the Galleries of the Grand Palais, Paris, Armchair, by Jacob (Inv. No. 38)
(15 March to 30 June).
› “Thomas Hope. Regency Designer”, at the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, Statue of Djedhor,
Egyptian antiquity (Inv. No. 403), Head of a Satyr, 2nd-century Roman sculpture (Inv. No. 681),
Vitelius, 18th-century bust (Inv. No. 683) (22 March to 22 June).
› “Venice. From Canaletto and Turner to Monet”, at the Beyeler Foundation, Basle, The Departure
of the Bucintoro, painting by Francesco Guardi (Inv. No. 392), and Santa Maria della Salute Church seen
from Giudecca, a water colour by John Singer Sargent (Inv. No. 75) (28 September to 25 January 2009).
› “Weltliteratur, Madrid, Paris, Berlin, Saint Petersburg, the World!”, at the Calouste Gulbenkian
Foundation, Lisbon, The Boy with Cherries, by Édouard Manet (Inv. No. 395) and The Reading,
by Henri Fantin-Latour (Inv. No. 257) (30 September to 4 January 2009).
› “Antoon van Dyck. Portraits”, at the Jacquemart-André Museum, Paris, Portrait of a Man
(Inv. No. 113) (8 October to 25 January 2009).
› “The Master of Flémalle and Rogier van der Weyden”, at the Städel Museum, Frankfurt,
Bust of St. Joseph (Inv. No. 79B) (21 November to 1 March 2009).
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