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The Columbia Museum of Art has debuted the major exhibition  Van Gogh and His Inspirations , on view now through Sunday, January 12, 2020 . Organized by the CMA and presented by the Blanchard Family,  Van Gogh and His Inspirations  is an original exhibition that brings the work of one of the most beloved artists in the world to Columbia, South Carolina, alongside a variety of handpicked paintings and drawings that shaped his vision. “Van Gogh and His Inspirations represents an exhilarating high-water mark for exhibitions at the Columbia Museum of Art,” says Executive Director Della Watkins. “This show is the commitment of years of work to secure loans from museums and private collections; plan complicated logistical details; establish national, statewide, and local partners in arts, culture, tourism, marketing, hospitality, and education; and honor audience requests for internationally significant shows in the Midlands. Get ready to immerse yourself in fascinating stories,

ALBERTINA Museum 22 February until 24 May 2020  The Hahnloser Collection came together between 1905 and 1936, initially on the basis of close and friendly exchange between the collecting couple of Arthur and Hedy Hahnloser-Bühler and artist-friends including Pierre Bonnard, Ferdinand Hodler, Henri Matisse, and Félix Vallotton. Later on, the collection also came to include works by their predecessors including Cézanne, Renoir, Toulouse-Lautrec, Van Gogh, and others. The ALBERTINA Museum’s ca. 120-work exhibition presents an overview of this internationally unique collection of modern art, with works on loan from the fine art museums Kunstmuseum Bern and Kunst Museum Winterthur additionally serving to illuminate this collection’s exemplary cultural policy aspect. Henri Manguin | Les Enfants Hans et Lisa Hahnloser , 1910 | Dauerleihgabe an Hahnloser/Jaeggli Stiftung, Villa Flora, Winterthur Foto: Reto Pedrini, Zürich  Félix Vallotton Le chapeau violet, 1907 Dauerleihgabe a

The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston October 20, 2019–January 12, 2020 Monet to Picasso: A Very Private Collection  features paintings by the pivotal artists who sparked the major art movements of the late-19th through mid-20th century, including Mary Cassatt, Paul Cézanne, Vincent van Gogh, Henri Matisse, Claude Monet, and Pablo Picasso. Claude Monet, Valley of the Creuse, Afternoon Sunlight (Vallée de la Creuse, soleil d’après-midi), 1889, oil on canvas, private collection.   Paul Cézanne, The Turning Road (La route tournante), c. 1877, oil on canvas, private collection. Paul Cézanne, The Promenade (La promenade) , 1866, oil on canvas, private collection. Pablo Picasso, Woman Seated in an Armchair (Femme assise dans un fauteuil) , 1941, oil on canvas, private collection. © Estate of Pablo Picasso / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston  October 20, 2019–January 12, 2020 . • Berthe Morisot: Impressionist Original  highlights Berthe Morisot’s approach to portraiture, her focus on the life of women in 19th-century Paris, and her role as one of the founding members of the Impressionist group. Berthe Morisot, At the Ball (Au bal), 1876, oil on canvas, Musée Marmottan Monet, Paris, gift of Victorine Donop de Monchy. Berthe Morisot,  Woman with a Fan (Femme à l’éventail) , 1876, oil on canvas, private collection   Berthe Morisot, Young Woman (Jeune femme), 1871, oil on canvas, the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Museum purchase funded by the Audrey Jones Beck Accessions 

xx Hindman ’s American and European Art sale was conducted on October 17 at 10am CST at the Chicago sale room (1338 W. Lake St.). Notable highlights include Henry Moret, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Camille Pissarro, Kees Van Dongen, Jean Dufy, Jasper Francis Cropsey, Childe Hassam, Fern Isabel Coppedge and Thomas Hart Benton. The catalog for the October 17 auction is available  here .  Also for sale was a wonderful example of Thomas Hart Benton’s commissioned work, Whiskey Barrels (or Whiskey Barrels Going into the Rackhouse to Age) at an estimated $600,000 - $800,000. The artist’s work has shown strong results at Hindman in the past, his 1967 Discussion selling for $1,052,500 at Leslie Hindman Auctioneers' evening sale on May 20, 2015. This painting Whiskey Going into the Rackhouse to Age   or  Whiskey Barrels , produced by Thomas Hart Benton in 1945, dates from the period of his greatest fame and prosperity, when his work was energetically promoted by the most innova

The Albertina houses one of Europe’s most important compilations of Modernist art in the form of the Batliner Collection. Its permanent display starts off with such artists of Impressionism and Post-Impressionism as Degas, Cézanne, Toulouse-Lautrec, and Gauguin. Further highlights include examples of German Expressionism, with the groups of Brücke and Der Blaue Reiter, (including paintings by Kirchner, Kandinsky, and Nolde) and the art of New Objectivity, with works by Wacker, Sedlacek, and Hofer. An in-depth focus on Austrian art comprises works by Kokoschka and paintings by Egger-Lienz. The great diversity of the Russian avant-garde is represented by paintings by Goncharova, Malevich, and Chagall. The presentation is topped off by numerous chefs-d’oeuvre by Picasso, ranging from his early Cubist pictures and works from his mature period of the 1940s to superb prints that have not yet been exhibited and paintings from his experimental late period. Beginning at the turn o