Art lovers in Houston have the opportunity to view dozens of masterpieces by famed artists Henri Matisse, Pablo Picasso, and Paul Klee from now until September 13 at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. The pieces were curated for the “Picasso-Klee-Matisse: Masterpieces from the Museum Berggruen” exhibit and were selected from collector and art dealer Heinz Berggruen’s private collection.
The exhibition is housed in the Beck Building and includes still lifes, landscapes, portraits, and human figures from Matisse, Picasso, and Klee. Pieces range from paintings and sculptures to cut-out collages and drawings. Informational placards and video footage of the artists at work are also included in the immersive display. In addition to Berggruen’s artworks, the MFAH has contributed its own pieces by these respective artists for a more robust experience.
To see “Picasso-Klee-Matisse: Masterpieces from the Museum Berggruen” for yourself, click here to purchase tickets to the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston (the exhibit is included in the cost of entry). Tickets for adults 19 years of age and older are $24 each, senior tickets for those 65+ are $20, and tickets for kids between the ages of 13 and 18 are $20. Children who are 12 years of age and younger are admitted for free.
Free admission is granted to all visitors every Thursday, but a fee must be paid to visit this specific collection as it’s considered a special exhibition. For additional ways to visit the museum without having to pay, this link outlines various programs and exceptions. The MFAH is closed on Tuesdays but is open on the following days at the following times:
- Sunday: 12:30 p.m. to 6 p.m.
- Monday and Wednesday: 11 a.m. to 5 p.m.
- Thursday and Friday: 11 a.m. to 9 p.m.
- Saturday: 11 a.m. to 6 p.m.
Close to 100 pieces will be on display
The “Picasso-Klee-Matisse: Masterpieces from the Museum Berggruen” exhibit, which officially opened on May 20, will feature over 95 artworks from Heinz Berggruen’s collection. Those pieces are on loan to the MFAH from Berlin’s Museum Berggruen. According to the official description for the exhibit, it highlights “the careers of Pablo Picasso and Paul Klee, as well as Henri Matisse’s signature cut-outs, Alberto Giacometti’s haunting sculptures, and the works of Georges Braque and Paul Cezanne.”
Picasso, a Spanish artist, is well-known for helping found the Cubist movement, an art form centered around constructed sculptures. The exhibit features a range of his pieces—per its official booklet, “Nearly seventy years separate one of the earliest works in this exhibition, ‘Portrait of Sabartés’ (1904), painted during the Blue Period (1901–4), and ‘Seated Nude with Raised Arms’ (1972), drawn nine months before Picasso’s death.”
Matisse, a visual artist from France, received extensive praise for the colorful artworks he produced during his lifetime. Several of his lithographs (a type of drawing created directly onto a flat surface, such as limestone) are on display in the exhibition.
Rounding out the primary trio is Klee, a Swiss-German artist. The official booklet states, “Klee’s art is steeped in personal, mysterious, and metaphysical symbolism, with subjects ranging from humorous head studies and simple stick figures to landscapes and cityscapes, from ethereal creatures and dreamlike worlds to explorations of musical structures, color relationships, and abstract grid forms.”
As for Giacometti, he worked as a sculptor, printmaker, draftsman, and artist and contributed to both the Cubism and Surrealism movements. Braque was a painter who first created Fauvism-style pieces before transitioning into Cubism alongside his colleague, Picasso. Cezanne was also a painter, though his roots were in Impressionism before he, too, made the transition into Cubism.
This article first appeared on Good Info News Wire and is republished here under a Creative Commons license.
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