Bøger af Ann Temkin

In 2022, The Museum of Modern Art and the Statens Museum for Kunst will present an ambitious dossier exhibition focusing on Henri Matisse's Red Studio from 1911. The large painting depicts the artist's work environment in Issy-les-Moulineaux, crowded with his own canvases, sculptures, furniture and decorative objects. Matisse's radical decision to saturate the work's surface with red has continued to fascinate generations of scholars and artists. Yet much remains to be explored in terms of the painting's genesis and history. This show presents a unique opportunity to assess Matisse's painting anew. The first gallery of the exhibition will reunite The Red Studio - in MoMA's collection since 1949 - with the works depicted in it (three of them belong to the Statens Museum for Kunst). Ranging from 1898 to 1911, they span the artist's career up to that date and combine both familiar and lesser-known pieces. The second gallery of the exhibition will retrace the painting's complex history, from the artist's studio in the Parisian suburb to its subsequent international travels and reception. We will explore, for example, how The Red Studio was originally conceived for the Muscovite collector Sergei Shchukin; how it was later included in the famous 1913 Armory Show; how it was on display for fifteen years on the walls of a London social club; and its eventual acquisition by MoMA. A rich selection of archival materials such as photographs, catalogues, letters, and press clippings will join artworks by Matisse and others on display.

Delves into various aspects of the artist Henri Rousseau's oeuvre and places the work in a broader social and art-historical context.

Edited by Ann Temkin and Dorthe Aagesen Created in 1911, Henri Matisse’s The Red Studio would go on to become one of the most influential works in the history of modern art. The painting, which has hung in MoMA’s galleries since 1949, depicts the artist’s studio in the Parisian suburb of Issy-les-Moulineaux, filled with his artworks, furniture, and decorative objects. Matisse’s radical decision to blanket most of the work’s surface in red has fascinated generations of scholars and artists, yet much remained to be discovered about the painting’s genesis and history. Published in conjunction with an exhibition that reunites the artworks shown in The Red Studio for the first time since they left Matisse’s workspace, this copiously illustrated volume examines the paintings and sculptures depicted in it, from familiar works such as Le Luxe (II) (1907–08)—one of the three works seen in The Red Studio now in the collection of SMK – National Gallery of Denmark—to lesser-known pieces whose locations have only recently been discovered. A narrative essay by Ann Temkin, The Marie-Josée and Henry Kravis Chief Curator of Painting and Sculpture at The Museum of Modern Art, New York, and Dorthe Aagesen, Chief Curator and Senior Researcher at SMK in Copenhagen, traces the life of The Red Studio, from the initial commissioning of the work through its early history of exhibition and ownership to its arrival at MoMA. With its groundbreaking research and close reading of the work, Matisse: The Red Studio transforms our understanding of this landmark of twentieth-century art.

Det røde atelier, malet af den franske kunstner Henri Matisse i 1911, skulle vise sig at blive et af de mest indflydelsesrige værker i den moderne kunsts historie. Maleriet, som har tilhørt MoMA siden 1949, forestiller kunstnerens atelier i den parisiske forstad Issy-les-Moulineaux, fyldt med hans egne kunstværker, møbler og brugsgenstande. Matisses radikale beslutning om at male det meste af værkets flade over med rødt har fascineret generationer af forskere og kunstnere, men vi har stadig meget at lære om maleriets tilblivelse og historie. Denne rigt illustrerede bog er udgivet i forbindelse med udstillingen Matisse: Det røde atelier, der samler de malerier og skulpturer, man ser afbildet på maleriet, for første gang siden de forlod Matisses arbejdsrum. Bogen præsenterer os både for velkendte værker som Le Luxe (II) ( 1907-08) – et af de tre malerier fra SMK’s samling, der ses i Det røde atelier – og mindre kendte værker, hvis placering først for nylig er blevet opklaret. I et fortællende essay af Ann Temkin, The Marie-Josée and Henry Kravis Chief Curator of Painting and Sculpture ved The Museum of Modern Art, New York, og Dorthe Aagesen, Overinspektør og Seniorforsker ved SMK – Statens Museum for Kunst i København, spores Det røde ateliers historie, lige fra værket blev bestilt i 1910 over dets første udstillinger og ejere og frem til maleriets ankomst til MoMA. Gennem banebrydende forskning og nærlæsning af værket, ændrer Matisse: Det røde atelier vores forståelse af denne milepæl i det 20. århundredes kunst. Derudover rummer publikationen en artikel om konservatorernes opdagelser i forbindelse med tekniske undersøgelser af Det røde atelier og en detaljeret portfolio over de udstillede værkers historie og proveniens. Publikationen er udgivet i forbindelse med udstillingen Matisse: Det røde atelier, organiseret af The Museum of Modern Art, New York (1. maj –10. Sep., 2022), og SMK Statens Museum for Kunst, København (13. okt., 2022– 26. feb., 2023). Udstillingen er arrangeret af Ann Temkin og Dorthe Aagesen.

During a career spanning half a century, Ileana Sonnabend helped shape the course of postwar art in Europe and America. Both a gallerist and a noted collector, Sonnabend promoted some of the most significant art movements of her time.

Beginning in mid-1940s, under the aegis of Alfred H Barr, Jr, works by then little-known American artists including Pollock, de Kooning, Smith, Arshile Gorky and Adolph Gottlieb began to enter the Museum of Modern Art's collection. This book celebrates the Museum's holdings from this epochal moment in the history of art and the institution.

Dating from the 1960s, this book includes works that represent a total of thirty-eight European and American artists, whose work is beautifully reproduced here.

Presents a selection of signature works by European and American artists of the postwar generations, drawn from The UBS Art Collection - one of the richest and most varied corporate holdings of international contemporary art in the United States.