Mondays & Thursdays, October 23–February 20, 2 – 3pm
Henri Rousseau. The Sleeping Gypsy (detail), 1897. The Museum of Modern Art, New York. Gift of Mrs. Simon Guggenheim, 1939. Image © The Museum of Modern Art / Licensed by Scala / Art Resource, New York
Free; registration required.
About the Tour
Members are invited to an exclusive tour of Henri Rousseau: A Painter’s Secrets, now on view in the Roberts Gallery.
This landmark exhibition brings together important paintings from collections around the world, showing how Rousseau painted with viewers in mind, changing his compositions and subjects to suit their preferences. Building on a comprehensive research study of the 18 works by Rousseau at the Barnes, the exhibition was developed in partnership with the Musée de l’Orangerie, Paris, which houses the collection of the art dealer Paul Guillaume. Guillaume sold many Rousseau paintings to Dr. Albert Barnes but kept others for his own collection; this exhibition reunites these works for the first time in more than a hundred years.
Includes access to the collection before and after the tour.
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