Blockbuster exhibition on Johannesburg impressionists comes to Siena

They are now like rock stars on tour, the works of Degas, Monet, Cézanne, Matisse and colleagues belonging to the Johannesburg Art Gallery, for years engaged in a long tour through Italy: Genoa, Monza, Conegliano, Bard are the cities so far touched by the tour of “South African” paintings. Now, these paintings are on display in a new leg of the blockbuster exhibition, stopping in Siena, at Santa Maria della Scala, from June 13 to September 13, 2020, with a new title: The Dream of Lady Florence Phillips - The Johannesburg Art Gallery Collection.

Also in Siena, as in the other cities, a selection of works (sixty, including oil paintings, watercolors and graphics) to tell the story of twentieth-century art, as well as that of the collection of Florence Phillips, wife of mining magnate Sir Lionel Phillips. Thus, works by artists such as Van Gogh, Degas, Monet, Cézanne, Matisse, Modigliani, Turner, Rodin, Moore, Lichtenstein, Derain, Pissarro, Corot, Sargent, Sisley, Bacon, Rossetti, Warhol, Signac, Picasso, and many others arrive in Tuscany.

Curated by Simona Bartolena with a Skira catalog, the exhibition will open for reservations starting Monday, Feb. 3, 2020 at +39 0577 286300 or by emailing sienasms@operalaboratori.com.

Pictured: Claude Monet, The Spring (1875).

Blockbuster exhibition on Johannesburg impressionists comes to Siena

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