LACMA to Exhibit Annenberg Collection
The Los Angeles County Museum of Art will exhibit the renowned Walter H. Annenberg collection of Impressionist and Post-Impressionist artworks in 1990, museum Director Earl A. Powell announced Thursday.
The collection of 50 paintings, watercolors and drawings, to be exhibited from August to November, is considered one of the most important remaining in private hands and has never been shown in its entirety, Powell said.
“It is one of the greatest collections of Impressionist and Post-Impressionist artworks in the world,” Powell said.
Encompassing landscape, figure painting and still life, the collection features works by Monet, Degas, Renoir, Boudin, Corot, Manet, Morisot, Seurat, Toulouse-Lautrec, Van Gogh, Cezanne, Gauguin, Bonnard, Vuillard and Braque.
“Masterpieces of Impressionism and Post-Impressionism: The Annenberg Collection” will debut May 21 at the Philadelphia Museum of Art. It will travel to Washington’s National Gallery of Art in 1990 before its Los Angeles showing.
“Ambassador Annenberg, who has given us acquisition funds, has been generous to the museum in the past,” Powell said.
Annenberg, former ambassador to Great Britain and former owner of TV Guide magazine, amassed the collection over a period of more than 40 years.
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