2011

Exhibitions scheduled at The Frick Collection during 2011.

Past Exhibition: Picasso's Drawings

Close up of a drawing of a woman's face.
Picasso's Drawings, 1890–1921: Reinventing Tradition
October 4, 2011 to January 8, 2012

Pablo Picasso (1881–1973) is generally acknowledged to be the greatest draftsman of the twentieth century. The Frick Collection, New York, and the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.,  co-organized an exhibition that looked at the dazzling development of Picasso's drawings, from the precocious academic exercises of his youth in the 1890s to the virtuoso classical works of the early 1920s.

Past Exhibition

Green porcelain teapot with orange fish decorations.
White Gold: Highlights from the Arnhold Collection of Meissen Porcelain
December 13, 2011 to January 6, 2013

New Portico Gallery Opened with Presentation of Sculpture and Selections from an Important Promised Gift of Meissen Porcelain from Henry H. Arnhold

Past Exhibition: Rembrandt and His School

Print of a man's head.
Rembrandt and His School: Masterworks from the Frick and Lugt Collections
February 15, 2011 to May 15, 2011

When Henry Clay Frick (1849–1919) was asked whose talents he would most like to possess, he declared: "Rembrandt's." And as the largest individual railway stockholder in the world, Frick is reported to have said that "railways are the Rembrandts of investment." Like Frick, the Dutch art historian Frederik Johannes Lugt (1884–1970) was a great admirer and collector of works by the Dutch artist Rembrandt van Rijn (1606–1669); as a teenager he wrote a biography of the artist, illustrated with his own copies after Rembrandt's most famous works.

Past Exhibition: The King at War

Oil painting of a man in red coat, holding a white stick and black hat.

The King at War: Velázquez's Portrait of Philip IV

October 26, 2010 to January 23, 2011

Painted at the height of Velázquez's career, the Frick's King Philip IV of Spain (1644) is one of the artist's consummate achievements. Contemporary chronicles as well as bills and invoices in Spanish archives indicate that it was painted in a makeshift studio only a few miles from the frontlines of a battle, and that it was completed in just three sittings. The work, which shows its subject dressed in military costume, an atypical depiction, was sent to Madrid where it was used during a victory celebration.

Past Exhibition: The Spanish Manner

Drawing of a man wearing a hat with small human figures upon it.

The Spanish Manner: Drawings from Ribera to Goya

October 5, 2010 to January 9, 2011

The greatest Spanish draftsmen from the seventeenth through the nineteenth century — Ribera, Murillo, and Goya, among them — created works of dazzling idiosyncrasy. These diverse drawings, which may be broadly characterized as possessing a specifically "Spanish manner," will be the subject of an exclusive exhibition at The Frick Collection in the fall of 2010.

Past Exhibition: Turkish Taste

Marble table with male figure supports on a gold base.

Turkish Taste at the Court of Marie-Antoinette

June 8, 2011 to September 11, 2011

France has long been fascinated by the Ottoman Empire, and for hundreds of years the taste for turquerie was evident in French fashion, literature, theater and opera, painting, architecture, and interior decoration. Turquerie, a term that came into use in the early nineteenth century, referred to essentially anything produced in the West that evoked or imitated Turkish culture.

Past Exhibition: Bellini's St. Francis

Oil painting of St. Francis in a landscape.
In a New Light: Bellini's St. Francis in the Desert
May 22, 2011 to August 28, 2011

One of the most familiar and beloved paintings at The Frick Collection, Giovanni Bellini’s St. Francis in the Desert (c. 1480), is also deeply enigmatic. The artist has imagined this medieval saint alone in a stony wilderness, stepping forward from his simple shelter into a golden light that seems to transfigure him spiritually. For centuries, viewers of this masterpiece have puzzled over the meaning of Bellini’s composition and have sought explanations in a variety of pictorial and textual sources.