Estate voglia di sole, ti
spiagge e di corpi nudi al vento, devono aver pensato al Met, e così voilà ti
organizzano una bella mostra sui nudi (ma poco assolati) della collezione
Scofield Thayer.
Gustav Klimt, Egon Schiele
e Pablo Picasso sono gli autori delle opere selezione, cinquanta stupendi
disegni legati dal tema che manifestano anche una complessa e intimi lettura
della fisicità nei primi decenni dello scorso secolo.
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This exhibition at The Met Breuer presents a selection of some fifty works from The Met's Scofield Thayer
Collection—a collection that is best known for paintings by artists of the
school of Paris, and a brilliant group of erotic and evocative watercolors,
drawings, and prints by Gustav Klimt, Egon Schiele, and Pablo Picasso, whose
subjects, except for a handful, are nudes. The exhibition is the first time
these works have been shown together, and provides a focused look at this
important collection; it also marks the centenary of the deaths of Klimt and
Schiele.
An aesthete and scion of a
wealthy family, Scofield Thayer (1889–1982) was co-owner and editor of the
literary magazine the Dial from 1919 to 1926. In this avant-garde journal he
introduced Americans to the writings of T. S. Eliot, Ezra Pound, D. H.
Lawrence, Arthur Schnitzler, Thomas Mann, and Marcel Proust, among others. He
frequently accompanied these writers' contributions with reproductions of
modern art. Thayer assembled his large collection of some six hundred
works—mostly works on paper—with staggering speed in London, Paris, Berlin, and
Vienna between 1921 and 1923. While he was a patient of Sigmund Freud in
Vienna, he acquired a large group of watercolors and drawings by Schiele and
Klimt, artists who at that time were unknown in America.
When a selection from his
collection was shown at the Montross Gallery in New York in 1924—five years
before the Museum of Modern Art opened—it won acclaim. It found no favor,
however, in Thayer's native city, Worcester, Massachusetts, that same year when
it was shown at the Worcester Art Museum. Incensed, Thayer drew up his will in
1925, leaving his collection to The Metropolitan Museum of Art. He withdrew
from public life in the late 1920s and lived as a recluse on Martha's Vineyard
and in Florida until his death in 1982.
Accompanied by a catalogue.
Visitors are advised that
some images in this exhibition contain explicit erotic content.
