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Collection Beyeler / Collection Rudolf Staechelin 26 October 2019 – 5 January 2020 After a four-year absence, Rudolf Staechelin’s (1881–1946) renowned collection of paintings has finally returned to Basel. After a first concentrated exhibition showing a series of highly successful dialogues with masterpieces from the Beyeler Collection, the nineteen impressionist, post-impressionist and classical modern works will be presented at the Fondation Beyeler in Riehen near Basel from 26 October onwards. These remarkable masterpieces by Paul Cézanne, Edgar Degas, Paul Gauguin, Vincent van Gogh, Ferdinand Hodler, Édouard Manet, Claude Monet, Pablo Picasso, Camille Pissarro and Auguste Renoir will be on display in new and surprising combinations alongside groups of works from the Beyeler Collection until 5 January 2020. Particularly deserving of mention is the gallery showing works by Hodler and Mark Rothko, highlighting how Hodler’s idea of parallelism in abstract expressionism was later taken up elsewhere. The new display of the Foundation’s collection will also incorporate works by, for instance, Louise Bourgeois, Wolfgang Tilmanns, Roni Horn, Georg Baselitz, Richard Serra and Alberto Giacometti. The Rudolf Staechelin Family Trust (New York) has entered a long-term loan agreement with the Fondation Beyeler for a period of ten years. During this time, none of the works may be sold. The loan’s associated costs, such as insurance, framing and restoration expenses, will be covered by the Rudolf Staechelin Family Trust. The Fondation Beyeler will regularly exhibit the works entrusted to its care and will in turn loan them to other Swiss and international museums. The Beyeler Collection is greatly enhanced by this renewed public and research access to art historically significant works, as the Staechelin paintings complement existing Beyeler holdings and introduce new points of emphasis. Paintings such as Arlequin au loup (1918) by Pablo Picasso, the still life Verre et pommes (1882) by Paul Cézanne and the landscape Temps calme, Fécamp (1881) by Claude Monet reinforce the core of the Beyeler Collection. This also holds true of other works by Cézanne, Degas, Monet and van Gogh, whose Le jardin de Daubigny (1890) offers a counterpart to the Beyeler Collection’s Champ aux meules de blé (1890). Both paintings were executed in Auvers-sur-Oise and belong to a group of 13 wide-format works, featuring the double-square format favoured by the painter in the last months of his life from mid-June 1890 onward. Examinations of the canvas structure carried out by the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam have revealed that the artist cut all double-square canvases from the same roll of fabric. The canvases for the Rudolf Staechelin Collection’s Le jardin de Daubigny and the Beyeler Collection’s Champ aux meules de blé are thus once more reunited in this exhibition. Closely tied to the development of modern art, exhibited in the past at the Fondation Beyeler, yet not represented in its holdings, Édouard Manet, Paul Gauguin, Auguste Renoir and Camille Pissarro are now enriching the Beyeler Collection with Tête de femme (1870) by Manet, Gabrielle (1910) by Renoir, and the landscape paintings Paysage au toit rouge (1885) by Gauguin as well as La Carrière, Pontoise (around 1874) and Le Sentier du village (1875) by Cézanne’s friend Pissarro. Late paintings by Ferdinand Hodler, to whom the Fondation Beyeler devoted an exhibition in 2013, form a highlight of the Rudolf Staechelin Collection. Among them are La malade (1914 and 1914/15), poignant portraits of his lover Valentine Godé- Darel, La morte (1915), a work held in high regard by Hodler connoisseurs, as well as three magnificent landscapes, Paysage de Montana (1915), Le Grammont après la pluie (1917) and Le Mont-Blanc aux nuages roses (1918). Until 25 October 2019, all paintings on loan from the Rudolf Staechelin Collection will be presented in a specific two-room exhibition, accompanied by selected related works from the Beyeler Collection. They will then be exhibited in the next Beyeler Collection exhibition in a wider art historical context (from 26 October 2019 until 5 January 2020). The public is invited to (re)discover the Rudolf Staechelin Collection in its new home.
The exhibition is generously supported by: Beyeler-Stiftung Hansjörg Wyss, Wyss Foundation Fondation Coromandel Press images available under www.fondationbeyeler.ch/en/media/press-images Further information: Silke Kellner-Mergenthaler Head of Communications Tel. + 41 (0)61 645 97 21, presse@fondationbeyeler.ch, www.fondationbeyeler.ch Fondation Beyeler, Beyeler Museum AG, Baselstrasse 77, CH-4125 Riehen Fondation Beyeler opening hours: 10am to 6pm daily, Wednesday 10am to 8pm
COLLECTION RUDOLF STAECHELIN August 31 – October 29, 2019
01 Paul Gauguin 02 Vincent van Gogh
Paysage au toit rouge, 1885 Le jardin de Daubigny, 1890
Landscape with Red Roof Daubigny’s Garden
Oil on canvas, 81.5 x 66.0 cm Oil on canvas, 56.0 x 101.5 cm
Rudolf Staechelin Collection Rudolf Staechelin Collection
Photo: Robert Bayer Photo: Robert Bayer
03 Ferdinand Hodler 04 Ferdinand Hodler
Le Mont-Blanc aux nuages roses, 1918 Le Grammont après la pluie, 1917
Mont-Blanc with pink Clouds The Grammont after the Rain
Oil on canvas, 60.0 x 85.0 cm Oil on canvas, 60.5 x 80.0 cm
Rudolf Staechelin Collection Rudolf Staechelin Collection
Photo: Robert Bayer Photo: Robert Bayer
05 Édouard Manet 06 Ferdinand Hodler 07 Pablo Picasso
Tête de femme, 1870 La morte, 1915 Arlequin au loup, 1918
Head of a Woman The Dead Valentine Godé-Darel, 1915 Harlequin with Black Mask
Oil on canvas, 56.5 x 46.5 cm Oil on canvas, 65.0 x 81.0 cm Oil on canvas, 116.0 x 89.0 cm
Rudolf Staechelin Collection Rudolf Staechelin Collection Rudolf Staechelin Collection
Photo: Robert Bayer Photo: Robert Bayer © Succession Picasso / 2019, ProLitteris, Zürich
Photo: Robert Bayer
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