As mentioned in an earlier post, the collection can’t really compare with MoMA’s, not the exhaustive mass of definitive works, but there are some gems. Post-Impressionists, Fauvists, Modernists,- a lovely little Kandinsky stood out as did Vuillard’s Place Vintimille. A great painting in two panels, very fresh, there is a lovely loose painterly feel, wonderful splashes of light and colour, a range of beautiful greys, movement – a real treat and top of my hypothetical art-theft shopping list for the day (though would be quite hard to hide both panels up my jumper).
What was also a treat was a gallery dedicated to works from the inaugural 1959 exhibition on ‘young’ international painters of that period. Not just Pollock, De Kooning, but Brooks, Baziotes, Feito, Tapies, Yamaguchi, Dazama, Sagai. Some real crackers and a reminder that painting was in rude health in the mid to late 1950s.
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