Nov 3 Mon MET FRICK EL GRECO SHOWS
MET MUSEUM
El Greco in New York
November 4, 2014–February 1, 2015
To commemorate the 400th anniversary of the death of El Greco (Domenikos Theotokopoulos, 1541–1614), this special collaboration brings together all of the artist’s paintings in The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s collection, the finest outside the Museo del Prado in Madrid, and displays them with six loans from the Hispanic Society of America. El Greco in New York is, in effect, a mini-retrospective of the artist, with the ten paintings from the Metropolitan Museum and six from the Hispanic Society of America spanning El Greco’s entire career, from his arrival in Venice in 1567, through his move to Rome in 1570 and his long residence in Toledo, Spain, from 1577 until his death in 1614.
THE FRICK CONTINUES 2014 FOCUS ON EL GRECO BY UNITING ITS THREE REMARKABLE PAINTINGS BY THE ARTIST TOGETHER FOR THE FIRST TIME
EL GRECO AT THE FRICK COLLECTION
November 4, 2014, through February 1, 2015
El Greco at The Frick Collection will be on view during the media preview of Masterpieces from the Scottish National Gallery on Monday, November 3, 10:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m.
The Frick Collection, 1 East 70th Street, New York, NY 10021; RSVP: (212) 547-0710
El Greco (1541–1614)
Purification of the Temple, c. 1600
oil on canvas, The Frick Collection; photo: Michael Bodycomb
El Greco (1541-1614)
St. Jerome, 1590-1600, oil on canvas, The Frick Collection; photo: Michael Bodycomb
This year, a number of exhibitions and events around the world have commemorated the four-hundredth anniversary of the death of El Greco, the extraordinary Greek artist who, after a brief period in Rome, spent most of his life in Spain. Toledo, the Spanish city in which he lived, has been at the forefront of the festivities, which began last spring with a major monographic exhibition at the Museo de Santa Cruz. Throughout the fall, a series of exhibitions in New York will also pay tribute to El Greco’s art. From August 5 through October 26, the Frick presents Men in Armor: El Greco and Pulzone Face to Face, which pairs his celebrated portrait of Vincenzo Anastagi with a rarely seen Scipione Pulzone portrait of Jacopo Boncompagni. Beginning November 4, the Frick continues the 2014 focus on the artist with El Greco at The Frick Collection, uniting its three remarkable paintings—Purification of the Temple, St. Jerome, and the portrait of Vincenzo Anastagi—and showing them together for the first time. This installation, which will be on view in the East Gallery, is coordinated by the Frick’s Peter Jay Sharp Chief Curator, Xavier F. Salomon, and organized in conjunction with the exhibition El Greco in New York at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, which will show all of the painter’s work from its collection together with that of the Hispanic Society of America.
Read MoreEl Greco in New York
November 4, 2014–February 1, 2015
To commemorate the 400th anniversary of the death of El Greco (Domenikos Theotokopoulos, 1541–1614), this special collaboration brings together all of the artist’s paintings in The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s collection, the finest outside the Museo del Prado in Madrid, and displays them with six loans from the Hispanic Society of America. El Greco in New York is, in effect, a mini-retrospective of the artist, with the ten paintings from the Metropolitan Museum and six from the Hispanic Society of America spanning El Greco’s entire career, from his arrival in Venice in 1567, through his move to Rome in 1570 and his long residence in Toledo, Spain, from 1577 until his death in 1614.
THE FRICK CONTINUES 2014 FOCUS ON EL GRECO BY UNITING ITS THREE REMARKABLE PAINTINGS BY THE ARTIST TOGETHER FOR THE FIRST TIME
EL GRECO AT THE FRICK COLLECTION
November 4, 2014, through February 1, 2015
El Greco at The Frick Collection will be on view during the media preview of Masterpieces from the Scottish National Gallery on Monday, November 3, 10:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m.
The Frick Collection, 1 East 70th Street, New York, NY 10021; RSVP: (212) 547-0710
El Greco (1541–1614)
Purification of the Temple, c. 1600
oil on canvas, The Frick Collection; photo: Michael Bodycomb
El Greco (1541-1614)
St. Jerome, 1590-1600, oil on canvas, The Frick Collection; photo: Michael Bodycomb
This year, a number of exhibitions and events around the world have commemorated the four-hundredth anniversary of the death of El Greco, the extraordinary Greek artist who, after a brief period in Rome, spent most of his life in Spain. Toledo, the Spanish city in which he lived, has been at the forefront of the festivities, which began last spring with a major monographic exhibition at the Museo de Santa Cruz. Throughout the fall, a series of exhibitions in New York will also pay tribute to El Greco’s art. From August 5 through October 26, the Frick presents Men in Armor: El Greco and Pulzone Face to Face, which pairs his celebrated portrait of Vincenzo Anastagi with a rarely seen Scipione Pulzone portrait of Jacopo Boncompagni. Beginning November 4, the Frick continues the 2014 focus on the artist with El Greco at The Frick Collection, uniting its three remarkable paintings—Purification of the Temple, St. Jerome, and the portrait of Vincenzo Anastagi—and showing them together for the first time. This installation, which will be on view in the East Gallery, is coordinated by the Frick’s Peter Jay Sharp Chief Curator, Xavier F. Salomon, and organized in conjunction with the exhibition El Greco in New York at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, which will show all of the painter’s work from its collection together with that of the Hispanic Society of America.
