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Home > Art > Bernheim-Jeune & Cie. Galleries Exhibition Poster

Bernheim-Jeune & Cie. Galleries Exhibition Poster

Artist

Morgan Russell

Date

1913

Medium

and letterpress printing on paper

Gouache

oil

Object Type

Work on Paper

Dimensions

H- 33 3/8 x W- 20 3/8 in. (84.8 x 51.8 cm)

Artist's Country of Birth

United States

Collecting Area

American Modernism

Credit Line

The Vilcek Foundation

Accession Number

VF2015.05.10

Copyright

© The Vilcek Foundation

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About the Object

Morgan Russell and Stanton Macdonald-Wright founded Synchromism (which means “with color”), a movement in which color becomes an independent expressive and formal element, in 1912 and held their first exhibitions in Munich and Paris the following year. This hand-painted exhibition poster advertised their show at the Bernheim-Jeune gallery in Paris from October 27 to November 8, 1913. Russell signed this painting in the lower right corner. The S-curve of twisting planes of color contains more tension than the soft curve of the forms in the Munich poster (VF2015.05.11).

 

Additional Information

These posters were affixed to walls and kiosks in those cities and were soon removed as souvenirs by passersby.

The Artist;
Estate of the Artist;
Louis Sol, Aigremont, France;
Benjamin F. Garber with William C. Agee acting as agent;
Henry M. Reed, Caldwell, NJ;
[Gerald Peters Gallery, Santa Fe, NM];
Private Collection, Dallas, TX;
[The Owings Gallery, Santa Fe, NM];
Jan T. and Marica Vilcek Collection, New York, NY, 2010-2015;

Montclair, NJ. Montclair Art Museum. Morgan Russell: The Origins of a Modern Masterpiece (January 25, 1998-April 26, 1998); Philadelphia, PA. The Museum of American Art of the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts (June 12, 1998-August 23); Huntington, NY. Heckscher Museum of Art (September 5, 1998-November 15, 1998); pp. 7, 68, 70, 208, ill. p. 70 pl. 41, cat. no. 29.

New York, NY. Hollis Taggart Galleries. Synchromism: Morgan Russell and Stanton Macdonald-Wright. May 1-28, 1999, pp. 6, 7, 24, ill. p. 7, pl. 2.

New York, NY. The Vilcek Foundation. With Color. May 16, 2013.

Corpus Christi, TX. The Art Museum of South Texas. Masterpieces of American Modernism from the Vilcek Collection of American Art. September 13, 2018-January 6, 2019.

New York, NY. The Vilcek Foundation. The Synchromists, 2020-2021.

Madrid, Spain. Thyssen-Bornemisza Museo Nacional. The Synchromists. June 27-November 1, 2022.

New York, NY. Guggenheim New York. Harmony and Dissonance: Orphism in Paris, 1910–1930. November 8, 2024–March 9, 2025.

Kramer, Hilton. “Morgan Russell’s Fine Art: Thank You, Michelangelo,” New York Observer, March 23, 1998, ill. p. 31.

Agee, William C. and Lewis Kachur. Masterpieces of American Modernism: From the Vilcek Collection. London: Merrell, 2013, pp. 128, 130-131, 132, 166, 267, ill. pp. 130, 131.

O’Hern, John. “Modern Manor,” American Fine Art Magazine, September/October 2013, ill. p. 63.

Dorfman, John. “Over the Rainbow,” Art & Antiques, November 2020, ill. p. 46.

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