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Déjà Vu? Revealing Repetition in French Masterpieces
10/7/2007

Déjà Vu? Revealing Repetition in French Masterpieces

October 7, 2007–January 1, 2008

The Walters will present Déjà Vu? Revealing Repetition in French Masterpieces, an unprecedented international loan exhibition exploring the changing significance of repetition in early modern painting (roughly 1800–1940). The show will feature 11 celebrated 19th- and 20th-century French artists, including Jacques-Louis David, Eugène Delacroix, Claude Monet, Paul Cézanne, Edgar Degas and Henri Matisse. This exhibition is comprised of 76 paintings, pastels, drawings, prints, photographs and sculptures. The works selected exemplify the many reasons for painterly repetition, whether as part of a creative process, in response to market demand or to a new aesthetics of repetition, most dramatically demonstrated by the Impressionist series. It will also feature several multimedia interactive tools, including an original video of David’s Death of Marat, which will provide a virtual comparison of this first version to the four painted copies featured in the installation. The show will travel to the Phoenix Art Museum from Jan. 20 to May 4, 2008. Déjà Vu? Revealing Repetition in French Masterpieces has been organized by the Walters Art Museum, Baltimore, in association with the Phoenix Art Museum. The exhibition is supported by an indemnity from the Federal Council on the Arts and the Humanities. Déjà Vu? Revealing Repetition in French Masterpieces is presented by The PNC Foundation with lead support from four anonymous donors. Contributing sponsors are Canusa Corporation, Stanley Mazaroff and Nancy Dorman, and Sotheby’s.

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Paul Cézanne, Bathers, 1890–92, oil on canvas, 54.3 x 66 cm, Saint Louis Art Museum, Funds given by Mrs. Mark C. Steinberg (2:1956)