Boston Museum Vegas Gallery team up.

Art Business News, Sept, 2005

LAS VEGAS -- The Bellagio Gallery of Fine Art and the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, have partnered once again to present through Jan. 8, "The Impressionist Landscape from Corot to Van Gogh." The exhibit features 34 paintings by the masters of 19th-century French painting, beginning with Barbizon School painters Camille Corot and Theodore Rousseau, and continuing through to the Impressionists and post-Impressionists, Eugene Boudin, Paul Cezanne, Paul Gauguin, Vincent Van Gogh, Claude Monet and Pierre-Auguste Renoir. Offering an overview of the rise of landscape art in the 19th-century France, the show depicts the artists' love of nature that includes scenes of fields, forests and river banks.

"Since beginning our collaboration with the [Museum of Fine Arts, Boston] nearly two years ago, our diverse audience has responded overwhelmingly to the Monet collection," says Andrea Bundonis, president of the Bellagio Gallery. "We will now be able to introduce our visitors to a broader segment of the MFA's collection of 19th-century French landscapes with 34 works by 16 artists, the largest Impressionist exhibition ever presented in Las Vegas."

Hoping to continue the momentum begun by the successful exhibit, "Claude Monet: Masterworks from the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston," Malcolm Rogers, director for the MFA, says, "Nearly 400,000 people from around the world have had the opportunity to see highlights from the museum's collection of paintings by Monet at the Bellagio Gallery of Fine Art. We are thrilled to share our collection with this international audience."

The exhibit features five paintings from Monet, including "The Water Lily Pond, Japanese Bridge 1900"; three paintings by Renoir, including "Girls Picking Flowers in a Meadow, 1890"; and two late landscapes by Van Gogh, including "Houses at Auvers, 1890."

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