French painter Edouard Manet's portraits will be
showcased in a major exhibition at London's Royal Academy next year.
The
retrospective is the first of its kind in the UK and is expected to be one of
2013's exhibition highlights.
More than 50
paintings spanning Manet's career have been collected from around the world,
from both public collections and private owners.
They include
famous images such as The Railway and Mademoiselle Claus.
Manet:
Portraying Life will feature the 19th-Century French painter's "great
works" alongside lesser known pieces.
The show's
curator, MaryAnne Stevens, has also promised "quite a lot of
surprises" when the show opens in January.
Stevens said
that Manet's portraits have "not been studied in either exhibition or book
form" before, despite the artist's "unswerving commitment to the
genre of portraiture throughout his career".
Throughout his
life Manet surrounded himself with a wide circle of friends and admirers,
including leading figures from the artistic, literary and musical communities.
The latter
often served as sitters for his portraits, along with his family.
The exhibition
will examine the relationship between Manet's portrait painting and his scenes
of modern life, with different sections focusing on elements such as family,
artist friends and "status portraits" of such figures as the
politicians Henri Rochefort and Antonin Proust.
Other
highlights include The Luncheon, on loan from the Neue Pinakothek in Munich,
which depicts Leon, the son of Manet's wife.
Manet's
professional career as an artist lasted less than three decades and was cut
short by his premature death in 1883 at the age of 51.
The Royal
Academy will stage the exhibition - a collaboration with the Toledo Museum of
Art in Ohio - from 26 January to 14 April.
Source:
BBC
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