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october 02, 2019 - Fondation Beyeler
The Rudolf Staechelin Collection at the FONDATION BEYELER
The Rudolf Staechelin Collection
31 August – 29 October 2019
After four years, Rudolf Staechelin’s (1881–1946) renowned collection of paintings is returning to #basel. Following much-acclaimed exhibitions at the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía in Madrid and the Phillips Collection in Washington, D. C., both together with the Im Obersteg Collection, 19 impressionist, post-impressionist and classical modern works will be presented at the #fondationbeyeler in Riehen near #basel from 31 August 2019. These remarkable paintings by Paul Cézanne, Edgar Degas, Paul Gauguin, Vincent van Gogh, Ferdinand Hodler, Édouard Manet, Claude Monet, Pablo Picasso, Camille Pissarro and Auguste Renoir will be on focussed display until 29 October 2019. They will then be integrated in the Fondation Beyeler’s regularly evolving collection displays. The works’ return to public display in #basel marks a new chapter in the Rudolf Staechelin Collection’s eventful history. The Rudolf Staechelin Family Trust (New York) has entered a long-term loan agreement with the #fondationbeyeler for a period of ten years. During this time, none of the works may be sold. The loan’s associated costs, such as insurance, framing and restoration expenses, will be covered by the Rudolf Staechelin Family Trust. The #fondationbeyeler will regularly exhibit the works entrusted to its care and will in turn loan them to other Swiss and international museums. The Beyeler Collection is greatly enhanced by this renewed public and research access to art historically significant works, as the Staechelin paintings complement existing Beyeler holdings and introduce new points of emphasis. Paintings such as Arlequin au loup (1918) by Pablo Picasso, the still life Verre et pommes (1882) by Paul Cézanne and the landscape Temps calme, Fécamp (1881) by Claude Monet reinforce the core of the Beyeler Collection. This also holds true of other works by Cézanne, Degas, Monet and van Gogh, whose Le jardin de Daubigny (1890) offers a counterpart to the Beyeler Collection’s Champ aux meules de blé (1890). Both paintings were executed in Auvers-sur-Oise and belong to a group of 13 wide-format works, featuring the double-square format favoured by the painter in the last months of his life from mid-June 1890 onward. Examinations of the canvas structure carried out by the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam have revealed that the artist cut all double-square canvases from the same roll of fabric. The canvases for the Rudolf Staechelin Collection’s Le jardin de Daubigny and the Beyeler Collection’s Champ aux meules de blé are thus once more reunited in this exhibition. Closely tied to the development of modern art, exhibited in the past at the #fondationbeyeler, yet not represented in its holdings, Édouard Manet, Paul Gauguin, Auguste Renoir and Camille Pissarro are now enriching the Beyeler Collection with Tête de femme (1870) by Manet, Gabrielle (1910) by Renoir, and the landscape paintings Paysage au toit rouge (1885) by Gauguin as well as La Carrière, Pontoise (around 1874) and Le Sentier du village (1875) by Cézanne’s friend Pissarro. Late paintings by Ferdinand Hodler, to whom the #fondationbeyeler devoted an exhibition in 2013, form a highlight of the Rudolf Staechelin Collection. Among them are La malade (1914 and 1914/15), poignant portraits of his lover Valentine GodéDarel, La morte (1915), a work held in high regard by Hodler connoisseurs, as well as three magnificent landscapes, Paysage de Montana (1915), Le Grammont après la pluie (1917) and Le Mont-Blanc aux nuages roses (1918). Until 29 October 2019, all paintings on loan from the Rudolf Staechelin Collection will be presented in a specific two-room exhibition, accompanied by selected related works from the Beyeler Collection. They will then be exhibited in the next Beyeler Collection exhibition in a wider art historical context (from 2 November 2019 to 5 January 2020). The public is invited to (re)discover the Rudolf Staechelin Collection in its new home. To celebrate the return of the Staechelin paintings to #basel and make them accessible to all, the #fondationbeyeler is offering free admission to the museum all weekend (31.8.–1.9.19).
Press images available under www.fondationbeyeler.ch/en/media/press-images Further information: Silke Kellner-Mergenthaler Head of Communications Tel. + 41 (0)61 645 97 21, presse@fondationbeyeler.ch, www.fondationbeyeler.ch #fondationbeyeler, Beyeler Museum AG, Baselstrasse 77, CH-4125 Riehen #fondationbeyeler opening hours: 10am to 6pm daily, Wednesday 10am to 8pm
FONDATION BEYELER Press images: www.fondationbeyeler.ch/en/media/press-images The visual material may be used solely for press purposes in connection with reporting on the exhibition. Reproduction is permitted only in connection with the current exhibition and for the period of its duration. Any other kind of use – in analogue or digital form – must be authorised by the copyright holder(s). Purely private use is excluded from that provision. Please use the captions given and the associated copyrights. We kindly request you to send us a complimentary copy. August 31 – October 29, 2019 06 Ferdinand Hodler La morte, 1915 The Dead Valentine Godé-Darel, 1915 Oil on canvas, 65.0 x 81.0 cm Rudolf Staechelin Collection Photo: Robert Bayer 05 Édouard Manet Tête de femme, 1870 Head of a Woman Oil on canvas, 56.5 x 46.5 cm Rudolf Staechelin Collection Photo: Robert Bayer 07 Pablo Picasso Arlequin au loup, 1918 Harlequin with Black Mask Oil on canvas, 116.0 x 89.0 cm Rudolf Staechelin Collection © Succession Picasso / 2019, ProLitteris, Zürich Photo: Robert Bayer 01 Paul Gauguin Paysage au toit rouge, 1885 Landscape with Red Roof Oil on canvas, 81.5 x 66.0 cm Rudolf Staechelin Collection Photo: Robert Bayer 02 Vincent van Gogh Le jardin de Daubigny, 1890 Daubigny’s Garden Oil on canvas, 56.0 x 101.5 cm Rudolf Staechelin Collection Photo: Robert Bayer 03 Ferdinand Hodler Le Mont-Blanc aux nuages roses, 1918 Mont-Blanc with pink Clouds Oil on canvas, 60.0 x 85.0 cm Rudolf Staechelin Collection Photo: Robert Bayer 04 Ferdinand Hodler Le Grammont après la pluie, 1917 The Grammont after the Rain Oil on canvas, 60.5 x 80.0 cm Rudolf Staechelin Collection Photo: Robert Bayer COLLECTION RUDOLF STAECHELIN
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hodler la morte inv-dl-19-18 49418 LAC 240x300mm
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hodler le-mont-blanc inv-dl-19-16 49458 LAC 210x300mm
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van-gogh le-jardin-de inv-dl-19-07 49452 LAC 160x300mm
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web manet tete-de-femme inv-dl-19-10 49474 LAC 380x300mm
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gaugin paysage-au-toit inv-dl-19-06 49470 LAC 370x300mm
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