RAVISHING BEAUTY: The Art of Tissot and Helleu

Jean-Jaques Tissot (1836-1902) and Paul César Helleu (1959-1927) devoted much of their lives to the pursuit of beauty, though each approached it with his own indvidual obsessions. Tissot was fascinated by clothing, the texture, shape and fall of fabrics and the details of settings.  Helleu employed the simplest of lines to capture human sentiments: fleeting expressions from playfulness to challenge, from concentration to sleep.  This exhibition explores the intimate preoccupations of these two artists through 100 superb drawings and prints selected from private collections in Europe.

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MURAQQA' Attendance Tops THE ART NEWSPAPER'S 2008 Figures!
Wednesday, April 08, 2009

"MURAQQA': Imperial Mughal Albums from the Chester Beatty Library, Dublin" is one of 2008's top ten most-attended exhibitions of Asian Art in the world, according to April's The Art Newspaper.

The exhibitions's premier venue at the Arthur M. Sackler Gallery in Washington, DC garnered a very impressive total of 279,265 visitors from May 3rd through August 3rd, 2008.  This figure places the exhibition as the ninth highest-attended Asian art exhibition of 2008, and the fifty-third highest out of all 2008 art exhibitions in the United Stated and abroad!

 

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