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Members Brunch & Art Exhibit Tour at The Barnes Foundation
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Kathleen Kelly
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About this event
Walnut Club members are invited to a brunch and private artwork exhibit tour at The Barnes Foundation.
We'll begin our morning with a docent-led tour of the special exhibit: Marie Laurencin: Sapphic Paris, followed by brunch at the Garden Restaurant, located inside The Barnes.
Enjoy the sophisticated New American menu at the Garden Restaurant, which features French influences and fresh locally and seasonally sourced ingredients.
There is no charge for Walnut Club members to attend the tour & exhibit. All guests are responsible for their own meals.
About the exhibit:
Beginning in the early 20th century, French artist Marie Laurencin (1883–1956) created a unique pictorial world that placed women at the center of modern art. With a highly original painting style that defied categorization, she moved seamlessly between the male-dominated cubist avant-garde, lesbian literary and artistic circles, and the realms of fashion, ballet, and decorative arts.
On view in the Roberts Gallery, this exhibition explores Laurencin’s career, from her self-portraits to her collaborative decorative projects; from her early cubist paintings to her signature work—feminine and discreetly queer—that defined 1920s Paris. Presenting more than 50 works by Laurencin, it examines how her visualization of a “Sapphic modernity” subtly but radically challenges existing narratives of modern European art.
(Photo: Amedeo Modigliani. Young Woman in a Yellow Dress (Renée Modot), 1918. Collezione Fondazione Francesco Federico Cerruti per l’Arte, on long-term loan to the Castello di Rivoli Museo d’Arte Contemporanea, Turin)
This event is for members only. At registration, you may select to attend brunch & the tour or just brunch.
Everyone is on their own to pay for their meals. Tour tickets are non-refundable.
Members must be logged into the website in order to register.
Marie Laurencin. Women with Dove, 1919. Artwork © 2023 Fondation Foujita / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / ADAGP, Paris. Photo: Jacques Faujour / Digital Image © 2023 CNAC/MNAM, Dist. RMN-Grand Palais / Art Resource, NY
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