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Art museum acquires new work including prints, fan paintings
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The Cleveland Museum of Art has announced additions to its permanent collection, including “Self-Portrait in Bowler Hat” by print-making icon Max Beckmann (German, 1884-1950). Beckmann executed more than 80 self-portraits in all media during his career.
CMA has also acquired a set of twelve painted fans by Fu Baoshi (Chinese, 1904-65), created for his wife and daughter as he neared the end of his life, and a gothic, illuminated Bible in a quarto format that dates to the late 13th century. The Bible, most likely created in Toulouse, France, is unusual for its size and two columns of dense script, which allow it all to fit in a single book. There is also a Régence console, symbol of 18th-century Parisian wealth and French decorative arts, that has been attributed to the Société pour les Bâtiments du Roi (King’s Works). The piece will be displayed with a Régence mirror already in CMA’s collection.
The “Deer-Headed Effigy Vessel” is the first piece of its kind to enter the CMA collection, joining six other Moche ceramics and three Moche jewelry pieces from the Central Andes (Peru), 500-650 C.E.
Renowned French artist and draftsman Jean Antoine Watteau (1684-1721) executed only 14 etchings in his life, and CMA has acquired the most important of these: “The Clothes Are Italian” (1715-16). It is the last of Watteau’s etchings to be acquired and displayed by a museum.
CMA has also acquired a set of twelve painted fans by Fu Baoshi (Chinese, 1904-65), created for his wife and daughter as he neared the end of his life, and a gothic, illuminated Bible in a quarto format that dates to the late 13th century. The Bible, most likely created in Toulouse, France, is unusual for its size and two columns of dense script, which allow it all to fit in a single book. There is also a Régence console, symbol of 18th-century Parisian wealth and French decorative arts, that has been attributed to the Société pour les Bâtiments du Roi (King’s Works). The piece will be displayed with a Régence mirror already in CMA’s collection.
The “Deer-Headed Effigy Vessel” is the first piece of its kind to enter the CMA collection, joining six other Moche ceramics and three Moche jewelry pieces from the Central Andes (Peru), 500-650 C.E.
Renowned French artist and draftsman Jean Antoine Watteau (1684-1721) executed only 14 etchings in his life, and CMA has acquired the most important of these: “The Clothes Are Italian” (1715-16). It is the last of Watteau’s etchings to be acquired and displayed by a museum.
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