Jewelry by artist. From Modernisme to the early avant-garde
Jewelry by artist. From Modernisme to the early avant-garde will reveal how major artists at the forefront of creative trends in the fertile 20th century --both Catalans and their international counterparts, from Modernisme to the first historic avant-garde movements --approached the world of jewellery.
The exhibition will expose the least-known facets of Auguste Rodin, Hector Guimard, Alphonse Mucha, Josep Hoffmann, Josep Llimona, Koloman Moser, Serrurier-Bovy, Henry Van de Velde, Manolo Hugué, Paco Durrio, Xavier Nogués, Pau Gargallo, Max Ernst, Yves Tanguy, Salvador Dalí, André Derain, Georges Braque, Alexander Calder, Fernand Léger, Charlotte Perriand, Hans Arp, Giorgio de Chirico, Man Ray, Pablo Picasso, Julio González, Henri Laurens and Alberto Giacometti, as well as many others.
The works on show come from public institutions and museums all over the world, as well as from private collections and from the MNAC's own collection. In particular, the exhibition will include works from different museums all over the world, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Museum of Modern Art and Whitney Museum of American Art, in New York; the Victoria and Albert Museum, in London; the Musée des Arts Décoratifs, the Musée d'Orsay and the Musée Rodin, in Paris; the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, in Madrid; the Institut d'Art Modern (IVAM), in Valencia, and the Museo de Bellas Artes, in Bilbao, amongst many others, and from numerous private collections in Europe and America.
