VBMA Exhibition: French Moderns: Monet to Matisse, 1850 – 1950

French Moderns: Monet to Matisse, 1850- 1950
February 1–June 22, 2025
Holmes Gallery

Paris was regarded as the center of Western art in the 19th and early 20th centuries. The period’s leading artists experimented with bold, expressive styles—Realism, Impressionism, Post-Impressionism, Symbolism, Fauvism, Cubism, and Surrealism. Explore this pivotal and dynamic period in art history when the internationally touring French Moderns: Monet to Matisse, 1850- 1950 exhibition makes its first and only South/Central Florida stop at the Vero Beach Museum of Art, February 1 through June 22. The exhibition is organized by Lisa Small, Senior Curator of European Art, and Richard Aste, former Curator of European Art, Brooklyn Museum.

The French Moderns exhibition features 59 paintings and sculptures from that collection, including some of the most renowned names in Modern art— Renoir, Matisse, Léger, Bonnard, Morisot, Chagall, Vuillard, and Degas. It also highlights artists like Lajos Tihanyi, Aleksandr Yakovlev, and Giovanni Boldini, who settled in Paris and made significant contributions to the art scene, each hailing from Hungary, Russia, and Italy, respectively.

Each artwork in French Moderns is displayed with a corresponding extended label that provides insight into each artist’s sensibilities and, in many cases, points out revolutionary aspects of their subjects, style, and sources of inspiration.

Free with Museum admission.

IMAGE CAPTION: Claude Monet (French, 1840–1926). Rising Tide at Pourville, (detail), 1882. Oil on canvas, 26 x 32 in. (66 x 81.3cm). Brooklyn Museum, Gift of Mrs. Horace O. Havemeyer, 41.1260. (Photo: Brooklyn Museum)

This is a Weekly Recurring Event
Runs from Feb 1, 2025 to Jun 22, 2025 and happens every:
Mondays: 10:00am – 4:30pm Timezone: EST
Tuesdays: 10:00am – 4:30pm Timezone: EST
Wednesdays: 10:00am – 4:30pm Timezone: EST
Thursdays: 10:00am – 4:30pm Timezone: EST
Fridays: 10:00am – 4:30pm Timezone: EST
Saturdays: 10:00am – 4:30pm Timezone: EST
Sundays: 1:00pm – 4:00pm Timezone: EST