Great Masterpieces Arrive in Taiwan

Art from an exhibition from the U.S. city of Philadelphia arrived in Taiwan on Friday. It includes some of the most influential masterpieces in European art history.

The Taipei Fine Arts Museum collaborated with the Philadelphia Museum of Art for the first time to offer an overview of art from the 19th and 20th centuries.

It contains 58 masterpieces by 33 artists.

[Chen Wen-ling, Acting Director, Taipei Fine Arts Museum]:
„Our cooperation with the Philadelphia Museum of Art is a special presentation on the art history of different genres and styles since the 19th century. The collection in the Philadelphia Museum of Art is very impressive, with 225,000 art pieces. They have a very rich collection from the impressionists to modern art, they are all masterpieces.“

The first five oil paintings were revealed at a news conference on Friday. They include paintings from Monet (moe-NAY), Renoir (ren-WAHR), Matisse (muh-TEES) and Picasso.

[Mark Castro, Philadelphia Museum of Art]:
„I can’t seriously say which is the most expensive, not something that we are permitted to say, but I will say that these are really very much the masterpieces of the Philadelphia Museum, and we have a very large collection, and they’re very important works, and we really have emptied the gallery for some of the best pieces we have here in Taipei.“

The exhibition will be open for the public from June 26 to August 29.

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