French Art to 1960
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Glasgow Museums has a collection of around 400 French artworks, which date from 1800 to 1950. This significant collection comprises approximately 340 oil paintings and pastels and 60 drawings and watercolours. These represent many of the major schools and movements of the period, including the Barbizon School, Pre-Impressionism, Impressionism, Neo-Impressionism, Fauvism and Cubism. It contains internationally important works by artists such as Vincent van Gogh, Camille Corot, Honoré Daumier, Gustave Courbet, Jules Bastien-Lepage, Camille Pissarro, Claude Monet, Edouard Vuillard and Georges Seurat. Other significant artists in the collection include Manet, Rousseau, Degas, Cézanne, Vuillard, Sisley, Renoir, Cassatt, Gauguin, Bernard, Signac, Luce and Géricault. There is also a fine group of modern works including Derain’s ‘Blackfriars Bridge, London’, Picasso’s ‘The Flower Seller’ and Matisse’s ‘Oriental Girl’, and representative works by Marquet, Camoin, Dufy, Rouault and Utrillo. Notably, this collection encompasses Sir William Burrell’s collection of 19th century French art, which is significant due to its concentration of works by individual artists.
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