Thannhauser Collection from Guggenheim on View at Palazzo Reale in Milan

Palazzo Reale in Milan hosts a landmark exhibition of the Thannhauser Collection, on loan from the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York. The show spans nearly a century of modern art, from Renoir's 1871 'Donna con pappagallino' to Picasso's 1965 'Aragosta e il gatto'. It features works by Manet, Cézanne, van Gogh, Franz Marc, Rousseau, and twelve works by Picasso, including 'Fernande con la mantella nera' (1905) and 'Donna in poltrona' (1922). The collection was assembled by Justin K. Thannhauser, a gallerist whose family gallery in Munich was closed in 1937 due to Nazi persecution of 'degenerate art'. He later moved to Paris and bequeathed the collection to the Guggenheim in 1963. Many of these masterpieces are exhibited in Europe for the first time. The installation is deliberately sparse to focus attention on the artworks, which trace the evolution from Impressionism to Cubism and beyond.