Matisse, Picasso, And Modern Art In Paris: The T. Catesby Jones Collections At The Virginia Museum Of Fine Arts And The University Of Virginia Art Museum

Description

A New York lawyer with Virginia roots, T. Catesby Jones acquired an extraordinary collection of paintings, drawings, prints, and sculptures by some sixty artists working in Paris during the early twentieth century. Jones' collection of almost three hundred works, divided between two Virginia institutions after his death, is reunited here in an illustrated catalogue with a full-color checklist accompanied by entries on twenty-four of the artists. Some are the best-known figures of this crucial era (Matisse, Picasso, Braque, Masson, Lipchitz); others are now less familiar (Lurcat, Bauchant, Marcoussis). Considered together, they provide a comprehensive view of modern art in Paris up to World War II and bring Jones' legacy to a wide audience for the first time.

Author description

John Ravenal is the Sydney and Frances Lewis Family Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts. Matthew Affron is Associate Professor of Art History at the University of Virginia and curator of contemporary art for the University of Virginia Art Museum.