2011

Exhibitions scheduled at The Frick Collection during 2011.
Close up of a drawing of a woman's face.
Picasso's Drawings, 1890–1921: Reinventing Tradition
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Pablo Picasso (1881–1973) is generally acknowledged to be the greatest draftsman of the twentieth century.

Green porcelain teapot with orange fish decorations.
White Gold: Highlights from the Arnhold Collection of Meissen Porcelain
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New Portico Gallery Opened with Presentation of Sculpture and Selections from an Important Promised Gift of Meissen Porcelain from Henry H. Arnhold

Print of a man's head.
Rembrandt and His School: Masterworks from the Frick and Lugt Collections
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When Henry Clay Frick (1849–1919) was asked whose talents he would most like to possess, he declared: "Rembrandt's." And as the largest individual railway stockholder in the world, Frick is reported to have said that "railways are the Rembrandts of investment." Like Frick, the Dutch art historian Frederik Johannes Lugt

Oil painting of a man in red coat, holding a white stick and black hat.
The King at War: Velázquez's Portrait of Philip IV
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Painted at the height of Velázquez's career, the Frick's King Philip IV of Spain (1644) is one of the artist's consummate achievements.

Drawing of a man wearing a hat with small human figures upon it.
The Spanish Manner: Drawings from Ribera to Goya
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The greatest Spanish draftsmen from the seventeenth through the nineteenth century — Ribera, Murillo, and Goya, among them — created works of dazzling idiosyncrasy.

Marble table with male figure supports on a gold base.
Turkish Taste at the Court of Marie-Antoinette
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France has long been fascinated by the Ottoman Empire, and for hundreds of years the taste for turquerie was evident in French fashion, literature, theater and opera, painting, architecture, and interior decoration.

Oil painting of St. Francis in a landscape.
In a New Light: Bellini's St. Francis in the Desert
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One of the most familiar and beloved paintings at The Frick Collection, Giovanni Bellini’s St. Francis in the Desert (c. 1480), is also deeply enigmatic.