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Impressionism/Post-Impressionism
Andre Derain, The Turning Road, L´Estaque, 1906, 74.138
Gift of Audrey Jones Beck
© 2007 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York/ADAGP, Paris
The John A. and Audrey Jones Beck Collection presents the revolutionary Paris art movements of the late 19th and 20th centuries—from Impressionism and Pointillism to Fauvism and Cubism.
Focusing on the artistic innovations of late-19th-century Paris, the Becks acquired remarkable examples of Impressionism, Post-Impressionist styles, and early Modernism. Among the highlights are paintings by Gustave Caillebotte, André Derain, Édouard Manet, Camille Pissarro, Henri Matisse, Georges Seurat, and Pierre Bonnard. Mrs. Beck´s love for this period of art began in 1938, but it was not until the early 1960s that she began acquiring these modern masters. Following Mr. Beck´s death in 1974, Mrs. Beck lent her collection to the MFAH. Over the years, she gradually gave these paintings to the museum, completing this supremely generous gift with the balance of the collection in 1998. Mrs. Beck died in 2003, but her gift to the museum remains one of the largest, most important, and most valuable in the museum´s history.
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