Pierre-Auguste Renoir, “La Parisienne,†1874, oil on canvas. National Museum of Wales; Gwendoline E. Davies bequest, 1951. Courtesy American Federation of Arts.

From January 30 to April 30, the Corcoran Gallery of Art will present “Turner to Cézanne: Masterpieces from the Davies Collection, National Museum Wales,” organized by the American Federation of Arts and National Museum Wales. “Turner to Cézanne” features a group of Nineteenth and Twentieth Century paintings and works on paper from National Museum Wales, which has an internationally acclaimed collection of Impressionist and Post-Impressionist art assembled largely between 1908 and 1923 by Welsh sisters Gwendoline and Margaret Davies.

The exhibition features more than 50 works †most of which have never been on view in the United States †including masterpieces by Paul Cézanne, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot, Honoré Daumier, Augustus John, Edouard Manet, Jean-François Millet, J.M.W. Turner, Vincent van Gogh, Camille Pissarro and Claude Monet.

The works in the exhibit have been drawn exclusively from the collection of the Davies sisters, who actively sought to collect works that reflected the major movements of the time. They collected during a crucial moment in the history of art, when European painting was undergoing a revolution in style, theme and technique.

Paul Cézanne, “The François Zola Dam,†circa 1877‷8, oil on canvas. National Museum of Wales; Gwendoline E. Davies bequest, 1951. Courtesy American Federation of Arts.

“Turner to Cézanne” traces the evolution of early Modern art, beginning with examples of dramatic Romanticism exemplified by Turner through the expressionist Post-Impressionism of van Gogh. Spanning the late Nineteenth and early Twentieth Centuries, it contains masterworks of Realism, Naturalism, Impressionism and Post-Impressionism by their greatest exponents.

Works on view include Millet’s dramatic “The Gust of Wind,” 1871‱873; van Gogh’s “Rain⁁uvers,” 1890, completed just weeks prior to his death; Cézanne’s once-controversial “The François Zola Dam,” circa 1877‱878; and Renoir’s “La Parisienne,” 1874, a figure who represents the era’s shifting sense of modernity.

A full-color catalog, Turner to Cézanne: Masterpieces from the Davies Collection, National Museum, Wales, features essays by Colin B. Bailey, Paul Greenhalgh and Oliver Fairclough, as well as catalog entries by Bethany McIntyre and Bryony Dawkes.

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