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“Frédéric Bruly Bouabré: World Unbound,” @t

“Frédéric Bruly Bouabré: World Unbound,” @themuseumofmodernart (MoMA) in New York, is the first survey of Bouabré’s work, and the first exhibition at MoMA devoted to an Ivorian artist. The exhibit features more than 1,000 drawings covering the artist’s immense production from the 1970s until his death in 2014. A highlight of the exhibition is the Alphabet Bété—Bouabré’s invention of the first writing system for the Bété people, an ethnic group in present-day Côte d’Ivoire to which the artist belonged. Also on view are hundreds of postcard-size illustrations that he drew on cardboard packages of hair products he salvaged from his neighborhood in Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire’s economic capital. This impressive exhibition is on view until August 13.
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(Image: Frédéric Bruly Bouabré, “Ô, Dear black power, if you sit on “world trone”, let “God” to lead peacefully your heart, in love of human kind of all colour: Aie l’amour de toute humaine couleur!!!!” colored pencil, pencil, and ballpoint pen on board, The Museum of Modern Art, New York. © 2022 Family of Frédéric Bruly Bouabré)
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“Venice in the 1700s,” at the Minneapolis Inst

“Venice in the 1700s,” at the Minneapolis Institute of Art, celebrates the recent acquisition of @artsmia first outstanding Francesco Guardi drawing. The exhibit focuses on how Guardi and two fellow artists of the period, Antonio Canale (known as Canaletto) and Giambattista Tiepolo, captured the spirit and essence of Venice with their drawings and prints. You can catch the exhibition until October 16.
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(Image: Francesco Guardi, “The Return of the Buncintoro from S. Nicolò di Lido (detail),” pen and brown ink and wash, over black chalk, Minneapolis Institute of Art)
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Learn about seventeenth-century Dutch artists and

Learn about seventeenth-century Dutch artists and their travels in a lecture by Jane Shoaf Turner, Editor of MASTER DRAWINGS, and former head of the Rijksprentenkabinet at the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam. The in-person presentation, taking place at our partner institution, @harvardartmuseums on Tuesday May 24th from 4:00pm – 5:30pm, coincides with the opening of “Crossroads: Drawing the Dutch Landscape.” On view through August 14, the exhibition explores the profusion of local landscape imagery that occurred in the 17th century, just as the Dutch Republic was expanding its colonial holdings around the world. It features works by artists such as Pieter Bruegel the Elder, Rembrandt van Rijn, Jan van Goyen, and Jacob van Ruisdael.
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The lecture is free, but seating is limited. For reservations visit https://harvardartmuseums.org/calendar/on-the-move-17th-century-dutch-artists-and-their-travels
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(Image: Lambert Doomer, “Dutch, View of Rouen with Mont Sainte-Catherine,” brown ink, brown and gray wash, green transparent watercolor, and touches of white chalk, Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts)
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The seventeenth-century Flemish artist, Peter Paul

The seventeenth-century Flemish artist, Peter Paul Rubens is well-known for his religious and mythological works. But many may not be aware that he was also a significant art collector. This important part of Ruben’s legacy is the spotlight of today’s THROWBACK THURSDAY WITH MASTER DRAWINGS.
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In a three-part series, during the 1960’s (Vol 2:4, Vol 3:1 and Vol 4:2), the late Michael Jaffé, British art historian, curator, and noted Rubens scholar, meticulously demonstrated what motivated Rubens to become a collector. Using works by the master and other artists, Jaffé illustrated how collecting influenced Rubens’s work. In his opening essay, Jaffé points out that Rubens’ impulse to collect was primarily aesthetic and practical rather than guided by historical considerations.
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Read about other art collectors in our upcoming Fall 2022 issue of MASTER DRAWINGS. Subscribe now at https://masterdrawings.org/subscribe/
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(Image: Copy after Tadde Zuccaro, retouched by Rubens, “Last Supper,” chalk, pen, washed brown paper, Albertina Museum, Vienna)
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The 30th edition of the @salondudessin – one of

The 30th edition of the @salondudessin – one of the most significant drawings showcases of the year – opens next week at the Palais Brongniart in Paris. In addition to 39 international exhibitors, the Musée du Grand Siècle will show a selection of some fifty drawings from the Pierre Rosenberg Collection ranging from the sixteenth to the twentieth centuries. The Salon will also host an exhibition of drawings by the French garden designer Achille Duchêne from the collections of the Musée des Arts Décoratifs.
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Other exciting highlights include: an exhibition of the winners of the 15th Contemporary Drawing Prize; the International Drawing Meetings devoted to gardens and botany; and a Children’s Drawing Competition. A performance by Christelle Tea artist-draftswoman will also take place during the week. Her works will be exhibited and subsequently put on sale with the proceeds going towards the restoration of a drawn work at the Museum of Decorative Arts.
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The Salon du Dessin is on from May 18 to May 23. Tickets and more information can be found at https://www.salondudessin.com/en/home/
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