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A Selection of Menil Collection Works Traveling Internationally


The Menil Collection actively lends works from the collection to exhibitions around the world.  If your travel plans include any of the following locations, you may wish to visit these exhibitions.

“Warhol Wool Newman: Painting Real”
Kunsthaus Graz, Austria
September 26, 2009–January 10, 2010
Andy Warhol, Big Electric Chair, 1967, Gift of the artist

“Arshile Gorky: A Retrospective”
Philadelphia Museum of Art
October 20, 2009–January 10, 2010
Tate Modern, London
February 10–May 3, 2010
Arshile Gorky, Dead Bird (Slingshot), 1948 (at the Philadelphia Museum of Art only); L’amour du fusil neuf (Love of the New Gun), 1944

“Against All Reason: Paris–Prague Surrealism”
Wilhelm Hack Museum, Ludwigshafen, Germany
November 14, 2009–February 14, 2010
Victor Brauner, Triomphe du doute (Triumph of Doubt), 1946; Fleur de sang (Blood Flower), 1943

“From the Private Collections of Texas: European Art, Ancient to Modern”
Kimbell Art Museum, Fort Worth
November 22, 2009–March 21, 2010
François Clouet, Equestrian Portrait of Dauphin Henry II, future Henry II King of France (1519–1559), ca. 1543; Sir Joshua Reynolds, A Young Black, ca. 1770; Pablo Picasso, Guitare sur une table (Guitar on a Table), 1920 (Paris); Fernand Léger, Nature morte, premier état (Still Life, First State), 1925; Giorgio de Chirico, Hector and Andromache, 1918

“Yves Klein”
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C.
February 11–May 23, 2010
and other venues
Yves Klein, Hiroshima, ca. 1961;
Untitled fire painting, ca. 1961; People Begin to Fly, 1961; Pluie bleue (Blue Rain), 1961, Gift of Daniel and Rotraut Moquay; Blue Monochrome, 1960

“The Silence of theWorld: De Chirico,Magritte, Balthus”
Palazzo Strozzi, Florence
February 26–July 18, 2010
René Magritte, Le sens de la nuit (The Meaning of Night), 1927; Max Ernst, Deux soeurs (Two Sisters), 1926

"René Magritte”
Museo del Palacio de Bellas Artes, Mexico City
March 11–June 27, 2010
René Magritte, La fin des contemplations (An End to Contemplation), 1927; Le palais d’une courtisane (A Courtesan’s Palace), 1928; La bonne nouvelle (The Good News), 1928; Le grand style (The Great Style), 1951, Gift of Schlumberger Ltd.; La folie des grandeurs (Megalomania), 1962; La force des choses (Force of Circumstance), 1958,Gift of Alexander Iolas; L’abandon (Surrender), 1929; Le chant des sirènes (The Sirens’ Song), 1952; Le monde invisible (The InvisibleWorld), 1954; Les origines du langage (The Origins of Language), 1955; Le manteau de Pascal (Pascal’s Coat), 1954, Gift of Heiner and Fariha Friedrich; L’aimable vérité (The Endearing Truth), 1966; Le paysage de Baucis (Baucis’s Landscape), 1966 Golconde (Golconda), 1953

“Through African Eyes: The European in African Art”
Detroit Institute of Arts
April 11–August 8, 2010
The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City
September 25, 2010–January 9, 2011
Nigeria, Portuguese Musketeer, mid- 18th century; Democratic Republic of the Congo, Crucifix, 16th–18th century; Republic of Benin, Chair with Four Felines, mid-18th century

“Surrealism: Communaicting Vessels”
Vancouver Art Gallery
May 28–September 25, 2010
Max Ernst, Day and Night, 1941–42

“Paths to Abstraction 1867–1917”
Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
June 25–September 19, 2010
Georges Seurat, Coin d’usine (Corner of a Factory), ca. 1883

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The Menil Collection foyer. Photo: Hester + Hardaway