Artists in Motion: Modern Masterpieces from the Pearlman Collection

2023-2024
Vincent van Gogh, Tarascon Stagecoach, 1888. The Henry and Rose Pearlman Foundation on loan since 1976 to the Princeton University Art Museum

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Organized by the Princeton University Art Museum in collaboration with the Henry and Rose Pearlman Foundation, the exhibition Artists in Motion: Modern Masterpieces from the Pearlman Collection explores the intersecting lives and journeys of celebrated late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century European artists. Through a selection of extraordinary works of art from the Pearlman Collection, Artists in Motion surveys the relationships that drove the experimentalism and creativity of this transformative artistic moment. The exhibition features approximately 40 paintings, sculptures, and works on paper by some of the most renowned modern artists, including Paul Cézanne, Edouard Manet, Edgar Degas, Paul Gauguin, Vincent van Gogh, Camille Pissarro, Alfred Sisley, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, Amedeo Modigliani, Chaïm Soutine, and Jacques Lipchitz. Curated by Consulting Curator Allison Unruh.

The exhibition is accompanied by a richly illustrated digital publication featuring essays, an interview, and poems that explore the themes of travel, migration, and creativity. Available for download free of charge.

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Artists in Motion: Modern Masterpieces from the Pearlman Collection is organized by the Princeton University Art Museum in collaboration with the Henry and Rose Pearlman Foundation. This exhibition is supported by an indemnity from the Federal Council on the Arts and the Humanities.

Princeton University Art Museum The Henry & Rose Pearlman Foundation

The Henry & Rose Pearlman Foundation Collection was assembled by Henry Pearlman (1895-1974), and is one of the finest such collections in private hands. Pearlman, the son of Russian immigrant parents, was born in New York City. A self-made businessman, he founded, at 24, the Eastern Cold Storage Insulation Corporation in New York, selling and installing cold storage solutions on ships and other commercial applications. In January 1945 Pearlman happened to pass the window of a Manhattan auction house, and spotted a Chaim Soutine landscape. Enchanted by the painting, he made a successful bid for the work - View of Céret (1921-22), on view in this exhibition – and that purchase triggered a passion for collecting that endured for the rest of his life. He thrived on the thrill of the hunt and uncovering hidden masterworks, learning about the social bonds among artists and their mutual aesthetic influences. The Pearlman Collection has been on loan to the Princeton University Art Museum since the mid-1970s.

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