Trees in French Landscape Paintings, 1850 to 1920 – From Corot to Monet, Pissarro and Matisse

Sompo Museum of Art

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Félix Vallotton, Gustave Caillebotte, Maurice Denis, Claude Monet, Camille Coro, Léo Gausson

With a focus on Impressionist paintings, this exhibition explores the evolution of French modern landscape paintings, using trees as the motif. This exhibition traces the roles trees have played in the history of French landscape paintings, beginning with the Romantic and Barbizon schools, followed by Impressionism and up until Fauvism. Painters depicted trees as the independent subject of their paintings, carefully showing the light filtered through and the shadows cast by the trees, construing their colors and shapes as elements of their paintings. Through a display of nearly 110 works from mainly French museums, as well as museums and private collections from Japan and around the world, this exhibition evokes the painters’ strong fascination with trees and examines how their depictions of trees changed over time.

Schedule	Apr 16 (Sat) 2016-Jun 26 (Sun) 2016  Opening Hours Information Hours 10:00-18:00 Closed Monday Open on a public holiday Monday but closed on the following day. Closed during the New Year holidays and in between exhibitions. Notice Closed on Mondays.
Fee	Adults ¥1200, University & High School Students ¥800, 65 & Over ¥1000, Junior High Students & Younger Free
Website	http://www.sjnk-museum.org/en/program_en/3754.html
Venue	Sompo Museum of Art https://www.sompo-museum.org/en/
Location	1-26-1 Nishi-shinjuku, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo 160-8338 Open with a Map App
Access	5 minute walk from the West exit of Shinjuku Station on the JR, Keio or Odakyu line. 5 minute walk from exit A15 at Shinjuku Station on the Marunouchi line. 5 minute walk from the West exit of Shinjuku-nishiguchi Station on the Toei Oedo line.
Phone	050-5541-8600
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