In Our Galleries

Lyonel Feininger: From Manhattan to the Bauhaus

January 21 to May 13, 2012
$ Admission Fee
Michal and Renata Hornstein Pavilion

This exhibition, the first major retrospective devoted to Lyonel Feininger (1871-1956) in North America in almost fifty years, will offer a comprehensive panorama of the oeuvre of this American artist of German descent: oils, watercolours, woodcuts, political cartoons, playful sculptures and little-known photographs. His animated and colourful paintings of the 1910s reveal his early work as a caricaturist.

Lyonel Feininger (1871-1956),
Yellow Street II,
1918,
oil on canvas,
95 x 86.1 cm.
MMFA, purchase, gift of The Maxwell Cummings Family Foundation, The Montreal Museum of Fine Arts’ Volunteer Association,John G. McConnell, C.B.E., Mr. and Mrs. A. Murray Vaughan, Harold Lawson Bequest, and Horsley and Annie Townsend Bequest.
© The Lyonel Feininger Family LLC / SODRAC (2012)

Resolute Bay - The Daytime Journey in the Night

November 6, 2011 to April 8, 2012

Jean-Noël Desmarais Pavilion

Since their first stay in Resolute Bay in the summer of 2004, Louis Couturier and Jacky Georges Lafargue have maintained a unique artistic dialogue with the hamlet's community, of which this exhibition is the latest expression. Through the use of documentation, interviews, photography and land surveys, the artists have helped members of this remote community stamped by history give expression to the reality of their lives. In the winter of 2006, they set up in a public space in Resolute Bay ahuge outdoor screen made of snow upon which they projected images, taken in 2004, of the village's long summer days. The work on view at the Museum is the counterpart to that first presentation, since it brings Resolute Bay life right into the heart of an urban society. It's sculptural component is entitled Qausuittuq, the Inuit name for Resolute Bay, which means the “place with no dawn.” The qamutiik* (sled) comes from Inukjuak in Quebec's Nunavik region, just like the first inhabitants of Resolute Bay. It is loaded with twenty-four crates containing pictures of Qausuittuq.

Dorothea Rockburne : In My Mind's Eye

November 6, 2011 to April 1, 2012

Jean-Noël Desmarais Pavilion

This retrospective featuring fifty of Dorothea Rockburne's works will reveal the development of a Montreal artist’s abstraction abroad.

Napoleon

GIFT OF THE BEN WEIDER COLLECTION
TO THE MONTREAL MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS

Free Free Admission
Jean-Noël Desmarais Pavilion
Level 3

Thanks to Ben Weider's major gift of his Napoleonic collection, the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts inaugurated galleries devoted to Napoleon and to the First Empire on October 23, 2008. Mr. Weider was committed to having this outstanding collection remain in Montreal. It will henceforth be presented at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, where it will enrich the Museum's collection and Canadian heritage as a whole. These galleries feature a collection of a hundred works and objects, some rare and unique, associated with Napoleon and the arts under the First Empire. Other gifts and loans of works related to this period, in particular objects from the collections of the Honourable Serge Joyal, p.c., o.c., Paul G. Desmarais and Power Corporation of Canada, Roger Prigent, and Élaine Bédard and Alexandre de Bothuri Bàthory, are also on display. These galleries will present one of the leading collections devoted to Napoleon in North America.