Master Artworks From Private Collections

Monday, 22 August 2005 10:04

ROSLYN HARBOR, NY.-The Nassau County Museum of Art presents Master Artworks From Private Collection. Master Artworks from Private Collections takes viewers behind the closed doors of some of the New York metropolitan area’s most important private art collections. Visiting the homes of always proud, and often, secretive collectors, Nassau County Museum of Art’s curators, Constance Schwartz and Franklin Hill Perrell, have gathered rare treasures for this exhibition, most of them not seen before by the public. Included in Master Artworks from Private Collections, are works by Impressionist and Modern masters such as Monet, Renoir, Bonnard, Matisse, Picasso, de Chirico, Utrilllo, Chagall, Léger, Dubuffet and many more. Americans represented in the show include Chase, Wyeth, Henri, Sloan, de Kooning, Lichtenstein and others. The works selected by Schwartz and Perrell span centuries of art history — from Brueghel’s (Pieter the Younger) The Peasant Wedding of 1623 to some of the most intriguing art being produced today. The most explosive growth of art values and connoisseurship has occurred within the private arena. Burgeoning interest in art collecting and the increasing scarcity of important works has resulted in dramatic rises in the prices of art. The major acquisitions being made by New York’s private collectors offer testament to New York’s centrality as the art capital of the world. The works on view in Master Artworks from Private Collections afford a sense of the impact of many phases of art movements, spanning several centuries of diverse areas of collecting interest.

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