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PAST EXHIBITION

oil painting depicting two men standing, one man seated on ground
Bellini and Giorgione in the House of Taddeo Contarini
November 9, 2023 to February 4, 2024
Bellini’s St. Francis in the Desert and Giorgione’s Three Philosophers were once displayed in the same Venetian palazzo—the house of the Renaissance collector Taddeo Contarini. This exhibition brings them together for the first time in centuries, providing an unprecedented opportunity for audiences to see them in dialogue.

PAST EXHIBITION

oil painting of woman with one arm crossed against gold background
Barkley L. Hendricks: Portraits at the Frick
September 21, 2023 to January 7, 2024
This presentation celebrates the remarkable figurative work of Barkley L. Hendricks (1945–2017) through a focused selection of portraiture drawn from private and public collections. This pioneering American artist, who counted the Frick among his favorite museums, continues to inspire artists and designers today.

Past Exhibition

pencil drawing of seated man with leg crossed atop his knee
The Eveillard Gift
October 13, 2022 to February 26, 2023

This exhibition presents a remarkable promised gift of European works on paper. Along with figurative sketches, independent studies, and portraits are two vivid landscape scenes. Artists include Boucher, Caillebotte, Degas, Fragonard, Goya, Sargent, and Vigée Le Brun.

Past Exhibition

white ceramic disk painted with thin, gray concentric circles and a gray fingerprint
Propagazioni: Giuseppe Penone at Sèvres
March 17, 2022 to August 28, 2022
This installation by Giuseppe Penone (b. 1947), a key figure in the Arte Povera movement, marks the public debut of objects created during a collaboration with the Sèvres Porcelain Manufactory. Penone’s works can be seen in dialogue with the Frick’s rich holdings in the medium.

Past Exhibition

bronze statue of young man bearing shield and club
Bertoldo di Giovanni: The Renaissance of Sculpture in Medici Florence
September 18, 2019 to January 12, 2020

The Frick Collection presented the first-ever exhibition on the Florentine sculptor Bertoldo di Giovanni (ca. 1440–1491), a renowned student of Donatello, a teacher of Michelangelo, and a great favorite of Lorenzo “il Magnifico” de’ Medici, his principal patron.

Past Exhibition

oil painting of Perseus and Andromeda riding Pegasus through the sky
Tiepolo in Milan: The Lost Frescoes of Palazzo Archinto
April 16, 2019 to July 14, 2019

The Frick Collection presented a selection of paintings, drawings, prints, and photographs related to Giambattista Tiepolo’s first significant project outside of Venice, a series of ceiling frescoes for Palazzo Archinto in Milan that were destroyed during World War II.

Past Exhibition

photo of white sculpture piece in front of oil painting of standing young woman in the Frick Collection gallery
Elective Affinities: Edmund de Waal at The Frick Collection
May 30, 2019 to November 17, 2019
The Frick Collection presented a temporary installation of the work of sculptor Edmund de Waal — a rich juxtaposition of site-specific objects displayed in the main galleries of the museum, alongside works from the permanent collection.

Past Exhibition

alabaster and glazed bronze sculpture of standing woman, with headdress of vines
Luigi Valadier: Splendor in Eighteenth-Century Rome
October 31, 2018 to January 20, 2019

Of the many artists who flourished in Rome during the eighteenth century, the silversmith Luigi Valadier (1726–1785) was particularly admired by popes, royalty, and aristocrats across Europe. Luigi Valadier: Splendor in Eighteenth-Century Rome, curated by Alvar González-Palacios, brought together more than sixty extraordinary works by the renowned silversmith in celebration of his unsurpassed technical expertise and avant-garde aesthetic.

Past Exhibition

Round medal by Pisanello showing portrait bust of Leonello d'Este
The Pursuit of Immortality: Masterpieces from the Scher Collection of Portrait Medals
May 9, 2017 to September 10, 2017

Celebrating the largest acquisition in the Frick’s history, a gift of approximately 450 portrait medals from the incomparable collection of Stephen K. and Janie Woo Scher, the exhibition explored one of the most important artistic inventions of the Renaissance. The selection showcased superlative examples by masters of the medium — many of whom were also celebrated painters, sculptors, and printmakers — from Pisanello in the Italian Renaissance to Pierre-Jean David d’Angers in nineteenth-century France, honoring medals as integral to the history of portraiture in Western art and as a triumph of sculpture on a small scale.

Past Exhibition

oil painting of group, including men and angels, seated on earthen floor
Divine Encounter: Rembrandt’s Abraham and the Angels
May 26, 2017 to August 20, 2017

On loan from a private collection, Rembrandt's Abraham Entertaining the Angels of 1646 was the centerpiece of a small exhibition dedicated to the artist's depictions of Abraham and his various encounters with God and his angels, as recounted in the book of Genesis. In the painting and in the other works included in the show — a tightly focused selection of prints and drawings and a single copper plate — Rembrandt explored, in different media, the nature of divine presence and the ways it was perceived.

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