Exhibitions organised by the Fondation Custodia

Wednesday 12th May - Sunday 11th July 2010
Un cabinet particulier
Les estampes de la Collection Frits Lugt
The print collection of the Frits Lugt Collection is one of the most beautiful of its kind assembled during the twentieth century. Un cabinet particulier presents for the first time an overview of this rich collection. It shows a selection of more than 85 works, the majority of which has never been shown before, and is organised according to the themes that have guided Frits Lugt (1884-1970) and his successors in assembling the collection.

One of these is that of the engraved portrait, of which a number of rare impressions by Dutch and French masters have been selected. Among the landscapes the Netherlandish School is very well represented with works ranging from Pieter Bruegel the Elder to Jacob van Ruisdael, permitting to follow the evolution of the landscape print. Also shown are selections from the engravings by Lucas van Leyden in the collection, as well as from the etchings by Rembrandt which Lugt managed to assemble nearly completely. The exhibition offers an overview of the art of the print in all its diversity. Among the range of techniques represented special mention must be made of the chiaroscuro woodcut, a complex technique that often makes use of astonishing colours. Finally, a number of 19th and 20th century prints are being shown, notably one of the most beautiful etchings by James McNeill Whistler, Rotherhithe.

The exhibition, the subject of which has been kept secret until its very opening, is organized in honour of Mària van Berge-Gerbaud, director of the Fondation Custodia, who retires in June 2010. It is accompanied by a richly illustrated scientific catalogue in French with an introductory essay by Jan Piet Filedt Kok. Publishing and distribution www.architectura.nl.
 
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Wednesday 12th May - Sunday 4th July 2010
Hommage à l’art du dessin. Une sélection de dessins de la Collection Frits Lugt par Paul van der Eerden complété d’un choix de dessins contemporains

Paul van der Eerden, Without title, 1997
Pencil- 297 x 210 mm
Joke Becu collection, Rotterdam
At the invitation of the Institut Néerlandais the Dutch artist Paul van der Eerden assembled a selection of drawings of the Frits Lugt Collection, which he completed with works by international contemporary artist from Dutch collections, and by his own creations.
 
By this means Paul van der Eerden pays homage to the art of drawing in general, to the Frits Lugt Collection and in particular to its director Mària van Berge-Gerbaud, who steps down from office in May 2010.
 
His choice led him towards works little known to the large public: a schematic Indian miniature, the backside of a drawing by Hendrick Avercamp, an unorthodox Rembrandt as well as about twenty magnificent drawings of the Italian school, of which several are dated as early as the fifteenth century.
 
This eleventh exposition-dossier is an unexpected encounter between ancient and contemporary art.
 
The exhibition will be accompanied by a richly illustrated catalogue, with a text by Jonas Storsve, curator of the Drawings department of the Centre Pompidou, and an interview of Paul van der Eerden with Mària van Berge-Gerbaud (Edition Le Passage www.lepassage-editions.fr / www.paulvandereerden.nl).
 
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Recent publications initiated by the Fondation Custodia
 
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2008  
Marcello, sculpteur, une intellectuelle dans l’ombre. La correspondance entre la duchesse Castiglione Colonna, dite Marcello, et le Père Gratry, oratorien (1859-1869) dans la collection Frits Lugt, by Christine Dotal.
Ecrits d’artistes de la Collection Frits Lugt, vol. 1. Publication with complete and annotated transcriptions of the letters.

 
2008  
Dessins nordiques des collections Jean Bonna & Frits Lugt. Œuvres choisies
Publication with catalogue, under the direction of Mària van Berge-Gerbaud, for the Exposition-Dossier IX, Dessins nordiques des collections Jean Bonna & Frits Lugt. Le Choix d’un collectionneur, held at the Institut Néerlandais, Paris, 27 April – 4 May 2008

 
2008  
Rembrandt Etchings from the Frits Lugt Collection, by Erik Hinterding. Two volumes (vol. I: catalogue; vol. II: illustrations)
 
2008  
Paysages de France dessinés par Lambert Doomer et les artistes hollandais et flamands des XVIe et XVIIe siècles, by Stijn Alsteens and Hans Buijs.With colour illustrations.
 
2008  
Bruegel, Rubens et leurs contemporains. Dessins nordiques du Musée des Offices à Florence, by Bert Meijer [red.] (catalogue of the exhibition held at the Institut Néerlandais, Paris, 1st October – 30th November 2008)
 
2008  
Les arts graphiques : Restauration/Recherche. Journée d'études en l'honneur de Carlo James. In collaboration with the INP (Institut national du patrimoine).
Collection of papers based on the presentations made at the symposium organized on 27th May 2005.

 
2009  
Tableaux Flamands et Hollandais du Musée des Beaux-Arts de Rouen by Diederik Bakhuÿs, Jasper Hillegers and Cécile Tainturier.
Catalogue accompanying the exhibition Maîtres du Nord. Tableaux du Musée des Beaux-Arts de Rouen held at the Institut Néerlandais, Paris, November 19th 2009 – January 24th 2010.

 
2009  
De Watteau à Degas: dessins français de la Collection Frits Lugt by Colin B. Bailey, Susan Grace Galassi and Mària van Berge-Gerbaud.
Catalogue accompanying the exhibition of the same name held at The Frick Collection, New York, October 6th 2009 – January 10th 2010 and at the Institut Néerlandais, Paris, February 11th 2010 – April 11th 2010.

 
2010  
Charley Toorop. Dessins. Lettres.
Exposition-dossier X, Catalogue accompanying the exhibition Charley Toorop privée held at the Hôtel Turgot, Institut Néerlandais, Paris, Februaryi 18th – April 11th 2010.

 
2010  
Hommage à l’art du dessin. Une sélection de dessins de la Collection Frits Lugt par Paul van der Eerden complété d’un choix de dessins contemporains
Exposition-dossier XI, Catalogue accompanying the exhibition wit the same name at the Institut Néerlandais, Paris, May 11th – July 4th 2010

 
2010  
Un cabinet particulier. Les estampes de la Collection Frits Lugt
by Stijn Alsteens, Holm Bevers, Rhea Sylvia Blok, Hans Buijs, Jan Piet Filedt Kok, Peter Fuhring, Anthony Griffiths, Freek Heijbroek, Erik Hinterding, Ger Luijten, Maxime Préaud, Martin Royalton-Kisch, Peter Schatborn, Cécile Tainturier and Ilja M. Veldman. With an essay by Peter Schatborn. Edited by Hans Buijs.
Catalogue accompanying the exhibition of the same name held at the Institut Néerlandais, Paris, May 11th 2010 – July 11th 2010.

 
2010  
Antiquities from the Frits Lugt Collection
Series of three publications which can be purchased as a set or separately
 
Greek vases in the Frits Lugt Collection
By Thomas Mannack & Claudia Wagner
 
Egyptian artefacts in the Frits Lugt Collection
By Arnold Jan Stuart
 
Ancient glass and various antiquities in the Frits Lugt Collection
By Ruurd Binnert Halbertsma