Studiolo 1: Avigdor Arikha

The first in a new series of annual exhibitions entitled Studiolo will present a group of works from the Permanent Collection selected by a living artist. A studiolo, the diminutive of studio, was a small room in Renaissance palaces in which princes and rulers would read, reflect and contemplate carefully chosen works of art. In this first edition the painter Avigdor Arikha has been commissioned to make the choice of works. Focusing on the idea of “painting from life”, Arikha has assembled a group of paintings by Caravaggio, Titian, Degas, Cézanne and Mondrian along with works by his own hand. Arikha is a painter appreciated by a small but select public, admired by critics and by knowledgeable collectors and artists...