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Exhibition Review
Hilma af Klint
02/2025 | 1463 | 167
Pages: 183–185
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Reviewer:
Müller-Westermann, Iris (Müller-Westermann, Iris)
Subjects
artists:
Klint, Hilma af
dates:
2020-2030
museums and institutions:
Guggenheim Museum Bilbao, Bilbao, Spain
subjects:
Swedish painting / Women artists / Spiritualism / Spirituality / Occultism
Reviewed Items
subjects:
Hilma af Klint Guggenheim Museum Bilbao 18th October 2024–2nd February 2025 | :
Illustrations
Attributed works:
22. Group IV, the ten largest, no.6, adulthood, by Hilma af Klint. 1907. Tempera on paper, mounted on canvas, 315 by 234 cm. (Hilma af Klint Foundation, Stockholm; exh. Guggenheim Museum Bilbao).
Attributed works:
23. Group IX/ SUW, the swan, no.12, by Hilma af Klint. 1915. Oil on canvas, 151.5 by 151 cm. (Hilma af Klint Foundation, Stockholm; exh. Guggenheim Museum Bilbao).
Attributed works:
24. Group X, no.1, altarpiece, by Hilma af Klint. 1915. Oil and metal leaf on canvas, 237.5 by 179.5 cm. (Hilma af Klint Foundation, Stockholm; exh. Guggenheim Museum Bilbao).
Exhibition Review
Gothic Modern: From Darkness to Light
01/2025 | 1462 | 167
Pages: 55-7
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Reviewer:
Kokkinen, Nina (Kokkinen, Nina)
Subjects
dates:
2020-2030
museums and institutions:
Ateneum Art Museum, Helsinki, Finland
subjects:
Medieval art / Modern art / Mysticism / Spirituality / Spiritualism
Reviewed Items
subjects:
Gothic Modern: From Darkness to Light Ateneum Art Museum, Helsinki 4th October 2024–26th January 2025 | :
Illustrations
Attributed works:
25. Installation view of Gothic Modern: From Darkness to Light at the Ateneum Art Museum, Helsinki, 2024, showing Man and woman, by Ejnar Nielsen. 1917–19. Oil on canvas, 305.5 by 177 cm. (Statens Museum for Kunst, Copenhagen; exh. Ateneum Art Museum, Helsinki).
Attributed works:
26. Lucretia, by Lucas Cranach the Elder. 1530. Tempera on panel, 38 by 24.5 cm. (Sinebrychoff Art Museum, Helsinki; exh. Ateneum Art Museum, Helsinki).
Attributed works:
27. By the deathbed, by Edvard Munch. 1896. Lithograph, 39.5 by 50 cm. (Finnish National Gallery; exh. Ateneum Art Museum, Helsinki).
Exhibition Review
Musée d’Art et de Culture Soufis MTO (MACS MTO)
12/2024 | 1461 | 166
Pages: 1261–3
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Reviewer:
Babaie, Susan (Babaie, Susan)
Subjects
dates:
2020-2030
museums and institutions:
Musée d’Art et de Culture Soufis MTO (MACS MTO), Chatou, France
subjects:
Islamic art / Sufism / Spirituality
Reviewed Items
subjects:
Musée d’Art et de Culture Soufis MTO (MACS MTO) Chatou, France From 28th September | :
Illustrations
Attributed works:
30. La clef d’huître, by Bianca Bondi. 2022. Fragments from the canals of the city of Sète, key, gypsophila and leather glove, 14 by 8 by 10 cm. (Courtesy of the artist and mor charpentier gallery, Paris).
Non-western art unattributed:
28. Mihrab with the Throne Verse from the Qur’an. Late 20th century. Polychromeglazed ceramic, mirror and plaster. (Musée d’Art et de Culture Soufis MTO, Paris).
Non-western art unattributed:
29. Kashkūl with portraits and names of the Five Infallibles. Iran, early 20th century. Tin-plated, embossed and engraved metal with copperalloy fixtures and a ferrous metal chain, 15 by 26 by 17.5 cm. (Musée d’Art et de Culture Soufis MTO, Paris).
Exhibition Review
James Tissot: Ambiguously Modern
07/2020 | 1408 | 162
Pages: 603-606
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Reviewer:
Corbeau-Parsons, Caroline (Corbeau-Parsons, Caroline)
Subjects
artists:
Tissot, James
dates:
1870-1909
museums and institutions:
Musée d'Orsay, Paris, France / California Palace of the Legion of Honor, San Francisco, United States
places:
Paris / London
subjects:
French art / Fashion / Spirituality / Women / Bible stories
Reviewed Items
subjects:
James Tissot: Ambiguously Modern Musée d’Orsay, Paris 23rd June–13th September | :
Illustrations
Attributed works:
1. October, by James Tissot. 1877. Oil on canvas, 216 by 108.7 cm. (Montreal Museum of Fine Arts; exh. Musée d’Orsay, Paris).
Attributed works:
2. Annunciation, by James Tissot. c.1886– 94. Opaque watercolour over graphite on grey wove paper, 17 by 21.7 cm. (Brooklyn Museum; exh. Legion of Honor, San Francisco; Bridgeman Images).
Attributed works:
3. Self-portrait, by James Tissot. c.1865. Oil on panel, 49.8 by 30.2 cm. (Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco; exh. Musée d’Orsay, Paris).
Attributed works:
4. The ladies of the cars, by James Tissot. c.1883–85. Oil on canvas, 146.1 by 100.7 cm. (Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence; exh. Musée d’Orsay, Paris).
Book Review
A Soul’s Journey: Franciscan Art, Theology, and Devotion in the ‘Supplicationes variae'
06/2020 | 1407 | 162
Pages: 542-543
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Reviewer:
Renner, John (Renner, John )
Subjects
dates:
1250-1299
media:
Illuminated manuscripts
places:
Genoa
subjects:
Franciscans / Religious art / Early Italian art / Spirituality / Religious art
Reviewed Items
subjects:
A Soul’s Journey: Franciscan Art, Theology, and Devotion in the ‘Supplicationes variae’ By Amy Neff. 354 pp. incl. 245 col. ills. (Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies (PIMS), Toronto, 2019),  150. ISBN 978–0–88844–210–9. | :
Illustrations
Western art unattributed:
1. Christ’s ascent to the Cross, from the Supplicationes variae, by the Life of Christ Atelier. 1293. Tinted drawing on parchment, 27 by 19.5 cm. (Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana, Florence, MS Plut.25.3, fol.376r).
Exhibition Review
Agnes Pelton: Desert Transcendentalist
06/2020 | 1407 | 162
Pages: 537-539
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Reviewer:
Swartz, Anne (Swartz, Anne)
Subjects
artists:
Pelton (1881–1961), Agnes
dates:
2020-2030
places:
Taos / California
subjects:
American art / Spirituality / Occultism / Women artists / Landscapes (visual works)
Reviewed Items
subjects:
Agnes Pelton: Desert Transcendentalist Whitney Museum of American Art, New York 13th March–28th June | :
Illustrations
Attributed works:
20. Orbits, by Agnes Pelton. 1934. Oil on canvas, 92.1 by 76.2 cm. (Oakland Museum of California; exh. Whitney Museum of American Art, New York).
Attributed works:
21. Departure, by Agnes Pelton. 1952. Oil on canvas, 61 by 45.7 cm. (Private collection; photograph by Paul Salveson; exh. Whitney Museum of American Art, New York).
Attributed works:
Future, by Agnes Pelton. 1941. Oil on canvas, 76.2 by 66 cm. (Palm Springs Art Museum; exh. Whitney Museum of American Art, New York).
Book Review
Modernism and the Spiritual in Russian Art: New Perspectives. Edited by Louise Hardiman and Nicola Kozicharow
12/2019 | 1401 | 161
Pages: 1070
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Reviewer:
Brunson, Molly (Brunson, Molly)
Subjects
subjects:
Spirituality / Modernism / Russian art / Religion / Iconography / Soviet art
Reviewed Items
subjects:
Modernism and the Spiritual in Russian Art: New Perspectives Edited by Louise Hardiman and Nicola Kozicharow. 318 pp. incl. 89 col. ills. (Open Book Publishers, Cambridge, 2017), £24.95. ISBN 978–1–78374–339–1. | :
Exhibition Review
Madge Gill: Myrninerest William Morris Gallery, London
09/2019 | 1398 | 161
Pages: 771-773
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Reviewer:
Grant, Simon (Grant, Simon)
Subjects
artists:
Gill, Madge
dates:
2010-2019
museums and institutions:
William Morris Gallery, London, Great Britain
subjects:
Women artists / Outsider art / British art / Spirituality
Illustrations
Attributed works:
24. Untitled, by Madge Gill. Chinese ink and coloured pencil on cardboard, 17.8 by 23 cm. (Collection de l’Art Brut, Lausanne; photograph Amélie Blanc; exh. William Morris Gallery, London).
Attributed works:
25. Madge Gill displays an untitled piece in coloured ink on calico, Plashet Grove, East Ham, London. 1947. (Courtesy Westwood/ Paul Popper/ Popperfoto/ Getty Images).
Attributed works:
26. Newly discovered embroideries by Madge Gill. 2018. (Courtesy Sophie Dutton; photograph Kate Peters).
Attributed works:
27. Untitled, by Madge Gill. Cotton, 92 by 78 cm. (Collection de l’Art Brut, Lausanne; photograph Jean Genoud; exh. William Morris Gallery, London).
Exhibition Review
Emma Kunz: Visionary Drawings. Muzeum Susch, Zernez
08/2019 | 1397 | 161
Pages: 681-685
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Reviewer:
Mundy, Jennifer (Mundy, Jennifer)
Subjects
artists:
Kunz, Emma
museums and institutions:
Muzeum Susch, Zernez, Switzerland
subjects:
Spirituality / Abstract art
subjects:
Visions
Illustrations
Attributed works:
21. Marigolds polarised, by Emma Kunz. 1953. Photograph. (Courtesy Emma Kunz Zentrum; exh. Muzeum Susch, Zernez).
Attributed works:
22. Work No. 190, by Emma Kunz. Undated. Pencil and crayon on graph paper with brown lines, 100 by 103 cm. (Courtesy Emma Kunz Zentrum; exh. Muzeum Susch, Zernez).
Attributed works:
23. Work 104, by Emma Kunz. Undated. Pencil and crayon on graph paper with brown lines, 59 by 56 cm. (Courtesy Emma Kunz Zentrum; exh. Muzeum Susch, Zernez).
Exhibition Review
Hilma af Klint: Paintings for the Future
04/2019 | 1393 | 161
Pages: 320-323
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Reviewer:
Barratt, Martha (Barratt, Martha)
Subjects
artists:
Klint, Hilma af
dates:
2010-2019
media:
Drawings / Paintings / Watercolours
museums and institutions:
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, United States
subjects:
Swedish School / Theosophy / Spirituality / Symbols / Botanical drawings / Medicine / Abstract art / Nonrepresentational art
Illustrations
Attributed works:
1. Group I, Primordial Chaos, No. 16, from The WU/ Rose Series, by Hilma af Klint. 1906–07. Canvas, 53 by 37 cm. (Hilma af Klint Foundation, Stockholm; photograph Albin Dahlström, Moderna Museet, Stockholm; exh. Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York).
Attributed works:
2. Group IV, The Ten Largest, No. 7, Adulthood, by Hilma af Klint. 1907. Tempera on paper mounted on canvas, 315 by 235 cm. (Hilma af Klint Foundation, Stockholm; photograph Albin Dahlström, Moderna Museet, Stockholm; exh. Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York).
Attributed works:
3. Group IX/SUW, The Swan, No. 17, from The SUW/ UW Series, by Hilma af Klint. 1915. Canvas, 150.5 by 151 cm. (Hilma af Klint Foundation, Stockholm; photograph Albin Dahlström, Moderna Museet, Stockholm; exh. Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York).
Attributed works:
4. Group IX/SUW, The Swan, No. 1, from The SUW/ UW Series, by Hilma af Klint. 1915. Canvas, 150 by 150 cm. (Hilma af Klint Foundation, Stockholm; photograph Albin Dahlström, Moderna Museet, Stockholm; exh. Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York).
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