Richard Feigen art collection on view at Yale University Art Gallery
- June 01, 2010 13:14
Art scholar, collector, and dealer Richard L. Feigen, who owns an eponymous art gallery in New York, is sharing his renowned personal art collection for the first time with the public. Yale University Art Gallery is hosting 60 of Feigen's early Italian paintings, considered to be among the finest private collections of its kind in the world.
On view now through September 12, the exhibition features major works from the 14th through the 17th century by celebrated artists such as Fra Angelico, Lorenzo Monaco, Annibale and Ludovico Carracci, Domenichino, Guercino, and Orazio Gentileschi.
The Feigen collection consists of early Tuscan paintings to Baroque masterpieces such as "Danaë and the Shower of Gold" (1621–22) by Orazio Gentileschi. Three works by Renaissance master Fra Angelico are on view.
Early Renaissance art from Yale's permanent collection provides context for Feigen's holdings.
The exhibition is accompanied by a 192-page publication, with 97 color and 48 black-and-white illustrations, available through the Gallery’s bookstore ($55 hardcover, $35 paperback). To order, tel. 203.432.7421.
