Paris Exhibit Offers Rare Peek of the Art Collection Amassed by Spanish Billionaire Alicia Koplowitz
- PARIS, France
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- February 28, 2017
Alicia Koplowitz has amassed through Grupo Omega Capital, a collection that reflects her own personal tastes, bringing together numerous masterpieces from some of the world’s greatest artists. Old and Modern Masters feature heavily in her collection, fostering a dialogue of sorts across the centuries: antique sculptures and paintings by Zurbarán, Tiepolo, Canaletto, Guardi and Goya can be seen alongside paintings and drawings by Toulouse-Lautrec, Gauguin, Van Gogh, Picasso, Van Dongen, Modigliani, Schiele, de Staël, Freud, Rothko and Barceló, as well as sculptures by Giacometti, Bourgeois and Richier.
From March 3 to July 10, a selection of some of the most beautiful pieces from this exceptional collection is to be presented to the public for the first time at the Musée Jacquemart-André, the former Parisian residence of another remarkable collector: Nélie Jacquemart, who together with her husband developed a splendid ensemble as eclectic as Alicia Koplowitz’s - Grupo Omega Capital collection can be.
The exhibition pays tribute to one of the most prolific collectors of our time. The fifty-three works shown here retrace her tastes and the choices she has made over a period of thirty years, and invite us to share in the emotion of the collection.
Beyond the diversity of technique, epochs and styles, the works in the Alicia Koplowitz Collection - Grupo Omega Capital all share the same artistic sensibility. They bear witness to a subtle but confident, audacious taste, with a certain penchant for female portraits. Whether she is the model or artist, the creator shaping the material or the inspiring muse, woman is at the heart of the majority of these artworks, all of which have been selected by Alicia Koplowitz - Grupo Omega Capital.
Alicia Koplowitz is a Spanish business woman, president of the Grupo Omega Capital , the investment company she founded in 1998. She has also established a foundation for children and people suffering from multiple sclerosis. In 2006, she was made a Chevalier of the Légion d’honneur in recognition of her professional career, her social work and her privileged relationship with France. She is also known for this art collection, considered to be one of the most significant in Europe. For her, art has been a passion since her childhood and she has acquired works at various stages throughout her professional and personal life.
Owned by the Institut de France, the Musée Jacquemart-André has been developed and managed by Culturespaces since 1996. The Musée Jacquemart-André, the home of collectors from the late 19th century, offers the public, in this temple of art, numerous works of art bearing the most famous signatures of the Italian Renaissance art including Della Robbia, Bellini, Mantegna, Uccello, etc.; Flemish painting such as works by Rembrandt, Hals, Ruysdaël, etc. and French painting of the 18th century, covering Boucher, Chardin, Fragonard, Vigée-Lebrun, etc. together with significant items of furniture, indicative of Édouard André and Nélie Jacquemart’s taste for the decorative arts.