Romanticism to Modernism: Graphic Masterpieces from Piranesi to Picasso

Fine prints have, since their origin in the 15th century, been admired for their great artistic
diversity and technical virtuosity. This exhibition presents 65
exceptional
works by prominent masters of the eighteenth, nineteenth and twentieth
century’s, including masterworks by Giovanni Battista Piranesi (Italian,
1720-1788), Francisco de Goya (Spanish, 1746-1828), and Pablo Picasso
(Spanish,
1881-1973), each of whom is celebrated for his pioneering experiments in
graphic art.

The exhibition opens with a selection of brilliant works by Piranesi, the highly influential Italian precursor of the
romantic
style, whose brooding and atmospheric series Carceri (Prisons),
1749-1760, is one of the great icons of the 18th
century. In addition, 21 notable graphic works by Picasso, including
etchings
from the Vollard Suite created
between 1930 and 1937, The 347 Series
of 1968, and Picasso’s Series 156
completed in 1971 as well as  etchings
from Goya’s The Disasters of War
(1810-20) and various lithographs, etchings, woodcuts and pochoirs by
James
McNeil Whistler (American, 1834-1903), John Taylor Arms (American,
1887-1953),  Paul Cézanne (French,
1839-1906), Pierre Auguste Renoir (French, 1841-1919), Georges Rouault
(French,
1871-1958), Paul Gauguin (French, 1848- 1903), George Braque (French,
1882-1963), Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec (French, 1864-1901), Fernand Léger
(French, 1881-1955), Joan Miró (Spanish, 1893-1983), Marc Chagall
(Russian,
1887-1985), and George Braque (French, 1881-1955).

This exhibition is organized by the Boca Raton Museum of Art.