Past Exhibition

Encounters with Modern Art

Angular, geometric shapes in charcoal and smoke black, pewter and silver gray, white, pale pink, and coral orange pile up to form a rough pyramid shape that fills the height of this square, abstract painting. More fragmented shapes in cobalt, azure, and light blue fill the upper left and right corners to either side of the apex, and one triangular space on its middle left. The artist has inscribed, “LA PROCESSION SEVILLE” in black capital letters near the top right edge and “Picabia” in the lower right.
Francis Picabia, The Procession, Seville, 1912, oil on canvas, Chester Dale Fund and Gift of Barbara Rothschild Michaels from the Collection of Herbert and Nannette Rothschild, 1997, 1997.43.1

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    East Building, Mezzanine, Northwest
Angular, geometric shapes in charcoal and smoke black, pewter and silver gray, white, pale pink, and coral orange pile up to form a rough pyramid shape that fills the height of this square, abstract painting. More fragmented shapes in cobalt, azure, and light blue fill the upper left and right corners to either side of the apex, and one triangular space on its middle left. The artist has inscribed, “LA PROCESSION SEVILLE” in black capital letters near the top right edge and “Picabia” in the lower right.
Francis Picabia, The Procession, Seville, 1912, oil on canvas, Chester Dale Fund and Gift of Barbara Rothschild Michaels from the Collection of Herbert and Nannette Rothschild, 1997, 1997.43.1

Overview: 98 paintings, drawings, and sculptures were on view, collected by Herbert and Nanette Rothschild who were guided by their daughter, abstract expressionist artist Judith Rothschild. The exhibition included works from many schools of modern European art, including futurism, cubism, constructivism, and de Stijl, as well as 4 paintings by Judith Rothschild.

Organization: The exhibition was organized by the National Gallery of Art and the Philadelphia Museum of Art, in collaboration with The Judith Rothschild Foundation. Mark Rosenthal, curator, and Jeffrey Weiss, assistant curator of 20th-century art at the Gallery, were the exhibition curators.

Attendance: 101,736

Catalog: Encounters with Modern Art: The Reminiscences of Nanette F. Rothschild, Works from the Rothschild Family Collections, edited by George A. Marcus with an introduction by Anne d'Harnoncourt. Philadelphia: Philadelphia Museum of Art, 1996.

Other Venues:

  • Philadelphia Museum of Art, 03/02/1997–05/11/1997
  • San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, 09/15/1997–12/12/1997

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