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The “Van Gogh to Picasso: Impressionist and Modern Masterworks from the Cleveland Museum of Art” is on display at the Seoul Arts Center (Hangaram Art Museum), Seoul, South Korea from December 22, 2006 to March 28, 2007. This exhibition is part of the series of Cleveland Museum of Art (CMA) which began in Beijing, China in March 2006, and traveled to Tokyo Japan in September 2006. The Korean leg comprises exhibits at Seoul Art Center to be followed from April 7, 2007 to May 20, 2007 at Seoul Olympic Museum.

It is an opportunity for the Koreans to view selected works of modern European masters from the 19th and 20th century. The masterpieces that include sculpture, paintings and works on paper, are divided into groups: “The Impressionist Epoch”, “Post-Impressionism”, “Early Modernist Sculpture”, and “The Age of Avant-Gardes”.

Some of these finest works include: Pierre-Auguste Renoir’s (French, 1841–1919) Romaine Lacaux (1864); The Red Kerchief: Portrait of Mme. Monet (1868–70); Berthe Morisot’s (French, 1841–1895) Reading (1873); Auguste Rodin’s (French, 1840–1917) Heroic Head of Pierre de Wiessant, One of the Burghers of Calais (1886); Vincent van Gogh’s (Dutch, 1853–1890); Paul Gauguin’s (French, 1848–1903) In the Waves (1889); Paul Cézanne’s (French, 1839–1906); Pablo Picasso’s (Spanish, 1881–1973) Bottle, Glass, and Fork (1911 12); Amedeo Modigliani’s (Italian, 1884–1920) Portrait of a Woman (c. 1917–18); Henri Matisse’s (French, 1869–1954) Festival of Flowers, Nice (1923); Edgar Degas’ (French, 1834-1917) In the Salon; and Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec’s (French, 1864-1901) May Milton.