Art Historian To Speak At Adelphi

The Friends of the Adelphi University Library will hold its 11th Annual Fall Art Lecture with art historian and popular lecturer from the Metropolitan Museum of Art Ines Losada Powell, who will speak on the works in the museum's current exhibition "Cézanne to Picasso: Ambroise Vollard, Patron of the Avant-Garde" on Sunday, November 19, 2006, at 3:00 p.m. in Adelphi's Ruth S. Harley University Center Ballroom, 1 South Avenue, Garden City, NY. The event is free and open to the public. Following the event, a drawing will be held for family passes to the Metropolitan Museum of Art, as well as gifts and restaurant certificates.

Ms. Powell will discuss Ambroise Vollard (1867-1939), who established himself at the age of 28 as an art dealer in Paris. The year 1895 marked the presentation of Cézanne's first solo exhibition by Vollard. Over the succeeding years, he bought and sold pictures by Bonnard, Cézanne, Degas, Derain, Gauguin, Van Gogh, Maillol, Matisse, Picasso, Redon, Renoir, Rouault, Rousseau, Vlaminck, Vuillard, and others. Vollard became known as the leading art dealer and publisher of fine prints and illustrated books of his time. In 1936, Vollard's memoirs, Recollections of a Picture Dealer, were published in Paris and London.

In addition to paintings from the Cézanne show, the Metropolitan Museum's exhibition which runs until January 7, 2007, includes works from Vollard's Van Gogh retrospective (1896), his Gauguin exhibition (1898), paintings from Picasso's first French exhibition (1901), Matisse's first solo exhibition (1904), and Derain's London series (1906-7). The exhibition also features dozens of ceramics, sculpture, prints, and livres d'artistes or artists' books commissioned and published by Vollard. Also displayed are numerous portraits of Vollard by leading artists such as Cézanne, Renoir, Bonnard, and Picasso.

The event is sponsored by the Friends of Adelphi University Library. Founded in 1947, this organization aims to build up a greater realization of the importance of the library to the future development of the University.

For more information about this and other events on campus, please visit www.adelphi.edu, or call the Cultural Events Hotline at (516) 877-4555.