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The Frick Madison installation, which received rave reviews upon debuting in March, is the subject of a newly released book Frick Madison: The Frick Collection at the Breuer Building (The Frick Collection in association with D Giles Limited, 2021).
The temporary installation at Frick Madison marks the first time that a substantial number of works in the collection have been presented outside of their customary residential context. In a departure from the Frick’s usual presentation style, works are organized at Frick Madison loosely by chronology, geographic region, and media, offering opportunities for new insights and perspectives of beloved objects.
Frick Madison: The Frick Collection at the Breuer Building commemorates the opening of the Frick Madison installation through texts and photography. Included are more than 130 images by the museum’s photographer, Joseph Coscia Jr., who captures the reframing of paintings, sculptures, and decorative arts in the space by Bellini, Bronzino, Clodion, Fragonard, Gainsborough, Goya, Holbein, Houdon, Ingres, Piero della Francesca, Rembrandt, Titian, Turner, Velázquez, Vermeer, Whistler, and many others.
The book features a foreword by author, social commentator, and contributing opinion writer for The New York Times Roxane Gay. Also included in the book are a preface by Ian Wardropper, Anna-Maria and Stephen Kellen Director, and an essay by Xavier F. Salomon, Deputy Director and Peter Jay Sharp Chief Curator, who discusses the vision behind presenting Frick holdings in a building that is also a work of art, as well as the process of reimagining the Frick in this way, against a backdrop of stone, concrete, and notable Marcel Breuer features.
Readers will learn about the documentation of unprecedented displays, among them, the placement of Bellini’s St. Francis in the Desert in a chapel-like room of its own adjacent to one of Breuer’s trapezoidal windows. Fragonard’s Progress of Love series is now shown in its entirety and in its original sequence for the first time in more than one-hundred years.
The book also illustrates the installation of lesser known but significant strengths in the Frick holdings, among these, a room featuring eighteenth-century French royal furniture and a gallery of rarely seen seventeenth-century Indian carpets. Photography also captures the current presentation of porcelain, shown here arranged by color.
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