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Spring 2002 |
By Alidë Kohlhaas
The Art Gallery of Ontario chose a very fitting slogan, "A Surrealist Summer", for its summer season. Its two highly fascinating major exhibitions, although individual entities, combine into a comprehensive overview of a period in early 20th century art that even now influences some artists . There are also two smaller installations alluding to the same period.
The first major exhibit is André Masson inside/outside Surrealism: Prints and Illustrated Books from the Gotlieb Collection. The second is Dreaming with Open Eyes, Dada and Surrealist Art from the Vera, Silvia and Arturo Schwarz Collection in the Israel Museum.
The Gotlieb collection is owned by the AGO, thanks to Allan Gotlieb, one of Canada’s former ambassadors to the United States, once a chairman of the Canada Council, and now chairman of Sotheby’s Canada. In 1999, he and his wife, Sondra, donated the 93 Masson prints and illustrated books to the gallery. They are now on show to there after having been exhibited in Boston earlier this year. In 1994, the Gotliebs also donated their James Tissot collection to the AGO.
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