Brooklyn Museum To Display Rarely Seen Works By Picasso, Degas

PROSPECT HEIGHTS, BROOKLYN — A collection of rarely exhibited works from some of the world's most famous artists will be on display at the Brooklyn Museum this summer, officials announced.

"Rembrandt to Picasso: Five Centuries of European Works on Paper" will showcase prints and drawings from Pablo Picasso, Vincent van Goph, Francisco Goya and others, that are too delicate to put on permanent display, curators said.

"I'm thrilled for our audiences to have close-looking encounters with these highlights from Brooklyn's extensive collection of European works on paper, which are rarely exhibited because of light-sensitivity," said the exhibit curator Lisa Small.

"There is an intimacy and immediacy to works on paper that seems to bring us nearest to an artist's vision and process."

Édouard Manet's "The Equestrienne," Edgar Degas' "Woman Drying Her Hair," etchings from Goya's acclaimed "Los Caprichos" and Pablo Picasso's "Nude Standing in Profile" are just a few of more than 100 European works that will be on display from from June 21 until Oct. 13.

The show will run concurrently with "One: Titus Kaphar," an exhibit that examines marginalized voices, bodies and histories that were less likely to be validated in the European art world, Brooklyn Museum curators write.

Kaphar, a modern-day American painter whose works focus on the lives of women and African-Americans in this nation's history, will showcase his own work and provide commentary on select pieces from "Rembrandt to Picasso: Five Centuries of European Works on Paper."

"These prints and drawings are examples of extraordinary technical achievement and vivid artistic experimentation," noted Small. "But they also offer an opportunity to explore compelling and provocative themes that continue to resonate today."