Enjoy Rembrandt, Renoir Up Real Close And Personal
Imagine the luxury of studying a work of art by Rembrandt for as long as you pleased. Not in a magazine, but in person. You and Rembrandt. Or you and Renoir.
Usually, such an experience would require a trip to a museum in a far-away city.
However, between Saturday and Jan. 3, rare original etchings by Rembrandt, Renoir, DeFeure, Cheret, Cassatt, Bouisset, Robbe and Tissot will be on display in downtown Spokane at the Douglas Gallery, 120 N. Wall.
Fifteen of the 300 etchings Rembrandt created over a 40-year period will be shown in “Works of the Masters.”
“Rembrandt was a chronicler of his time,” said Danni Douglas, co-owner of the gallery with her husband, Dennis. He depicted the life and conditions of his native Holland during the 1600s.
“These works are as much a visual reporting of history as they are examples of the technical genius of an artist regarded as one of the greatest who ever lived,” Douglas said.
Fitting for the season will be Rembrandt’s biblical narrative etchings.
Among Renoir’s works at the show will be the famous lithograph of his son, Jean Renoir, created in 1898. “L’Enfant au Biscuit” is one of the most important works by the artist and highlights the exhibition, said Susan Nagy Luks, a representative with Titus Fine Art of Beverly Hills, Calif., which is mounting the show.
The show took several months to prepare, Dennis Douglas said. Pieces have been acquired from all over the world through auction and private and museum collections.
The show will include many works that will be available for sale.
Gallery hours are from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Monday through Thursday and from 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. Friday and Saturday.
Galleries around the area
“Drawings and Paintings” by Kay O’Rourke will be shown Friday through Jan. 3 at Lorinda Knight Gallery, 523 W. Sprague.
O’Rourke is one of Spokane’s best-known artists, and her works have been widely displayed. She was included in the “Curatorial Choice: A Northwest Survey” in Helena and won Best of Show from the “Women in Washington: The First Century” exhibit at Pacific Lutheran University. She’s exhibited in shows from Spokane to Texas.
Gallery hours are 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. Tuesday through Saturday.
At Washington State University, the Compton Union Gallery will conclude its fall exhibition season with a watercolor exhibit by artist and interior architect Inci Mustecaplioglu.
“Dreaming Istanbul” continues through Dec. 12.
Mustecaplioglu, born in Istanbul, Turkey, grew up playing in hundredyear-old fountains, playing hideand-seek around abandoned houses and boating on the Bosphorus, said Marty Mullen, a WSU spokesman.
Through her watercolors, she wants to capture Istanbul and its historical and environmental transformation.
Mustecaplioglu is a graduate student at WSU pursuing an interdisciplinary doctorate.
Compton Union Gallery hours are from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. The gallery will be closed Nov. 24-28.
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