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Best of Boijmans : highlights of the Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen collection / selection and texts Peter van der Coelen, Alexandra van Dongen, Albert Elen, Sjarel Ex, Saskia van Kampen-Prein, Annemartine van Kesteren, Sandra Kisters, Friso Lammertse, Mienke Simon Thomas, Francesco Stocchi ; editing Sandra Kisters, Esmee Postma, Sabine Terra ; translation [from the Dutch] Lynne Richards

Title
Best of Boijmans : highlights of the Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen collection / selection and texts Peter van der Coelen, Alexandra van Dongen, Albert Elen, Sjarel Ex, Saskia van Kampen-Prein, Annemartine van Kesteren, Sandra Kisters, Friso Lammertse, Mienke Simon Thomas, Francesco Stocchi ; editing Sandra Kisters, Esmee Postma, Sabine Terra ; translation [from the Dutch] Lynne Richards
Author
Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen (Rotterdam, Netherlands), author.
Publication
Rotterdam : Museum Boijmans van Beuningen, 2020

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  • Coelen, Peter van der,
  • Dongen, A. G. A. van,
  • Elen, Albert J.,
  • Kisters, Sandra,
  • Postman, Esmee,
  • Richards, Lynne,
  • Terra, Sabine,
Description
297 pages : illustrations, portraits; 16 cm
Summary
Did you know that Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen was the first public art institution in the Netherlands to acquire a painting by Vincent Van Gogh for its collection? And that 20,562 litres of water are needed for Olafur Eliasson's installation 'Notion motion'? Or that Gerard Reve once sent an admiring letter to the museum about Geertgen tot Sint Jans's small panel 'The Glorification of the Virgin'? These and many more fascinating facts can be found in a lavishly illustrated publication featuring more than a hundred and fifty highlights from the collection.00For over a hundred and seventy years, Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen has been building up a very varied collection of art and design from the Middle Ages to the present day. Best of Boijmans presents the collection as a unity in diversity. Detached from time, place and medium, surprising connections are made between the different areas of the collection. A sculpture of a human figure by the contemporary artist Maurizio Cattelan bears an unexpected resemblance to a drawing of John the Baptist by Raphael; a nineteenth-century landscape by Barend Cornelis Koekkoek sits extraordinarily comfortably alongside a work by the Rotterdam artist Daan van Golden. This handy little book takes you on a thematic, visual journey through the collection
Subject
  • Art, Dutch
  • Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen (Rotterdam, Netherlands)
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  • Title from spine
ISBN
  • 9789069183169
  • 9069183161
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Columbia University Libraries