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busChlen mowatt galleries Celebrate 20th CenturY masters in 2002

busChlen mowatt galleries
Celebrate 20th CenturY masters in 2002

buschlen mowatt galleries, Palm desert’s newest and finest
gallery of contemporary international art offers a fantastic and
exclusive lineup for the 2002 winter spring exhibition season.

Featuring four artists from four different countries, buschlen
mowatt is proud to bring Canada’s sorel etrog, France’s
bernard Cathelin, italy’s livio seguso and britain’s lynn
Chadwick to the desert in four blockbuster exhibitions.
buschlen mowatt heralds these “masters of their mediums”
(sculptor, painter, glass master and sculptor respectively) as
seminal innovators of the 20th Century, brilliant artists who
have impacted contemporary art not only in their respective
nations but also around the world.

Canada’s greatest sculptor, sorel etrog kicks off the season
in the desert with a 40 Year retrospective of his remarkable
sculpture. Featuring over 100 works from the monumental
to maquette scale, many of which are housed in prestigious
public collections including the tate gallery, the guggenheim,
the museum of modem art and the Palm springs desert
museum, this exhibition offers a rare opportunity to consider
all seven major periods of etrog’s career.

From his earliest years as a painter, when he collaborated with
henri matisse, French modern master bernard Cathelin earned
his place in the grand tradition of modernist painting with
his vibrant sensitivity for color, his bold, luxurious handling of
paint and his dynamic sense of composition. in 1995, Cathelin
was awarded the legion of honor by the late French President
François mitterrand, who described the artist as “truly the
representative of French art for our epoch.’ direct from
shanghai, China where he inaugurated the shanghai art
museum with a retrospective of the works of bernard
Cathelin, the 83-year-old artist offers buschlen mowatt Palm
desert the first american exhibition of new paintings in 3
years as well as a remarkable selection of his world-renowned
tapestries.

buschlen mowatt is proud to introduce livio Seguso, italy’s
pre-eminent glass sculptor, to the united states with a 30 Year
retrospective of the artist’s oeuvre. Considered the “maestro’
of Venetian glass, seguso has an unrivalled reputation in his
native italy. with his innovative technique of glass blowing and
unparalleled purity of form, seguso has created sculptures that
are breathtaking masterworks of elegant simplicity. buschlen
mowatts groundbreaking exhibition will feature rare works
livio SeguSo that have not been available to the public in decades,
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2000 granito e Cristallo highlighting early sculpture that, owing to the artist’s age and
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the technical difficulty creation, will never be duplicated.
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