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Sharing the same sensitive vision as Solomon R.Guggenheim, he gave him a significant share of his collection for his foundation.
The Thannhauser collector’s work on European art in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, a complex period of economic, political, social and psychological upheaval, reveals the diversity of artistic styles that arose in response to the two dominant trends at the time, academic naturalism and the Impressionists’ devotion to the natural world.
Artists such as Gauguin and Van Gogh turn their eyes inward and infuse into their canvases strong emotional tones.
Henri Rousseau
Football players, 1908
Oil on canvas, 100,3 x 80,3 cm
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York 60.1583
© Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation, New York (SRGF)
