KUALA LUMPUR, March 29 (Bernama) -- The National Museum of Western Art in Tokyo will hold a series of basic philosophy-themed exhibitions this year, to mark its 60th anniversary founding.
Following the ongoing ‘Le Corbusier and the Age of Purism’ exhibition beginning May 19, the museum will also hold ‘THE MATSUKATA COLLECTION: A One-Hundred-Year Odyssey’ exhibition from June 11 to Sept 23.
These masterpieces belonging to businessman Kojiro Matsukata are collections of works by Claude Monet, Pierre-Auguste Renoir and Auguste Rodin, among others.
Matsukata has collected a massive number of artworks including ‘Water Lilies’, in London and Paris over a period of 10 years from 1916, aimed at establishing a museum of art introducing Western artworks in Japan.
During the exhibition, the museum will also display Monet's long missing ‘Water Lilies, Reflections of Weeping Willows’ which was found in France in 2016 and donated to the museum later, for the first time, after restoration of the work.
The museum holds the best collection of Western artworks in Asia, allowing visitors to trace the history of Western art from the late Medieval Period to the early 20th century and the main building designed by architect Le Corbusier, registered as a World Cultural Heritage site.
Audio guidance in English, Chinese and Korean (paid) are provided while free guide apps and tablets in these three languages are also available at some exhibitions. For more information, contact http://www.nmwa.go.jp/en.
-- BERNAMA
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