Museo Napoleonico exhibit Chaim Koppelman



meeting (2007) pastel


throughout koppelman s long career, image of napoleon recurrent, , retrospective exhibition of on eighty works , studies dealing napoleon held @ museo napoleonico in rome (11 october 2011 – 6 may 2012). titled napoleon entering new york: chaim koppelman , emperor, works 1957–2007, included paintings, pastels, drawings, collage, watercolors, intaglio etchings, linocuts, , many of artist s notes on paper. exhibition included selections lecture siegel gave in 1951, napoleon bonaparte: or, orderly energy, koppelman had attended , credited inspiring of work displayed.




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in review, chaim koppelman s napoleon entering brighton beach, coney island , artist richard sloat, past president of saga, wrote: in art, chaim koppelman maker of stories our inner self. ... napoleon leading army in retreat down boardwalk of coney island bit heroic, bit tragic, bit funny, bit absurd, glorious. not wonderful metaphor of our living life?


in reviewing exhibition, italian daily newspaper, corriere della sera described koppelman 1 of greatest american printmakers .








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