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Past Exhibitions

2010

Exhibition of Frank Brangwyn
In commemoration of the 50th Anniversary of the National Museum of Western Art
23 February 2010 - 30 May 2010
[Prints and Drawings Exhibition] Modern Drawings from the National Museum of Western Art Selections from the Matsukata Collection and Post-1959 Acquisitions
In commemoration of the 50th Anniversary of the National Museum of Western Art
23 February 2010 - 30 May 2010
[Prints and Drawings Exhibition]Honoré Daumier: the political lithographs from La Caricature
26 June 2010 - 5 September 2010
Masterpieces from the Museum of Capodimonte in Naples, from Renaissance to Baroque
26 June 2010 - 26 September 2010
Shadows: Works from the National Museums of Art
8 September - 18 October 2010
Venue: The National Art Center, Tokyo
[Prints and Drawings Exhibition] Light and Darkness in 19th Century French Prints:Meryon, Bresdin, Bracquemond, Redon
18 September 2010 - 28 November 2010
Albrecht Dürer Religion/Portraits/Nature Prints and Drawings
26 October 2010 – 16 January 2011
[Prints and Drawings Exhibition] Outsiders
10 December 2010 – 13 February 2011

2011

Rembrandt :The Quest for Chiaroscuro
12 March 2011 – 12 June 2011
[Prints and Drawings Exhibition] Fantastic Nature: Northern Prints before Rembrandt
12 March 2011 – 12 June 2011
The Body Beautiful in Ancient Greece from the British Museum
5 July 2011 – 25 September 2011
Goya: Luces y Sombras. Obras Maestras del Museo del Prado
Goya: Lights and Shadows. Masterpieces of the Museo del Prado
Saturday 22 October 2011 - Sunday 29 January 2012
[Prints and Drawings Exhibition]Prints by William Blake
Saturday 22 October 2011 - Sunday 29 January 2012

2012

Hubert Robert - Les jardins du Temps
6 March 2012 – 20 May 2012
[Prints and Drawings Exhibition] The Prisons by Giovanni Battista Piranesi
6 March 2012 – 20 May 2012
From Renaissance to Rococo. Four Centuries of European Drawing, Painting and Sculpture.
13 June 2012 – 17 September 2012
[Prints and Drawings Exhibition] Kleinmeister: German Small-Format Printmakers in the First Half of the 16th Century
13 June 2012 – 17 September 2012
Traces of Hands
Sculpture and Drawings by Rodin and Bourdelle from the National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo
3 November 2012 – 27 January 2013
[Fun with Collection 2012] Finding the Fascination of Sculpture
3 November 2012 – 27 January 2013
[Prints and Drawings Exhibition] Max Klinger's Prints:
Dream Sequences Drawn from the Stylus
3 November 2012 – 27 January 2013
[Traveling Exhibitions presenting National Art Museum Collections, Fiscal 2012]
Modern European Art From the Collection of the National Museum of Western Art
Venue: Ibara Municipal Denchu Art Museum
Dates:5 October 2012 – 25 November 2012
Venue:Iwami Art Museum
Dates:22 December 2012 – 18 February 2013

2013

Raffaello
Dates: Saturday 2 March - Sunday 2 June 2013
[Prints and Drawings Exhibition]
Landscape: from the Drawing collection of the National Museum of Western Art
Dates: Saturday 2 March - Sunday 2 June 2013
[Prints and Drawings Exhibition]
Picasso's Animals: From an Illustrated Book Based on Buffon's Natural History
Dates: Tuesday 9 July – Sunday 25 August 2013
Le Corbusier and 20th Century Art
Dates: Tuesday 6 August – Monday 4 November 2013
Michelangelo Buonarroti The Making of a Genius and the 500th Anniversary of the Sistine Chapel
Dates: Friday 6 September – Sunday 17 November 2013
[Prints and Drawings Exhibition]
Italian Prints: Featuring New Acquisitions
Dates: Friday 6 September – Sunday 17 November 2013
Inside and Outside, the Two Faces of Spanish Informalism in the Collections of the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía
Dates: Thursday 3 October 2013 – Sunday 5 January 2014
Monet, An Eye for Landscapes: Innovation in 19th Century French Landscape Paintings
Dates: Saturday 7 December – Sunday 9 March 2014
The 150th Anniversary : The Prints of Edvard Munch from the National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo
Dates: Saturday 7 December – Sunday 9 March 2014

2014

Jacques Callot : Theater of Realism and Fantasy
Dates: Tuesday 8 April – Sunday 15 June 2014
Voices Calling from the Unusual: Hirano Keiichiro's Selection of Western Art Masterpieces
Dates: Tuesday 8 April – Sunday 15 June 2014
The Rings from The Hashimoto Collection of The National Museum of Western Art
Tuesday 8 July– Monday 15 September 2014
Yo lo ví: Dream and Reality in the Prints of Francisco de Goya
Tuesday 8 July– Monday 15 September 2014
150th Anniversary of Diplomatic Relations between Japan and Switzerland
Ferdinand Hodler: Towards Rhythmic Images
Dates: Tuesday 7 October 2014 – Monday 12 January 2015
Netherlandish Allegorical Prints
Dates: Tuesday 7 October 2014 – Monday 12 January 2015

2015

GUERCINO
Dates: Tuesday 3 March 2015 – Sunday 31 May 2015
Lithographs and Etchings from Fin-de-Siècle France
Dates: Tuesday 17 March 2015 – Sanday 31 May 2015
No Museum, No Life? Art-Museum Encyclopedia to Come: From the Collections of the National Museums of Art
16 June - 13 September 2015
Venue: The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo
Bordeaux, Port de la Lune
Dates: Tuesday 23 June 2015 – Wednesday 23 September 2015
Le Corbusier: Women and the Sea Works from the Taisei Collection
Dates: Tuesday 14 July 2015 – Sunday 4 October 2015
The Golden Legend
Dates: Friday 16 October 2015 – Monday 11 January 2016

2016

Caravaggio and His Time: Friends, Rivals and Enemies
Dates: Tuesday 1 March – Sunday 12 June 2016
Dream Analysis Depicted: Dreams Seen Awake / Real Worlds Seen Asleep
Dates: Saturday 19 March – Sunday 12 June 2016
Sacred and Secular: Israhel van Meckenem & Early German Engraving
Dates: Saturday 9 July 2016 - Monday 19 September 2016
Le Corbusier and the Museum of Unlimited Growth – Understanding this Ideal
Dates: Saturday 9 July 2016 - Monday 19 September 2016
Lucas Cranach the Elder: 500 Years of the Power of Temptation
Dates: Saturday 15 October 2016 – Sunday 15 January 2017
The Drawings of Maurice Denis: Traces of Inspiration on Paper
Dates: Saturday 15 October 2016 – Sunday 15 January 2017
Skagen: An Artists’ Colony in Denmark
Dates: Friday, 10 February 2017 – Sunday, 28 May 2017
Théodore Chassériau : Parfum exotique
Dates: Tuesday, 28 February 2017 – Sunday, 28 May 2017

2017

Le Corbusier’s Artistic Space –His Thought Processes as Seen in the NMWA Plans
Dates: Firday, 9 June 2017 – Sunday, 24 September 2017
Arcimboldo: Nature into Art
Dates: Tuesday, 20 June 2017 – Sunday, 24 September 2017
Hokusai and Japonisme
Dates: Saturday, 21 October 2017 – Sunday, 28 January 2018
Getting to the Gates of Hell: Rodin's Album Fenaille Drawings for Dante's Divine Comedy
Dates: Saturday, 21 October 2017 – Sunday, 28 January 2018

2018

The 150th Anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations between Japan and Spain
VELÁZQUEZ AND THE CELEBRATION OF PAINTING: THE GOLDEN AGE IN THE MUSEO DEL PRADO
Dates: Saturday, 24 February 2018 – Sunday, 27 May 2018
The Galerie Maeght and 20th Century Painters—Featuring Derrière le miroir
Dates: Saturday, 24 February 2018 – Sunday, 27 May 2018
Michelangelo and the Ideal Body
Dates: Tuesday, 19 June 2018 – Monday, 24 September 2018
Examining Western Prints – Engraving: Intricate Realms Conjured by the Burin
Dates: Tuesday, 19 June 2018 – Monday, 24 September 2018
Richter/ Courbet
Dates: Tuesday, 19 June 2018 – Sunday, 20 January 2019
Rubens and the Birth of the Baroque
Dates: Tuesday, 16 October 2018 – Sunday, 20 January 2019
Views of Rome - Transition in Images and Media
Dates: Tuesday, 16 October 2018 – Sunday, 20 January 2019

2019

Upon the 60th Anniversary of the NMWA
Le Corbusier and the Age of Purism
Dates: Tuesday, 19 February 2019 – Sunday, 19 May 2019
Hayashi Tadamasa: The Paris Art Dealer Who Promoted Japonisme
Dates: Tuesday, 19 February 2019 – Sunday, 19 May 2019
Upon the 60th Anniversary of the NMWA
THE MATSUKATA COLLECTION: A One-Hundred-Year Odyssey
Dates: Tuesday, 11 June 2019 – Monday, 23 September 2019
100th Anniversary of Diplomatic Relations between Japan and Finland
Modern Woman: Finnish Women Artists from the Collection of Ateneum, Finnish National Gallery
Dates: Tuesday, 18 June 2019 – Monday, 23 September 2019
150 Years Friendship Austria-Japan
The Habsburg Dynasty:600 Years of Imperial Collections
Dates: Saturday, 19 October 2019 – Sunday, 26 January 2020
Gothic Manuscripts from the Naito Collection:
Microcosms of Images Imbedded in Words, Images Surpassing Words
Dates: Saturday, 19 October 2019 – Sunday, 26 January 2020