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Museum of Fine Arts, Boston  April 15 to July 9, 2017 Sandro Botticelli and workshop, Venus (detail), about 1484–90. Oil on canvas, transferred from panel. Galleria Sabauda, Turin. lnv. 172. in Sh This spring, the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (MFA), presents the largest exhibition of paintings by Sandro Botticelli (about 1445–1510) ever to be shown in the US. Perhaps more than any other painter, Botticelli exemplifies the artistic achievement of Renaissance Florence in the 15th century, and his signature style of strong contours, lyrical poses and flowing drapery remains instantly recognizable more than five centuries later. Botticelli and the Search for the Divine assembles 15 paintings by the master—loans from museums and churches in Italy, including the world-renowned Galleria degli Uffizi in Florence, as well as three important works from the MFA, the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum and the Harvard Art Museums. Many of the international loans are on view for

Opening on February 10, 2017, on the occasion of the eightieth anniversary of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation, Visionaries: Creating a Modern Guggenheim features more than 170 modern objects from the permanent collections of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, and the Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Venice.  Assembling many of the foundation’s most iconic works along with treasures by artists less familiar, this celebratory exhibition explores avant-garde innovations of the late nineteenth through mid-twentieth centuries, as well as the groundbreaking activities of six pioneering arts patrons who brought to light some of the most significant artists of their day and established the Guggenheim Foundation’s identity as a forward- looking institution. Visionaries includes important works by artists such as Alexander Calder, Paul Cézanne, Marc Chagall, Vasily Kandinsky, Paul Klee, Fernand Léger, Piet Mondrian, Pablo Picasso, Jackson Pollock, and Vincent van Gogh.  Visionaries:

Emile Auguste Hublin (French, born 1830) A beautiful gift 31 3/4 x 25 3/4in (80.5 x 65.5cm) unframed A Beautiful Gift , a work by the French Academic painter Émile-Auguste Hublin (1830-1891), is among the leading works in Bonhams' next 19th Century European Paintings sale in New York on Wednesday 3 May. It is estimated at US$50,000-70,000. Hublin's artistic influence can be traced back to the French 18th-century master, Jacques-Louis David whose emphasis on excellent draftsmanship, brilliant coloring and an eye for beauty is clearly evident in A Beautiful Gift . Hublin studied under François Édouard Picot, a pupil of David who established a studio at the prestigious Académie des Beaux Arts to preserve and extend his legacy. Bonhams Senior Specialist in European Paintings in the US, Madalina Lazen, said: "Hublin's paintings are a vivid document

Heather James Fine Art Feb 1 – May 31, 2017 The Art of the Wyeth Family features artwork by the many family members and descendants of N.C. Wyeth, spanning three generations. The Wyeth family has strong roots along the East Coast – particularly in coastal Maine, and rural Pennsylvania – that is reflected in their naturalistic representations of the landscape, wildlife, and area inhabitants.  The first group exhibition of art by the Wyeth family took place in Philadelphia in 1935. Comprised of paintings by all of the artists in the Wyeth family at the time, the exhibition included N.C. Wyeth’s work alongside those of his children Henriette, Carolyn, and Andrew.  N.C. Wyeth insisted that his children learn the traditional aspects of creating art such as perspective drawing and working with human models and plaster casts, while also emphasizing the importance of astutely observing the natural world and their place within it. He would later reflect “that a man can only paint that which he