kTitle: From Impressionism to Early Modernism: Collectors of Light
          – the Robert Lehman Collection at The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Location: Special Exhibition Gallery 1

Date: Nov-14-2025 ~ Mar-15-2026

Exhibit: 81 objects from the Metropolitan Museum of Art, including Auguste Renoir, Two Young Girls at the Piano, Vincent van Gogh, The Flowering Orchard, Mary Cassatt, Spring: Margot Standing in a Garden.

Summary: Introduce the major currents of Western art from late 19^th-century Impressionism to early 20^th-century Modernism, shedding light on the shifting perceptions and concepts of art

l  Exhibition Introduction

This exhibition features French masterpieces from the late 19th-century Impressionists to the early 20th-century Modernists, collected by American banker Robert Lehman. The groundbreaking works that swept through France at the turn of the century captivated Robert Lehman, who recognized their bold departure from tradition.

What was once ridiculed—the vivid colors and distinctive brushwork that captured everyday life in the late 19th century—later inspired generations of artists and came to be celebrated as the very doorway to Modernism.

Featuring 81 paintings and drawings mostly from The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Robert Lehman Collection, this exhibition invites you to experience both the artists’ new ways of seeing and the passion of a collector who preserved them.