Stories of painting from abstraction to impressionism. Masterpieces from the Toledo Museum of Art.
From November 15, 2025, to May 10, 2026, the Santa Caterina Museum will host the exhibition From Picasso to Van Gogh Stories of Painting from Abstraction to Impressionism. Masterpieces from the Toledo Museum of Art: the exhibition curated by Marco Goldin brings for the first time to Europe over sixty works from the Toledo Museum in Ohio, one of the most important centers for 20th-century art.
The exhibition is an extraordinary journey back in time, a trip through art from American abstraction of the 20th century to European impressionism, in a constant dialogue between the two shores of the Atlantic to understand through extraordinary masterpieces landscapes, portraits, placed figures, and still lifes how abstraction came about and where it started.
The setup pairs works by Piet Mondrian with Reinhardt, the geometries of Josef Albers, the landscapes of William Merritt Chase, and extends to Cézanne, Monet, and Gauguin. The journey concludes with the famous painting Auvers, wheat fields with reaper by Vincent Van Gogh, to which the last space of the exhibition is entirely dedicated.
The exhibition can be visited from Tuesday to Thursday, from 9:00 AM to 6:00 PM and from Friday to Sunday, from 9:00 AM to 7:00 PM. The museum is closed on Mondays, on December 23 and 24, and on January 7, 2026.
