The Philadelphia Museum of Art will have an extra manet in the gallery in the coming months – and they have to thank the Eagles.
On Wednesday the PMA received Édouard Manet’s “The Croquet Party (1871)” In loan of the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art in Kansas City, as part of a friendly Super Bowl 59 bet between the two institutions.
“It feels good to win, always. But it also feels good to share our wealth, our collection and our audience with our colleagues from the Nelson-Atkins Museum in Kansas City,” said Philadelphia Museum of Art Director and CEO Sasha Suda.
“The Croquet Party” shows the friends and family of Manet who play in a resort aan Zee in Boulogne, France. Both museums had performed paintings by the 19th -century French modernist painter as a bet, senting the loser to the winner for a few months. If Kansas City had won the Super Bowl, the PMA would have sent “The Folkestone Boat, Boulogne” To Missouri. The two paintings were no longer at the same location since 1873.
Now they share the same wall, along with two other paintings with a navy theme that Manet did during the same holiday period in Coastal France, in the Impressionists Gallery, with works by Monet, Degas, Rodin and Gaugin.
While the three PMA manettes are on the blue notity-colored walls of the gallery, just like the other works, the borrowed painting for a Kelly Green panel was placed with a not so subtle Eagles logo underneath.
Jennifer Thompson, a curator of European paintings at PMA, was instructed to choose which two pieces had to be used and said that the strong impressionist collections of the two museum, in particular Manet (although he never defined himself as an impressionist), caused an easy crossing. She described seeing the similarities in the co -placed scenes next to each other as a ‘phenomenal experience’.
“We started to see some of the same people, even some of the same dresses and garments and hats that appeared on both photos, something that I had never fully realized until the two photos were seen next to each other on our gallery walls,” Thompson said.
Like many bets, some public shame had been added to the deployment. The Museum of Losing City did not only vote to send their valuable artwork: they had to send a delegation to deliver it by hand.
Julán Zugazagoitia, director and CEO of the Nelson-Atkins, did not see the journey as a punishment.
“The truth is that it is always a joy to share art with everyone and bring one of our masterpieces to Philadelphia to be one of the sisters of art who has already placed Manet in context this period is happy,” he said.
Suda and Zugazagoitia said they text back and forth after every touchdown and big game during the Super Bowl. They actually started earlier in the NFL play -offs, when it seemed increasingly likely that the Rematch would happen.
“When the Chiefs played the bills, I stood on the edge of my chair and rooted the leaders because of this friendly rivalry we have,” said Suda.
The Eagles were merciful in victory and sent mascot and a group of cheerleaders to offer a sporty handshake to Zugazagoitia, after Swoop was done around the invaluable artworks and giving museum staff small palpitations.
Museums have placed similar bets on and off since 2010, According to the artificial newspaper. The first Museum Bowl Wager of the PMA was in 2018, With the Museum of Fine Arts Boston. The very first super bowl title of the Eagles led to “Mrs. James Warren (Mercy Otis)” by John Singleton Copley To Philly are sent to Philly. Philly would have borrowed Benjamin West’s “Benjamin Franklin pulls electricity from the air” If Nick Foles had not reached the “Philly Special” and Brandon Graham Tom Brady had not striped.
When the Birds and Kansas City went against each other in 2019, the PMA had to pull Thomas Eakins’ ‘Sailing’ From the storage and sjok it to Missouri.
Various other Philly offices and organizations Made similar friendly bets With their counterparts in Kansas City, including mayors, school systems and zoos of the cities. Even Pat’s went against Joe’s Kansas City BBQ.
Sports books Betmgm and Caesars both reported that this was super bowl The most bet-single sporting event In each of their history. But these two gamblers sounded like there were no losers.
“The last time it was in our favor. This time it will go to Philadelphia. So we are happy that we are 1-1,” said Zugazagoitia. “We can’t wait for the next Super Bowl, and we hope that our two teams are there.”
Zugazagoitia even has some works of art in mind to bet for the next Super Bowl -parts of the ceiling from a 15th -century Zhihua -Temple in Beijing that both PMA And The Nelson-Atkins have in their collections.
“The Croquet Party” will be shown in Gallery 252 to 17 August. Make sure you give a “go birds” after you have finished admiring the masterful brush strokes.
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