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Eric Woods, Chief Operating Officer at the MFA, says:
“The MFA’s seldom-shown French pastels are masterworks, but are often not on display due to their fragility. By minting NFTs of these works by Monet, Degas, Millet and others, we are leveraging new modalities to be able to share our collection more broadly. Additionally, embracing this new technology will serve us well into the future. The funds generated will support the care of paintings from the Impressionist collection, enabling the Museum to continue sharing them with the public for generations to come.”
“We are thrilled to announce our first partner in the USA with the renowned MFA and to share their incredible collection of works with our global community. As a French-owned business, it is fitting to launch with an exquisite exhibition of some of the greatest French artists of the 19th century. Rarely seen by the public due to the delicate nature of pastels, it is with great excitement that we can bring this collection to light through our platform and, through the power of technology, share these with audiences in France this summer.”
The NFT Collection
The NFT collection will bring the pastels to life for a new generation of collectors and general art enthusiasts. The collection will feature artworks created between 1860 and 1910, with highlights including:
View of the Sea at Sunset, about 1862
Claude Monet (French, 1840–1926)
Pastel on paper
* Bequest of William P. Blake in memory of his sister, Anne Dehon Blake * Photograph © Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
NFT Drop Schedule
NFT Exhibition in Giverny, France
French Impressionism at the MFA
During the late 19th century, avant-garde artists in France and beyond took up pastels to capture the immediate — a disappearing smile, rain clouds moving away, and vibrant flowers soon to perish. The pastel works of artists such as Claude Monet, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Odilon Redon, Jean-François Millet, Édouard Manet and Edgar Degas are key to understanding the Impressionist movement, which changed the course of art history from 1860 until the early 1900s.
Bostonians were among the world’s first collectors of French Impressionism; the MFA received its first three Monet works as a gift in 1906 and today holds one of the largest collections of the artist’s paintings outside Paris. Boston’s love of Impressionism was not limited to Monet, with gifts and judicious purchases — of works by artists ranging from Degas to Caillebotte — contributing to what is recognised as one of the world’s finest Impressionist art collections.
Conservation at the MFA
Conservation is an integral part of the MFA’s mission to preserve collections for future generations, and this year marks the opening of a new state-of-the-art Conservation Center at the Museum. Funds from the collection sale will go towards the study and conservation of two paintings by Degas in the MFA’s collection: the double portrait Edmondo & Therese Morbilli and Degas’s Father Listening to Lorenzo Pagans Playing the Guitar (1869-72).
Dandelions, 1867–68
Jean-François Millet (French, 1814–1875)
Pastel on tan wove paper
* Gift of Quincy Adams Shaw through Quincy Adams Shaw, Jr., and Mrs. Marian Shaw Haughton
* Photograph © Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
About the Museum of Fine Arts Boston
The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, opened its doors to the public on July 4, 1876, the nation’s centennial. Built in Copley Square, the MFA was then home to 5,600 works of art. Over the next several years, the collection and number of visitors grew exponentially, and in 1909 the Museum moved to its current home on Huntington Avenue. Today the Museum houses a global collection encompassing nearly 500,000 works of art, from ancient to contemporary.
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