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Lasar Segall, Russian Village, 1913, Lithograph. Smart Museum of Art, the University of Chicago. Gift of Mauricio Segall and Oscar Klabin Segall, 1997.48
Past

Still More Distant Journeys: The Artistic Emigrations of Lasar Segall

October 16, 1997–January 4, 1998

Born in Vilna, Lithuania, Lasar Segall lived in Berlin and Dresden, where he was associated with the German Expressionist movement. He later emigrated to Brazil, where he lived and worked until his death.

Celebrated in South America, his work is still little known in the United States. Documenting the Diaspora of the Jews and embodying modern notions of “exoticism” and “primitivism” in modern art, Segall’s work presented a range of issues significant to today’s world of global culture and politics.

Catalog

Still More Distant Journeys: The Artistic Emigrations of Lasar Segall | Published February 1998 via the University of Chicago Press | Full-color English/Portuguese

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Tour

Following its closing in Chicago, the exhibition traveled to the Jewish Museum in New York.

This exhibition was co-organized by the Smart Museum of Art, the Lasar Segall Museum, Sao Paolo, Brazil, National Institute of the Historical and Artistic Patrimony, Brazilian Ministry of Culture, in collaboration with the Sao Paulo/Illinois Partners of the Americas.

Support

The exhibition was made possible by grants from the Nathan Cummings Foundation, the Smart Family Foundation, Inc., the Brazilian Ministry of Culture and the Safra Bank, Brazil.

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