TAMPA, FLA.- The Tampa Museum of Art announces the opening of Public and Private – The Figure Examined: Masterworks from the Kasser Mochary Art Foundation. This exhibition opened on February 12, 2016, and will be on view through May 30, 2016.

Comprising approximately 100 works of art, this survey examines the portrayal of the human figure through paintings, sculpture, and works on paper by noted 19th- and 20th-century European and American artists. Included in the exhibition are works by Pablo Picasso, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Mary Cassatt, Diego Rivera, Henri Matisse, Alberto Giacometti, Edgar Degas, Andy Warhol, Auguste Rodin, and many others.

In the figure, concepts of beauty and notions of universal and individual identity are revealed through the aesthetics of the human form, the earliest, most dominant and inexhaustible subject of art. Public and Private –The Figure Examined: Masterworks from the Kasser Mochary Art Foundation provides the opportunity to observe ways in which crucial cultural, historic, and social events affected art movements over the span of approximately 175 years. With focus on the human figure, the exhibition traces social ideals, artistic movements, philosophical and political theories, stylistic trends, and experimentation with media during this dynamic and rapidly changing period in art.

Seth Pevnick, Chief Curator and Richard E. Perry Curator of Greek and Roman Art commented, “we are delighted to be able to share these remarkable artworks from the Kasser Mochary Art Foundation with our members and visitors here in Tampa. Many of the artists represented in this exhibition are among the most important of their time—true visionaries who changed the course of modern art history—and this is a rare opportunity to see their artworks together in a single exhibition. The shared focus on the human figure will resonate particularly well at this time in Tampa, exhibited alongside so many timeless figural works in our classical collection, on the one hand, and the contemporary figural sculptures of Jaume Plensa on the other. We thank the Kasser and Mochary families and the Kasser Mochary Art Foundation for sharing their collection with the Tampa Museum of Art and the entire Tampa Bay community.”

The Kasser Mochary Art Foundation was founded in 1968 by Alexander and Elisabeth Kasser with the mission of inspiring and promoting appreciation of the fine arts. The primary focus of the Foundation is to lend significant works of art to regional museums from its holdings of important 19th and 20th century European and American art. The Foundation has representatives in Vienna, Austria; Montclair, New Jersey; and Tucson, Arizona.

Artists in this exhibition include: Mary Cassatt, Lynn Chadwick, Marc Chagall, Jean Cocteau, Jóseph Csáky, Salvador Dali, Honore Daumier, Giorgio de Chirico, Edgar Degas, Eugene Delacroix, Raoul Dufy, Paul Gauguin, Alberto Giacometti, Oskar Kokoschka, Jacques Lipchitz, Edouard Manet, Henri Matisse, Joan Miro, Amedeo Modigliani, Henry Moore, Pablo Picasso, Jackson Pollock, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Diego Rivera, Auguste Rodin, Egon Schiele, Paul Signac, Alfred Sisley, Henri de Toulouse-Laurtrec, Andy Warhol, Max Weber, and more.