Beau Regards from Paris! Post-Impressionist Views by Donald Beauregard

Opening for Beau Regards from Paris! Post-Impressionist Views by Donald Beauregard at the New Mexico Museum of Art on Friday, November 18, 2011, 5:30-7:30 p.m.

The exhibition presents Post-Impressionist paintings by this New Mexico painter who is well known as the designer of the murals in St. Francis Auditorium.

These works define a curious aesthetic moment when the intense, clashing colors of Post-Impressionist painting raged in Paris. The workers and peasants of France attracted Beauregard, just as Pueblo subjects captivated Paris-trained academic painters to New Mexico. Unfortunately, Beauregard died from cancer in 1914 before he could combine his newly acquired modernist style with New Mexico subjects.

Refreshments provided by the Women's Board. Admission is free for this Free Friday Evening Event.