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Past Special Exhibition 2024

Shiseido Art House Collection 2024
2nd phase of exhibition

・Masterpieces of Vintage Perfume Bottles 2024 ― Focusing on Lalique, Baccarat and Viard
・Selection 2024 from ‘Crafts for All of Us’ Exhibition ― From Autumn to Winter
・Sculptors Who Also Paint ― Paintings and Solid Fabrication by Sculptors

September 5(Thu) — November 23(Sat), 2024

The main feature of this 3-part exhibition will be its Vintage Perfume Bottle Masterpieces Exhibition 2024 — Focusing on Lalique, Baccarat, and Viard. Here, we will be introducing the timeless beauty of perfume bottles, which are often considered to be the incomparable gems of the commercial arts.
During the period extending from the late 19th century through to the 1940s, these elegant perfume bottles were custom-made for France’s leading Parisian perfume merchants as vessels for their own products. Currently, these not only hold great significance for their highly esteemed artistic quality, but also in terms of the history of cosmetic culture and perfume history. Shiseido has been methodically collecting vintage perfume bottles since 1986, in response to a proposal by Serge Lutens, a French creator active in a wide range of fields including fragrance, cosmetics and film.
From this collection of nearly 300 unique pieces, Shiseido’s exhibition presents approximately 100 items selected from among the most rare and valuable creations by René Lalique, the Baccarat company and Julien Viard.
The Shiseido Art House will also be holding Selection 2024 from the Crafts for All of Us Exhibition ― From Autumn to Winter, which has been reassembled by carefully selecting works from the complete series of the Crafts for All of Us exhibitions held at the Shiseido Art House Museum between 2015 and 2023.
Additionally, the exhibition Sculptors Also Paint ― Paintings and 3D Modeling by Sculptors will also be held at the same time, showcasing figurative sculptures by such artists as Katsura Funakoshi, Tadayoshi Sato, and Marino Marini, together with paintings by the same selection of artists.
We hope that these exhibitions—which distill the essence of the Shiseido Art House Museum’s diverse collection—will bring a sense of the 'joy of viewing' to as many people as possible.

Shiseido Art House Collection 2024
1st phase of exhibition

・Spring Paintings and Crafts ― Together with Poetry
・Selection 2024 from ‘Crafts for All of Us’ Exhibition ― From Spring to Summer
・Man Ray Exhibition ― A Focus on Portraits

March 1(Fri) — June 1(Sat), 2024

The Shiseido Art House will hold its 2024 exhibitions divided into 1st and 2nd Phases in order to introduce a more expanded variety of works from the museum's collection.
The main portion of the 1st phase of the exhibition will center on Spring Paintings and Crafts — Together with Poetry, and combine Japanese and Western paintings, works of contemporary art, and crafts from a variety of fields.
Artwork based on the theme of early to late spring will be introduced along with poems about spring written both in Japan and abroad, which brings to the present day the fundamental traditions of Japanese art, something that has been closely connected with literature since ancient times.
Of the 13 artists exhibiting representational paintings, nine are recipients of the Order of Culture, and in the crafts category all nine are also Living National Treasures (holders of important intangible cultural properties), making for a small but densely packed exhibition.
Other features include Selection 2024 from the Crafts for All of Us Exhibition ― From Spring to Summer, which has been carefully reconstructed by selecting works from the Crafts for All of Us exhibition held at this very museum from 2015 to 2023. We will also be introducing the Man Ray Exhibition — A Focus on Portraits, which will assemble a collection of portraits and objects, including rare original prints by Man Ray (1890 – 1976), who was engaged in numerous artistic activities centered on photography.