An exhibition titled “From Bohemianism to Eternity” opened Monday evening at the Center for Openness and Dialogue (COD) in Tirana, showcasing works by renowned figures of modern visual art, including Amedeo Modigliani, Henri Matisse, Edgar Degas, Tamara de Lempicka, and Kees van Dongen.
Prime Minister Edi Rama shared images from the exhibition, describing it as a unique display hosted at the COD, located within the Prime Minister’s Office. The exhibition, organized in cooperation with the MTA Foundation and the Embassy of Israel, will remain open to the public for two weeks.
The collection on display spans Modern Art, Fauvism, Art Deco, and the Avant-Garde, presenting works that are considered pivotal to the history of global visual art.
Highlights include van Dongen’s striking portrait of Marcelle Léoni and Modigliani’s painting of a young Swedish woman, Annie Bjarne. Sculpture is also featured prominently, with Degas’ famed “Little Dancer of Fourteen Years” — a bronze statue dressed in a fabric tutu — and Matisse’s bold plaster-and-bronze sculpture Aurora among the centerpiece works.
The collection is further enriched by a group of progressive Hungarian artists such as Bela Kadar, Lajos Tihanyi, Joseph Csaky, and Hugo Scheiber, alongside key figures from the German avant-garde including Hanns Bolz, Heinrich Nauen, Max Ackermann, Friedrich Gotsch, Boris Kleint, Oscar Moll, and the celebrated Gabriele Münter.