From November 15, 2025, to May 10, 2026, the Santa Caterina Museum hosts “From Picasso to Van Gogh – Stories of Painting from Abstraction to Impressionism,” an exhibition that brings over sixty works from the Toledo Museum in Ohio, one of the most important centers of twentieth-century art, to Europe for the first time.
The exhibition is an extraordinary journey back in time, a journey through art from twentieth-century American abstraction to European Impressionism, in a constant dialogue between the two sides of the Atlantic. Through extraordinary masterpieces—landscapes, portraits, figures in settings, and still lifes—the origins of abstraction and its origins are explored.
The exhibition juxtaposes works by Piet Mondrian and Reinhardt, the geometrical works of Josef Albers, the landscapes of William Merritt Chase, and extends all the way to Cézanne, Monet, and Gauguin. The exhibition concludes with Vincent van Gogh’s famous painting, “Auvers, Wheatfields with a Mower,” to which the final space of the exhibition is entirely dedicated.
The exhibition is open Tuesday through Thursday, 9:00 AM to 6:00 PM, and Friday through Sunday, 9:00 AM to 7:00 PM.
