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"DoubleTake: From Monet to Lichtenstein," the exhibit of 28 works from Paul Allen's collection, will remain on display at the Experience Music Project through the end of the year.
The show, which opened April 8, pairs works from such Impressionist and post-Impressionist artists as Claude Monet, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Edgar Dégas and Vincent van Gogh, with pieces by such modern and contemporary artists as Pablo Picasso, Mark Rothko, Jasper Johns and Roy Lichtenstein.
"We've enjoyed upwards of 400 visitors a day since the opening of 'DoubleTake,' numbers we're happy with and hope to sustain or improve upon, especially during the holiday season," said EMP spokesman Christian Quilici.
The exhibit had been scheduled to close Sept. 24. The new closing date is Jan. 1.
Admission to the show is $8, which does not include admission to EMP or the adjacent Science Fiction Museum. During the extension, free admission will be available on Thursdays for members of EMP, the Sci-Fi Museum, Seattle Art Museum, Tacoma Art Museum, Henry Art Gallery and the Frye Museum.
The show gives the public a glimpse at part of Allen's previously extremely private art collection.
The Microsoft billionaire asked the curator, Paul Hayes Tucker, a scholar of Impressionism from Boston's University of Massachusetts, to focus the show on Impressionism and Post-Impressionism.
Instead, Tucker wanted to suggest the breath of Allen's holdings.
He came up with the concept of pairing paintings.
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