The 12,000-piece collection -- which is the preeminent art collection in the West -- includes Renaissance, Old Master and Modern paintings by a wide range of stellar artists; exquisite sculpture from South Asia, shown to remarkable advantage; a display of 14 paintings and pastels by Edgar Degas, plus 36 bronzes posthumously cast directly from his original waxes. Even a room largely dedicated to some fine examples of postwar art made in L.A.
Prized piece: The stark but limpid "Still Life With Lemons, Oranges and a Rose" by Spanish painter Francisco de Zurbarán (1598-1664) is among the Simon's most prized and celebrated possessions -- a signature work for the museum.
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Norton Simon Museum of Art
Hours: Mon., Wed.-Thu., Sat.-Sun., noon-6 p.m.; Fri., noon-9 p.m.; closed Tue.  Cross street: Orange Grove Boulevard Current, Upcoming
Through Dec. 8 An exhibition marking the 45th anniversary of the Pasadena Museum of Art retrospective of the Dadaist's work. May. 17 Martha Lucy, a fellow at the great Barnes Foundation in Merion, PA, lectures on collector Albert C. Barnes' obsessive, almost indiscrimate regard for Auguste Renoir's paintings (he bought 180 of them). Venue Details
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