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“Claude Monet 1840-1926″
Grand Palais
From September 22nd to January 24th 2010

This is THE exhibition of the end of the year in Paris!

The Grand Palais presents 200 works of art from the father of Impressionism; the largest retrospective of Claude Monet for 30 years (the last one was in 1980). Attachment to nature, continuous repetition treated through Monet’s work on light effects, nostalgia and dream are the themes illustrated in a chronological and thematic display from the beginning of the 60’s to the last Water Lilies. Let you go by the mix of famous and unknown paintings that are thrilling testimonies of the transition from the 19th to the 20th century.

Due to exhibition success, we highly recommend to buy tickets online before your visit to avoid queuing.

Claude Monet 1840-1926
Until January 24th 2010
Grande Palais
3 avenue du Général Eisenhower
75008 Paris
Tél : 00 33 1 44 13 17 17 (answering service)

www.grandpalais.fr
www.monet2010.com

Today in the Creative Spirit section, enjoy a drawing signed by a customer who left a deep footprint at the Hotel Aiglon. This is the British drawer and cartoonist Ronald Searle who designed this flying cat “Chataiglon”.

Mr Searle spent his career working for the New Yorker and Life magazine expressing his satirical eye on society. Drawings he made during his captivity in Singapore from 1941 to 1945 are a precious testimony of the daily reality during the 2^nd world war. He is now recognized as a prolific artist who constantly managed to exploit his talent through various styles.

Mr and Mrs Searle are loyal customers of the hotel Aiglon for 35 years. So loyal that a suite has been renamed “the Searle Suite”.  The artist has offered three lithographies for this room which confer a strong and unique personality to the place.

This article is also a way to thank Mr and Mrs Searle for their loyalty.

The Searle Suite at the Hotel Aiglon

« Yves Saint Laurent retrospective »
Petit Palais
From March 11th to August 29th 2010

Two year after his death, le Petit Palais presents a retrospective of Yves Saint Laurent’s 40-year career. 300 haute couture and ready-to-wear creations illustrate the fashion genius fascinating record.

Smoking for women, safari jacket, dress inspired by the painter Mondrian: Saint Laurent’s proposals managed to be women liberty and equality manifesto while sublimating them. “Fashions fade, style is eternal” said Yves Saint Laurent…this retrospective shows a style designer work

Yves Saint Laurent
Jusqu’au 29 août 2010
Petit Palais
Avenue Winston Churchill
75008 Paris
Tél : 01 53 43 40 00
www.yslretrospective.com
www.petitpalais.paris.fr

Due to exhibition success, we highly recommend to buy tickets online before your visit to avoid queing.

Today, Paris’ creative spirit takes place at the Hotel d’Orsay with this Eiffel Tower, so emblematic of the city of lights.

One of the hotel’s customer spontaneously illustrated his journey with this drawing and we want to share it with you.

If you want to discover an interesting zoo in the heart of Paris, go to « Les Lalanne » exhibition featured by the Musée des arts décoratifs. The creating process of this inseparable artist couple (Claude and Francois-Xavier) always got inspired from nature mixed to a « useful » dimension.

The result in an amazing bestiary going from the rhinocéros- secretary to the hippopotamus-bathroom, from the baboon-fireplace to the fly-toilets. The architect Peter Marino, loyal and devoted admirer of the Lalanne’s work for more than 30 years, laid out the whole.

“Les Lalanne” Exhibition is an unbelievable imagination bubble to savor until the 4th of July.

« Les Lalanne»
Until July 4th 2010

Musée des Arts décoratifs
107 rue de Rivoli 
75001 Paris
Tel: 00 33 (0)1 44 55 57 50

www.lesartsdecoratifs.fr