published on August 31, 2010
“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
published on May 21, 2010
« 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.
published on April 16, 2010
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
published on April 2, 2010
Do not miss the exhibition « Turner and his painters » proposed by the Galeries nationales du Grand Palais until May 24th 2010. You will discover about hundred work of Turner and many other painters.
Why other painters?
This is the topic of the exhibition that proposes an interpretation of Turner’s work through artists from whom he drew inspiration and those he rejected to build its own style. Paintings full of light and raging storms: admire at the Grand Palais the completed style of Turner, successful result of confrontation and exchange.
« Turner and his painters »
Until May 24th 2010
Galeries Nationales du Grand Palais
3, avenue du Général-Eisenhower
75008 Paris
Tel : 00 33 1 44 13 17 17
www.grandpalais.fr
published on February 16, 2010
EXTENDED UNTIL AUGUST THE 8TH. From February the 19th to July the 18th, the Pinacothèque presents “Edvard Munch or the Anti-Scream”. The 100 works exhibited represents the Norwegian artist’s first and larger retrospective in Paris, where he used to live.
Munch is mainly famous for “The scream”, a symbol of his melancholy. At the Pinacothèque you will discover the complete expressionist and colorful work of this major painter.
Edvard Munch or the Anti-scream
Until July the 18th
Pinacothèque de Paris
28, place de la Madeleine
75008 Paris
www.pinacotheque.com
