“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

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

Some of our customers sometimes draw in the hotel visitor’s book to express feelings about their stay.

We would like to share with you these pieces of humor, spontaneity and creativity with the “Creative spirit” section.

Translation: “I always stay at the Hotel Mansart”. Pun with the verb “descends” which means “go down” in a different context.

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

From January the 13th to April the 18th, the Henri Cartier-Bresson Foundation, just a stone’s throw from the Hotel Aiglon, presents « Robert Doisneau, From craft to art». The exhibition shows about hundred prints of Robert Doisneau closely linked to Paris and street scenes taken between 1930 and 1966.

Doisneau’s photographs are immortalized life instants. And he treats here its favorite subject: Paris and its suburbs. The irresistible talent of the one that claimed he “photographed to survive” grabing the right instant, press on the button on the right moment is amazing. The spectator guesses the pleasure that “the poacher of transience” should feel hunting the best picture while going all over town.

This is finally “real life” which is exhibited to the Henri Cartier-Bresson Foundation: children laughs and plays, a passer-by’s jump or pace. That is what raised Doisneau’s photographs from a craft to an art.

Expressions of faces and dynamic of movements expressed on Doisneau’s subjects could be from 2010. This timeless aspect and the human universal arouse a beautiful emotion while visiting this exhibition.

Robert Doisneau , « From craft to art »
From January the 13th to April the 18th

Henri Cartier-Bresson Foundation
2 impasse Lebouis
75014 Paris
www.henricartierbresson.org

In Paris, until March 14, 2010, the Bourdelle Museum presents an ambitious exhibition dedicated to Isadora Duncan (1877-1927), a pioneer figure of dance.

Autodidact born on the coast of California, this bold, modern woman put her art at the heart of a project of a society based on more freedom and democracy. Defying convention, Isadora danced barefoot, wearing a tunic revealing her nudity.

Sculptures, paintings and drawings by Antoine Bourdelle, Auguste Rodin, José Clarà, Rik Wouters, Jules Grandjouan, Andre Dunoyer de Segonzac, Abraham Walkowitz, illustrate the revolutionary art of Isadora. These artists, fascinated by the expressiveness of her dance empathy with nature and music, have sought to capture the force of it.

Isadora Duncan by Antoine Bourdelle

While restoring the artistic and intellectual context of an era, many photographs, books and documents also help to trace the tumultuous life and career of Isadora, her world tours and dance schools.

In the gardens and studios where Antoine Bourdelle (1861-1929) lived and worked, the Bourdelle museum also houses an outstanding collection of plaster, bronze and marble works of art of the artist.

The extension made in 1992 by the architect Christian de Portzamparc gives full dimension to the work of this great sculptor, who was a contemporary of Rodin, and also Giacometti’s master.

Musée Bourdelle
18, rue Antoine Bourdelle
75015 Paris
Tél : 01 49 54 73 73

Through March 14, 2010