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

In Paris, the Rodin Museum places side by side until the 28th of February 2010, two geniuses in the world of art: Auguste Rodin (1840-1917) and Henri Matisse (1869-1954).

A generation separates these two great creators; the first dominates the art of sculpture, the latter introduced decisive revolutions in the painting.
For the first time, the sculpted work of Matisse and a number of his drawings, are confronted with a selection of Rodin’s works.

Rodin. “La voix intérieure” (“The inside voice”). Circa 1894

For the first time, the sculpted work of Matisse and a number of his drawings, are confronted with a selection of Rodin’s works. The exhibition recalls the role that Matisse gave to sculpture and drawing, while simultaneously insisting on this parallel mode of expression that was drawing to Rodin.

Matisse. “La Serpentine”. 1909

This unprecedented artistic dialogue between Matisse and Rodin contributes to debates addressing in particular the link between sculpture and drawing, or the place of the nude in developing a visual language.

Musée Rodin
79, rue de Varenne
75007 Paris
Tél. 00 33 (0) 1 44 18 61 10

Through February 28th

The museum of Les Arts décoratifs – in the Louvre Palace, in Paris – exhibits Toulouse-Lautrec until the end of 2009.
Any exhibition of Toulouse-Lautrec’s posters is automatically a nostalgic celebration of the legendary Belle Epoque, when Montmartre and the Chat Noir were the artistic and entertainment centre of the world.
If these most famous creations continue to fascinate us today, it is because they have become part of our international collective memory.

At the same time as the posters designed by the artist between 1891 and 1900, are presented the works of one hundred contemporary designers from 24 countries; their works were carried out in 2001, on the occasion of the centenary of Toulouse Lautrec’s death.

Gathered under the title “New Salon des Cent”, these designers attest to the timeliness and the vitality of the contribution of Toulouse-Lautrec.
An exhibition not to be missed…

Through the 3rd of January, 2010

Musée des Arts décoratifs
107 rue de Rivoli
75001 Paris
Tel:0144 55 57 50

A must of this autumn in Paris!
The Galeries nationales du Grand Palais exhibit Pierre-Auguste Renoir, until the 4th of January 2010.
Entitled “Renoir in the 20th century”, the exhibition is designed to shed new light on little-known aspects of Renoir’s work while reaffirming the influence of his art throughout the first half of the 20th century in France.

In 1913, “I am beginning to learn how to paint. It has taken me over fifty years to get to this result, but there’s still a long way to go”, says the painter Pierre-Auguste Renoir (1841-1919).
Some one hundred Renoir paintings, drawings and sculptures are gathered together and are set against works by Picasso, Matisse, Maillol and Bonnard, giving an indication of the artist’s influence and legacy.

Until the 4th of January 2010

Galeries nationales du Grand Palais
Avenue Winston Churchill
75008 Paris

Underground stations: Franklin.D Roosevelt or Champs-Elysées-Clemenceau

The Jacquemart-Andre Museum hosts until the 11th of January 2010, the masterpieces of the prestigious collection Brukenthal, combining works of the great Flemish masters from the 15th century to the 17th century – Van Eyck, Jordaens, Bruegel, Memling or Teniers.

Samuel von Brukenthal (1721-1803) brought together a remarkable range of Flemish paintings from that time, then much sought after in Europe by art collectors.

The Flemish tavern, by David Teniers (1610-1690)

You will particularly admire fascinating portraits by Hans Memling and Jan van Eyck, some breathtaking landscapes of Pieter Bruegel the Elder and Pieter Brueghel the Younger, the symbolic of the still lifes by Jan de Heem Davidsz, the powerful realism of David Teniers, and the poetry of chiaroscuro in the religious painting by Jacob Jordaens.

Baron Samuel von Brukenthal retained all of his collection in his home in Sibiu, Romania. During his lifetime, he converted his palace into a veritable museum, which was one of the first in Romania.

Until the 11th of January 2010

Musée Jacquemart-André
158, bd Haussmann 75008 Paris
Tel. : 01 45 62 11 59

The musée des Arts décoratifs, in the Louvre Palace, in Paris, drawing solely from its collections, features through november the 1st, the colour red, in all its dimensions, its perceptions.
The exhibition explores numerous domains in which red is an inescapable element, and the different symbolisms of this colour in all societies down the ages.

‘To say the ‘colour red’ is almost a pleonasm. Red is the colour par excellence […] the first of all colours’ (Michel Pastoureau, Dictionnaire des couleurs de notre temps).

Above: straw hat with indented peak, by David Shilling (1989)

Among the themes evoked are danger, hell, pleasure, power, luxury, dressing in red, the timelessness of red in the decorative arts and the various techniques and materials of red. A colour that symbolizes also fire and blood…

Musée des Arts décoratifs (Palais du Louvre)
The study Gallery

107, rue de Rivoli
75001 Paris
Phone reception: +33 (0)1 44 55 57 50

Through 1^st of November 2009

Until the 23rd of August, the Rodin Museum honors portraiture through the exhibition ‘The Making of the portrait, Rodin meet his models’. It highlights the creative process and the artist’s approach in the construction of his final work.

Claire de Choiseul, study, earthenware

Moulded out of the same clay, the faces of Baudelaire, Clemenceau, Balzac, stand alongside those of the bourgeois of the late 19^th century. On this occasion, the Rodin museum took out of its reserves many restored pieces, some of which are shown to the public for the first time.

Madame Garnier, earthenware

Public or private, commemorative or intimate, the sculptor has created throughout his career portraits of great diversity – artists, politicians, bankers, loved women, socialites, French and foreign, every last one of these faces, contemporary of Rodin, immortalized and presented in one exhibition.

Moreover, to visit the Rodin museum at this time of the year is a must, for the park is blooming and a nice restaurant welcomes you in an remarkable setting, strewn with Rodin’s masterpieces…

Musée Rodin
79 rue de Varennes
75007 Paris

Tel: 01 44 18 61 10

Through 23rd of August 2009

To discover or rediscover during summer…

In an area completely renovated, combining modernity and the 1900 spirit, daylight highlights the collections.

You will go back in time, from the 1900 art to Ancient Greece and Rome, and understand how great moments in the history of Western art combine with the technical and artistic innovations, to produce masterpieces.

In this new place of art, creativity and conviviality, paintings, sculptures and art objects testify.

You will then certainly enjoy the charm of the interior garden with its pools lined with mosaics, its colonnades and its coffee shop.

Le Petit Palais
Avenue du Président Winston-Churchill – 75008 Paris
Tel : 00 33 1 53 43 40 00

Site : www.petitpalais.paris.fr

Open every day except Mondays and days off, from 10am to 6pm.

Metro
Lines: 13 or 1. Station: Champs-Elysées-Clemenceau

Bus
Line 72 . Bus stop: Grand Palais