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The Maillol Museum, in Paris, presents a comprehensive overview of the Russian avant-garde painters of the 1910-1930 period.
A superb selection of oil paintings, watercolors and drawings, from the collection Costakis, tracks the incredible creativity and the diversity of artists that marked symbolism, suprematism, constructivism and the beginning of the return to figuration in the late 20s, before socialist realism returned in an authoritarian way.

Alongside of now famous artists - Malevich, Popova, Klioun, Rodtchenko, Lissitzky, Tatlin – one discovers the works, often surprising, of unknown painters and displayed in France for the first time, such as Kudriashev, Redko, Matiouchine, Ender, Filonov, Nikritine …

The lithograph presented on the previous page is by Lissitsky (1919).
The painting presented on this page is by Rodtchenko (1920).

Fondation Dina Vierny- Musée Maillol
61 rue de Grenelle
75007 Paris
Metro station: rue du Bac

Tel: 01 42 22 59 58
Through March 2^nd 2009

The new generation of Chinese artists to be discovered…
through July 4 2009, in particular at the Hotel d’Orsay and the Hotel des Saints Pères.
Making art accessible to a large public, the Gallerie 208 Chicheportiche, with the Chinese cultural Center and  the city hall of the 7th arrondissement of Paris, exhibits modern Chinese art in various luxurious places of the district.

Among these venues, two Hotels Esprit de France welcome paintings from Tuo Guang Yan, at the Hotel d’Orsay, and Liu Yang, at the Hotel des Saints Pères.

The Hotel des Saints Pères also hosts an astonishing sculpture, named “Invisibility”, by Shu Xing Chuan.

Through May 4 2009

Hôtel d’Orsay. 93 rue de Lille. 75007 Paris. Tel: 01 47 05 85 54
Hôtel des Saints Pères. 65 rue des Saints Pères . 75006 Paris. Tél: 01 45 44 50 00

Through May 2nd, at the galerie Darthea Speyer, in Paris, Roselyne Granet exhibits
some powerful works of art.

Marcelin Pleynet explains: “The movement that lives in the works of the Roselyne Granet is part of a quasi-Baroque lyricism; it is very special and unusual both in modern art and in contemporary art.
Her work retains first because it is inhabited. It creates a world that appeals to our memory … that poetically lives in us. ”

Galerie Darthea Speyer
6 rue Jacques Callot. 75006 Paris
Until the 2nd of May 2009

From Tuesday to Friday:11a.m to 12.45 and from 2 p.m to 7 p.m
Saturday:from 11 p.m to 7 p.m

Until the 6th of June 2009, the Musée du Louvre presents a most interesting collection of artefacts linked to the “Gates of Heaven”. In the Ancient Egyptian language, this expression meant the doors of a sanctuary housing the statue of a divinity.
Symbolizing the passageway into the afterworld, it also applies to other points of contact between the different elements of the universe as conceived by the Egyptians.

Containing about 350 items spanning three millennia, from the Old Kingdom to the Roman Period, the exhibition endeavours to place everyday objects in their social, religious and artistic context.

Through 6th June 2009

Musée du Louvre
Hall Napoleon
34 Quai du Louvre
75001 Paris
Open daily, except on Mondays, from 9 a.m to 6 p.m, and until 8 p.m on Saturdays and 10 p.m on Wednesdays and Fridays

A splendid exhibition at Les Galeries nationales du Grand Palais, in Paris.

All his life, Picasso was inspired by the masterpieces of painting. The influence of the great masters like Titian, Goya, Renoir and Manet is revealed here in an outstanding exhibition that presents over 200 works from the most prestigious French, foreign, public and private collections.
“Picasso and the masters” juxtaposes past and present, illustrates the major changes of direction and formal innovations that marked Picasso’s career, while proposing a dialogue between the artist and his predecessors.

This angle on Picasso’s achievements sheds a new light on the work of the founder of cubism.

Through February 2. 2009

Above: Madame Moitessier, by Ingres. 1856