Exhibitions

• Edvard Munch or the Anti-scream
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  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 [...]
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• Robert Doisneau, From craft to art
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  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 [...]
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• Isadora Duncan, a living sculpture
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  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, [...]
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• Matisse & Rodin (over)
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  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 [...]
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• Tribute to Toulouse-Lautrec poster designer (over)
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  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 [...]
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• Renoir in the 20th century (over)
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  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 [...]
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• Bruegel, Memling, Van Eyck … The collection Brukenthal (over)
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  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 [...]
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• As red as possible…(over)
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  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. [...]
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• The portraiture, Rodin facing his models (over)
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  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 [...]
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• Le Petit Palais, Musée des Beaux-Arts de la Ville de Paris
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  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 [...]
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