September 15th 2017 to April 8th 2018 Between drawing and painting, pastel works are a form of art which are less known to most audiences. They are faster to make than paintings but extremely fragile to both light and vibrations, harder to conserve, hence the reason why we see much less of them in exhibitions. Because they […]
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Intimate Rembrandt Exhibition, September 16th 2016 to January 23rd 2017, Jacquemart Andre Museum, 128 bd. Haussmann, 75008 Paris, Open every day, 10am to 6pm, and until 8:30pm on Mondays Parisians have long been spoiled by the wealth of their options for seeing works of Rembrandt, including some of his most important works. Many are in […]
From October 22nd 2016 to March 5th 2017, Louis Vuitton Foundation Open 11am to 8pm on week days and 9am to 9pm on Saturdays and Sundays. Closed on Tuesdays. Adress: 8, av. Mahatma Gandhi 75116 – phone 00 33 1 40 69 96 00 This exhibition is a rarety: it focuses on one of […]
Eugene Boudin is a great artist whose creativity has often been damned with faint praise, as in the paean ‘King of the skies.’ He is not usually recognized as a major influence in the evolution of western art and the fact that he has not been the subject of a single retrospective since 1899 is […]
For lovers of art who would like a change of exhibition pace, Paris currently offers something very original—unless you have spent time in England—as well as very appealing: an exhibition of art from Victorian England. Would it be an extension of that era’s morality? The answer, provided by this exhibition of works of English artists […]
One of the most compelling art exhibitions I have ever seen is now showing in Paris at the Orsay Museum, until July 6th, “Van Gogh/Artaud, The Man Suicided by Society.” The title translates awkwardly into English, especially if you do not subscribe to the ideas that Vincent killed himself, or that he was insane, which […]
Admirers of Impressionism will love the exposition now showing at the Marmottan Monet Museum in Paris until 18 January 2015, “Monet’s Impression, Sunrise. The biography of a painting.” It not only reveals many fascinating aspects of that iconic painting’s trajectory as one of the most recognized paintings in history, which also gave birth to the […]
Villa Flora, Enchanted Times, Manet, Renoir, Cézanne, Van Gogh, Bonnard, Vuillard, Valloton, Matisse… Masterworks from the Arthur and Hedy Hahnloser collection, from September 10th 2015 to February 7th 2016, Marmottan Museum, 2, rue Louis- Boilly, 75016 Paris, Metro La Muette. RER Boulainvilliers – Line C. Bus 32,63, 22, 52, PC. Phone 01 44 96 50 33. Open […]
When it comes to contemporary art, the name Picasso is most eloquent, and comes in as a reference. For another few weeks, the Grand Palais museum in Paris hosts an original collection of 100 works of the master, exposed in a comparative perspective with another 200 great works from other masters, mostly disciples. The show […]
“De la caricature à l’affiche” – “From cartoon to Posterˮ Exposition running from February 18th to September 4th, 2016 Museum of Decorative Arts 107 rue de Rivoli, 75007 Paris Open Tuesday to Sunday, 11am-6pm Illustration: Henri-Gustave Jossot, Album, Mince de trognes, 1896, P. Ollendorff library. Most will agree our world is […]
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