“Ocean: Diving into the Unknown”
“Now in its fifth year, this exhibit unveils the world of stunning creatures and all the biodiversity of the deep”.
“Now in its fifth year, this exhibit unveils the world of stunning creatures and all the biodiversity of the deep”.
The Musée Maillol pays tribute to the great naïve masters in this exhibit. “Referred to as ‘modern primitives’ by one of their greatest proponents, the art collector and critic Wilhelm Uhde (1874-1947), these artists reinvented painting in their own way, separate from the avant-gardes and academics”.
The later works of Francis Bacon, from 1971 to 1992, evoke the painter’s new literary influences. “Powerful voices read aloud the French and English texts of Eschyle, Nietzsche, Bataille, Leiris, Conrad and Eliot. These authors, who all played a role in inspiring Bacon’s works and designs, share a poetic universe, and form a sort of […]
This exhibit, composed of masterpieces from the Tate Britain, “highlights a key period in the history of painting in England, from the 1760’s to ca. 1820”. It seeks to create a “panorama demonstrating all of its originality and diversity”.
The figurative era of Piet Mondrian is revealed in this exhibit, composed of some sixty drawings and paintings from the collection of Salomon B. Slijper. These include landscapes, flowers, and portraits of the artist, best perceived as a colourist and luminist, and not just an abstract painter.
The Musée Jacquemart-André is featuring one of the world’s most valuable and secret private art collections of the Italian Renaissance: the Alana collection (from 13 September 2019 to 20 January 2020). Conserved in the United States, the collection of Alvaro Saieh and Ana Guzmán, or the ‘Alana collection’, is unveiled to the public for the […]
The Opera de Paris was the favourite subject of Edgar Degas, a French impressionist and naturalist painter; he painted it from many angles between 1860 and his death in 1917. The Musée d’Orsay is dedicating an exhibit to this theme for the first time.
Balzac, the novelist, and Grandville, the cartoonist, brought together in an exhibit at the Maison de Balzac.