When Aristide Maillol died, Dina Vierny, who was his Muse and his companion, decided to create a foundation. This foundation was inaugurated in 1995. The Musée Maillol gathers together a collection of drawings, engravings, paintings and sculptures of the artist, but also his personal collection in which we can find some works of art by Ingres, Cézanne, Matisse, Degas or Picasso.
The museum regularly organizes temporary exhibitions dedicated to antique and modern art, but also to contemporary art and to the major artists of the 20th century.
The Quai Branly Museum or Museum of arts and civilizations in Africa, Asia, Oceania and America, devised and designed by Jean Nouvel, is made of four buildings which are linked together by footbridges.
This cultural place is set under the patronage of the UNESCO. Its ambition is to acknowledge the major place occupied by civilizations, sometimes kept on the sidelines of the present culture of the world. This museum gives people much to see and think about.
The National Museum of the Middle Ages is settled down in two exceptional Parisian monuments: the Gallo-Roman thermae (1st and 2nd centuries) and the Hotel of the abbots of Cluny (end of the 15thcentury). The collections enable people to go through almost fifteen centuries of art and architecture : Romanesque architecture, Gothic sculpture, paintings, stained-glass windows, the famous tapestries of the Dame à la Licorne.
The medieval garden shows the different facets of the garden as it used to be during the Middle Ages, both wild and organized.
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The Musée Bourdelle is the studio where Antoine Bourdelle lived and worked for four years. The museum takes up the whole space: apartments, studio and garden. The place was turned into a museum in 1949. Then two expansions were made by Henri Gautruche in 1961 and by Christian de Portzamparc in 1992. More than 500 sculpted works of art are scattered over the rooms and the garden of the museum. But many temporary exhibitions of contemporary artists are also presented : Luciano Fabro, Felice Varini, Henry Moore, Alain Séchas …
Since its opening in 1997, the Community Arts Center of Japan has offered the public to discover all the facets of the traditional and contemporary Japanese culture, thanks to its various activities : exhibitions, live performances, cinema and courses, tea ceremony, cookery, ikebana, calligraphy, Go game, origami …
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A family garden, where children can play and run, and where we can picnic or have a nap in the grass, because the vast lawns bordered with lime trees and poplars are hidden behind the high stone wall of the Rue de Babylone. It is a real orchard that kept all the charm of the convent garden of which it preserved the cross-shaped line.
This terraced garden is particularly intimate, hidden at the bottom of the Rue Récamier, which is a residential dead end street sheltered from the surrounding tumult. It was built in 1933 at the place where the convent of the Abbaye-aux-Bois used to be, and where Madame Récamier withdrew to end her days. What makes this garden unique is the majestic fig tree at the entrance, but also the weeping beech and the sophora which dominates the shrubs with sweet-smelling flowers. Periwinkles, rhododendrons and heather, which flower in autumn, cover the mounds. You will only hear the birdsong and the noise of the water of a small waterfall.
Delacroix’s studio (which has become a museum), Serge Aboukrat’s art gallery, the sublime shop windows of the material designers, and its four trees which make it really romantic in the spring time : the Place Furstenberg is the meeting place of beautiful materials lovers and of lovers in general. Today, its postcard beauty and its peaceful atmosphere are what make it still so special.
In Paris, New York and Shanghai, the Dumonteil Gallery presents a selection of design pieces, sculptures, paintings and photographs around the theme of Animals and Nature.
Great Masters like François Pompon, Georges-Lucien Guyot, Bugatti, Diego Giacometti, Charles Artus, Marcel Derny, Pablo Picasso, Armand Petersen and Joseph Czaky, and contemporary artists, Jean-Marie Fiori, Helmut Koller, Eric Pillot, Jean- Claude Meynard, Rubén Fuentes, Hubert le Gall or Wang Keping,
Galerie DUMONTEIL
38, rue de l´Université 75007 Paris 01 42 61 23 38
The Jeu de Paume is an artistic venue exclusively dedicated to contemporary photography, video art, experimental film and documentary essay.
The Jeu de Paume produces, co-produces and houses exhibitions, film festivals, conferences, educational activities and publications. It also supports internet creation hosting web-based projects on its website.
The history of the place is quite eventful: it was created in 1862 during the 2nd Empire as the first Parisian venue dedicated to the practice of the racket game regarded as the precursor of tennis. So as to keep a sense of aesthetic continuity, it was modelled after the neighbouring building, l’Orangerie. The early 20th century saw the rise of tennis and the venue was transformed into an exhibition gallery. From 1922 to 1929, it served as an annex of the Musée du Luxembourg. During World War II, the Jeu de paume was used as storage and sorting house for stolen artworks and it housed impressionist artworks between 1947 and 1986 before the Musée d’Orsay opened along with the Louvre. Finally in 2004, it became dedicated to supporting photographic creation and image.
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Académies, a school, a style, known and imitated in the whole world ; The Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Beaux Arts is the heiress to a long history, started with the foundation of the Royal Académies of painting and sculpture in 1648 by Louis XIV, then of architecture in 1671. This institution is one of the latest to house under the same roof a modern education intended for the formation of future artists and collections made of 450 000 works of art, accumulated during its three hundred and fifty years of existence, which are also presented in exhibitions inside the school.
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The aim of this institution is to show the work of Henri Cartier-Bresson but it is also open to other artists, sculptors, painters, drawers or film-makers, modern and contemporary artists whose work are linked with the spirit of what Cartier-Bresson wanted to create and promote.
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