The Water Lilies. American Abstract Painting and the last Monet

monet_nympheas_bleus Musée de L'Orangerie

 

In 1955, Alfred Barr brought one of Monet’s large panels of Water Lilies (W1992) into the collection of the Museum of Modern Art in New York, at a time when these great “decorations”, still in the studio in Giverny, were beginning to attract the attention of collectors and museums.

 

tion Américaine Musée de l'Orangerie

 

Monet was presented at that time as “a bridge between the naturalism of early Impressionism and the highly developed school of Abstract Art” in New York, with his Water Lilies seen in the context of Pollock’s paintings, such as Autumn Rhythm (number 30), 1950. The reception of these later Monet works resonated with American Abstract Expression then coming into the museum collections. At the same time, the idea of “Abstract Impressionism” was forged.
The exhibition at the Musée de l’Orangerie focuses on this precise moment – when the great decorations of the master of Giverny were rediscovered and the New York School of Abstract Art was recognised – with a selection of some of Monet’s later works and around twenty major paintings by American artists such as Jackson Pollock, Mark Rothko, Barnett Newman, Clyfford Still, Helen Frankenthaler, Morris Louis, Philip Guston, Joan Mitchell, Mark Tobey, Sam Francis, Jean-Paul Riopelle and Ellsworth Kelly.

 

 

At the entrance to the Water Lilies, there is a tribute to Ellsworth Kelly, the American abstract artist who died in 2015 and whose work is still in dialogue with Monet’s. This display was designed by Eric de Chassey with the support of the American Friends of the Musée d’Orsay and the Musée de l’Orangerie.

 

Ellsworth kelly-water-lily Musée de l'Orangerie

 

 

April 13 – August 20, 2018

 

MUSEE DE L’ORANGERIE

Jardin des Tuileries

Place de la Concorde 75001 PARIS

01 44 77 80 07

 

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SAINT LAURENT

Mode, Fashion, Paris

For Yves Saint Laurent, the Left Bank was not just a place or a fragrance, but above all a state of mind. Today, we can no longer fully grasp the seismic impact of the opening of the Saint Laurent Rive Gauche boutique in Saint-Germain-des-Prés in 1966. Yet it was the first time a major couturier had created a ready-to-wear collection, and it was a true revolution in the world of fashion. Yves Saint Laurent took two great prides in his work: having established a genuine dialogue with women by refusing to impose a style on them, and having transposed masculine garments such as the tuxedo, the trench coat, the pea coat, and the safari jacket into a feminine universe, imbuing these garments with femininity and seduction, without any hint of androgyny. After Tom Ford (2000-2004), Stefano Pilati (2004-2012) and Hedi Slimane (2012-2016), it is now the Italian-Belgian Anthony Vaccarello who directs the collections of the House.

YVES SAINT-LAURENT PARIS

SPRING / SUMMER 2026

SAINT LAURENT

175 Boulevard Saint Germain 75006 Paris

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Ghosts and Hells The underworld in Asian art

The exhibition focuses its attention on Asian ghost stories, delving into the world of spirits, terror and fantastic creatures as it takes visitors on a journey to the edges of reality, through religious art, theatre, cinema, contemporary design and manga.

 

Musée du Quai Branly Exposition

 

From Buddhist to J-Horror, from Hokusai prints to Pac-Man, from the Thai spirit culture to horror manga, the figure of the ghost has haunted the Asian imagination for centuries. In China, Thailand and Japan – the lands that the exhibition focuses on – the popular infatuation with terror is very real, and one that permeates a wide variety of cultural productions.

From spirits that wander the forest, vengeful cat-women and hungry spirits that return from the dead (“the walking dead”) to jumping vampires and yokaïs (supernatural creatures in Japanese folklore), these can appear in multiple guises and play on artistic periods and media.

 

Musée du Quai Branly Exposition

 

Ghosts and Hells – the underworld in Asian art explores their omnipresence not only in objects and documents but also in the performing arts, cinema and comics in an attempt to better understand how they work. After all, whilst Buddhism has played its part in the formation of this imagination – implying that souls are in waiting between two reincarnations –, it is indeed on the fringes of religion, in popular and secular art, that the representation of ghosts has truly come into its own. 

 

 

until july 15, 2018

MUSEE DU QUAI BRANLY

37 quai Branly 75007 Paris

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LUCY GLENDINNING

ONLY HUMAN

 

 

After showing her work recently at the Villa Tamaris art center, the Château de Maisons and the Château du Rivau, British artist Lucy Glendinning returns to Galerie Da-End for her third solo exhibition, titled ‘Only Human’. Since the beginning of her career, she pursues protean researches on the representation of the human body, a theme that she mainly deploys in her sculptural work, but also in series of drawings that will be presented here.

 

 

Lucy Glendinning’s art stages the intrusion of fantastic within our everyday life, illustrating with brio the notion of uncanny conceptualized by Freud in 1919. Her half-animal half-human figures, somewhere between mythological stories and transhumanist experimentations, allow her to express her own epistemological and philosophical interrogations as for man’s place in nature.

 

 

May 12 – June 23, 2018

 

GALERIE DA END

17 rue Guénégaud 75006 Paris

01 43 29  48 64

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RODIN and DANCE

Exposition, Paris

MUSEE RODIN EXPOSITION

 

From the 1890s onward, the art of dance was transformed, with new experiences revolutionizing what was sometimes an urbane and codifi ed form of entertainment. Rodin’s keen interest in these innovations led him to meet such exceptional figures as Hanako and Loïe Fuller. A particular highlight was his encounter with the dancers of the Cambodian royal ballet during their visit to Paris to perform at the World’s Fair.

 

EXPOSITION MUSEE RODIN

 

When they left, in the sculptor’s words, they “took the beauty of the world with them.” Inspired by his complicity with the shapers of this revolution, Rodin associated dance and sculpture, both of which explore the possibilities of the human body. He turned his attention to all forms of dance: regional and oriental folk dances, cabaret performances, outstanding contemporary dancers, and dance as it was practiced in Antiquity – an interest he shared with Isadora Duncan.

 

MUSEE RODIN EXPOSITION

The exhibition, centered on the “Dance Movements” series, will survey all Rodin’s research and experimentation. The sculptor used assemblages to convey the body’s tensions, inventing audacious portés that combine effects
of void and solid, balance and imbalance.

 

MUSEE RODIN EXPOSITION

 

Rodin’s creativity focused on expressing the life force of the body, its vital energy, strength and equilibrium – just as dance explores the body’s relationship with space and weightlessness through extension, flexibility and freedom of line.

 

 

 

until July 22, 2018

 

MUSÉE RODIN

77 rue de Varenne 75007 Paris

01 44 18 61 10

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CLAVE FINE ARTS

Antoine Clavé opened his gallery in 1921 in a unique location, César’s former studio redesigned by Japanese architect Kengo Kuma. Its exhibition program is varied, between the presentation of recognized and established artists and that of emerging artists with the aim of promoting the young talents of tomorrow.

Permanently presented artists : Jean Michel Basquiat, Louise Bourgeois, Alexander Calder, César, Eduardo Chillida, Christo, Antoni Clavé, Jean Dubuffet, Julio Gonzalez, Hans Hartung, Sheila Hicks, Yves Klein, Roberto Matta, Pablo Picasso, François Réau, Germaine Richier, Pierre Soulages, Antoni Tapies, Marie Helena Viera da Silva, Zao Wou-Ki

Clavé Fine Art

10 bis rue Roger 75014 Paris

01 88 40 44 30


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FRANZ MARC / AUGUST MACKE

The adventure of the Blue Rider

August Macke, “Paysage avec vaches, voilier, et figures”, 1914

This exhibition presents two major figures of German Expressionism and the Der Blaue Reiter [The Blue Rider] movement, Franz Marc (1880-1916) and August Macke (1887-1914). These artists forged a friendship in 1910 based on their shared interest in French art and more specifically in Cézanne, Van Gogh, Gauguin and Fauvism, who they discovered during their time in Paris. Both expressed the same spiritual fascination for landscapes and nature in their initial paintings, often painted “en plein air”.

Franz Marc, Le Rêve (Der Traum), 1912

Their paintings took a more radical, stylised turn when they met Vassily Kandinsky in 1911 and founded the Der Blaue Reiter Almanach [The Blue Rider Almanac]. Franz Marc abandoned plein air painting in favour of his famous blue horses which inspired the title of the almanac. While Marc co-edited the Almanach with Kandinsky, August Macke compiled the ethnographic visuals and wrote a study on African masks. Highly active in their field, they also helped organise international avant-garde exhibitions like the ones held in Cologne in 1912, and in Berlin in 1913, while continuing to develop their art. As part of this evolution, Franz Marc turned to Abstract art in 1913 under the influence of the Italian Futurists exhibition and Robert Delaunay’s paintings. Macke, for his part, moved away from Kandinsky’s intellectual spirituality and towards a clearer relationship between humans and nature, particularly during his travels to Tunisia with Paul Klee.

Franz Marc, The First Animals 1913

Drafted in 1914, both artists were killed in combat leaving unfinished yet emblematic works that represent the hedonist, colourful and seductive side of German Expressionism.

March, 6 – June 17, 2019

MUSEE de L’ORANGERIE

Place de la Concorde, Jardin des Tuileries 75001 Paris

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JULIE DE LIBRAN

Designed as both a store and a workshop, Julie de Libran speaks of a “workshop/boutique” where she welcomes her clients into her world. Her limited-edition Ready-to-Wear collections, her jewelry, her Couture collection (by appointment), everything is there. The woman who was the artistic director of the house of Sonia Rykiel for five years after collaborating with Gianfranco Ferré, Gianni Versace, Prada and Louis Vuitton presents the chic, sophisticated or casual wardrobe of the Parisian woman as we imagine her around the world.

JULIE DE LIBRAN

3 rue de Luynes 75007 Paris

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SYMBOLISM IN THE BALTIC STATES

Ames Sauvages Exposition Musée d'Orsay Paris

 

The independent states that make up the Baltic countries, Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania, were established just after the end of the First World War. To celebrate this centenary, this exhibition presents Baltic Symbolism from the 1890s to the end of the 1920s.

 

Ames Sauvages Exposition Musée d'Orsay Paris

 

European Symbolism and the emancipation of consciousness that it disseminated are inseparable in the Baltic countries from their independence. This exhibition illustrates the interplay of influences and resistances through which artists forged a creative language appropriate to their intellectual world.

 

Ames Sauvages Exposition Musée d'Orsay Paris

 

 

Taking elements from popular culture, folklore and local legends, as well as from their unique landscapes, they have created a genuinely original art form.

 

Ames Sauvages Exposition Musée d'Orsay Paris

 

With the exception of the internationally renowned Lithuanian painter and composer Mikalojus Konstantinas Čiurlionis, the works of the majority of these artists are being shown outside their country for the first time.

 

 

April 10 – July 15, 2018

 

MUSEE D’ORSAY

1 Rue de la Légion d’Honneur, 75007 Paris

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DELACROIX

DELACROIX Exposition Musée du LOUVRE PARIS

 

In partnership with the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, in spring 2018, the Musée du Louvre will be hosting an exhibition dedicated to the artistic career of Eugène Delacroix. For the first time since the 1963 exhibition celebrating the 100-year anniversary of his death, this event will pool over 180 artworks by the artist, including a large number of paintings: from the young artist’s big hits at the Salon of 1820 up to his final less known and mysterious religious and landscape compositions.

 

DELACROIX Exposition Musée du LOUVRE PARIS

 

The exhibition will showcase the tensions that formed this artist, striving for individuality while driven by aspirations to follow in the footsteps of 16th- and 17th-century Flemish and Venetian artists. The installations and information provided will provide insight into his long, rife, and diverse career.

 

DELACROIX Exposition Musée du LOUVRE PARIS

 

Visitors will have the chance to familiarize themselves with this engaging character: infatuated by fame and devoted to his work; curious, critical, and cultivated; and a virtuoso writer, painter, and illustrator.

 

Tous les jours sauf le mardi de 9h à 18h Nocturne les mercredis, les vendredis jusqu’à 21h30

 

DELACROIX Exposition Musée du LOUVRE PARIS

 

 

March 29 – July 28, 2018

 

MUSEE DU LOUVRE

Every day except Tuesday, 9 AM – 6 PM
Late night on Wednesday, Friday until 9:30 PM

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7L

This bookshop created by Karl Lagerfeld presents a great selection of books about photography, decorative arts and architecture and some trendy magazines.

7L


7 rue de Lille 75007 Paris

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Galerie YVES & VICTOR GASTOU

Design, Gallery, Paris

Yves Gastou is a specialist for furniture and sculpture of the 1940s, 1950s, 1960s, 1970s. He hunts for, rediscovers all the forgotten designers of those years. He was the one who since 1985 has organized the first exhibitions in France of Ron Arad, Ettore Sottsass or Shiro Kuramata, that he then confronted with the works by older major designers of the 1940s and 1950s as André Arbus, Jacques Adnet, Paul Evans, Gabriella Crespi, Joe Colombo and many others. It is thanks to gallery owners like him that we now enjoy the return of Art Deco in the forefront. Joined by his son Victor in 2005, Yves Gastou continues to exhibit the spatial and playful furniture of the 60s and 70s, cherishing the dream of a free and relaxed way of life, of an art democratized thanks to the introduction of new materials, such as resin, brass, stainless steel, and stone geodes, while integrating a sleek contemporary design. Victor has continued the adventure alone since Yves’ disappearance in 2020.

Galerie GASTOU

12 rue Bonaparte 75006 Paris

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