It’s been almost 47 years since the last major retrospective devoted to Paul Klee was held in France. Today, until August 1st, 2016, the Centre Pompidou offers visitors a chance to explore Klee’s most famous paintings by staging an exhibition that brings together about 250 of his artworks.
Organized by the Louvre museum, in cooperation with Noirmontartproduction, this chef-d’oeuvre is, in fact, the first contemporary artwork to be displayed in public, on the top of the central fountain of the Cour Carrée of the Louvre.
Located at the Hôtel Biron, in the 7th arrondissement of the city of Paris, from April 12th to July 17th,…
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The exhibition Charles Gleyre (1806-1874). The Reformed Romantic at Musée d’Orsay sheds light on the significant role played by Gleyre as well as his studio in producing an interesting number of successful artists such as the Impressionist artist Claude Monet (1840 – 1926), the Orientalist painter and sculptor Jean-Léon Gérôme (1824 – 1904), and the French Impressionist painter Jean Frédéric Bazille (1841 – 1870). It puts on display a set of stunning works on loan from the Cantonal Museum of Fine Arts in Lausanne, Switzerland.
Dedicated to the popular French archaeologist and museum director of the Museum of French Monuments (Musée des monuments français), Alexandre Lenoir (1761 – 1839), the exhibition “A Revolutionary Museum: Alexandre Lenoir’s Museum of French Monuments” aims at highlighting the accomplishment and devotion of Lenoir to protecting the heritage of France, especially during the French Revolution (1789 – 1799).
