From 01 March to 29 May 2023
At the Musée de l’Orangerie
- Location : at the Musée de l’Orangerie (1st)
- Date : March 01 to May 29, 2023
- Opening hours : from 9 am to 6 pm
- When : every day of the week except Tuesday
- Opening hours : from 9am to 6pm, until 9pm on Friday
- Late opening : Friday until 9 p.m.
- Age: from 7 years old
- Free : for children under 18 years old; -26 EEU
A beautiful exhibition that brings back all the intensity of Matisse’s works at a time of artistic proliferation.
Matisse, the turning point of the 1930s
It was in the 1930s, after a long trip to Tahiti, that a turning point took place in the art of the painter Henri Matisse (1869-1954): paper cut-outs, gouache, line drawing, but also dance and musicality appeared in the artist’s work.
This exhibition is an opportunity to look back at the context of creation and on Les Cahiers d’Art, the first avant-garde magazine created in 1926 by the critic and patron of the arts Christian Zervos. Distributed throughout the world to galleries and amateurs, Les Cahiers d’Art has largely contributed to making known artists such as Georges Braque, Juan Miró, Fernand Léger, Wassily Kandinsky, Piet Mondrian, Le Corbusier, etc.
And it is precisely in this context that we discover the place of Matisse’s work, which was published several times in this magazine during the 1930s.
The Musée de l’Orangerie, the Museum of the Impressionists and Monet’s Water Lilies
- The Musée de l’Orangerie was once an orangery, a place where oranges were deposited to preserve them properly
- It is now a museum, devoted mainly to French painting between 1860 and 1930
- In our opinion, it is one of the most beautiful painting museums in Paris
- A fascinating little museum located in the Tuileries Gardens, on the esplanade above the Concorde
- We love this relatively unknown museum which has Monet’s spectacular Water Lilies and anexceptional collection of Impressionist and Post-Impressionist works (French painting from the 1860s to the 1930s)
- In addition to the permanent collections, the Musée de l’Orangerie presents exhibitions that are often fascinating
The Musée de l’Orangerie and its exhibitions that enchanted us
- Permanent collections: The Museum of the Impressionists and Monet’s Water Lilies
- 2022 : “David Hockney, A Year in Normandy”
- 2020: “Giorgio de Chirico: Metaphysical Painting”
