2023-08-31 04:05:01
The exhibition season promises to be rich in Paris, with big names in painting, photography and engraving. Our selection.
Nicolas de Staël at the Museum of Modern Art, Vincent Van Gogh at the Orsay Museum, Amedeo Modigliani at the Orangerie, Mark Rothko at the Vuitton Foundation, Berthe Morisot at the Marmottan Museum, it’s the celebration of great painting in Paris this fall 2023. There is also a lot of photography with two major cross-sectional exhibitions at the BnF, Paz Errázuriz at the Maison de l’Amérique Latine and Julia Margaret Cameron at the Jeu de Paume, prints at the Petit Palais, and art contemporary with Sophie Calle at the Picasso Museum and Peter Doig at the Orsay Museum.
Nicolas de Staël retrospective at the Museum of Modern Art in Paris
Nicolas de Staël, “Marine at night”, 1954, Private collection (© ADAGP, Paris, 2023 © Photo Thomas Hennocque)
This is the first major retrospective of Nicolas de Staël in Paris for 20 years. Through 200 paintings, drawings, engravings and notebooks by the legendary artist, from the 1940s to his suicide at the age of 41 in 1955, the Museum of modern art intends to offer a new look at his work of color and light. Next to icons like The Parc des Princes, we will see works rarely shown, including fifty exhibited for the first time in a French museum. From September 15, 2023 to January 21, 2024.
“Corps à corps”, the human figure in photography at the Center Pompidou
Saul Leiter, “Kathy”, verse 1950, Collection Marin Karmitz (© Saul Leiter Foundation, Collection Marin Karmitz, Reproduction photographique : Florian Kleinefenn)
The Centre Pompidou offers a major exhibition on human representation from its own collection of photographs, one of the largest in the world, and that of the French collector Marin Karmitz. More than 500 photos and documents taken by 120 photographers from all eras that highlight correspondences between artists working at the same time or at distant periods in time. From Berenice Abbott to Bernard Plossu, from Paul Strand to Vivian Maier, from Dora Maar to Sergio Larrain… From September 6, 2023 to March 25, 2024.
Van Gogh, the last months, at the Musée d’Orsay
Vincent Van Gogh, “Farmhouses with Figures, Auvers-sur-Oise”, May-June 1890, Amsterdam, Van Gogh Museum (Photo: © Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam (Vincent van Gogh Foundation))
Arriving in Auvers-sur-Oise on May 20, 1890, Vincent Van Gogh died there on July 29 after a suicide attempt. THE Musée d’Orsay examines this brief but intense period when the painter’s work experienced an artistic renewal and a style of its own, and where he created iconic works such as The Church of Auvers-sur-Oise where the Wheat field with crows. The exhibition, organized with the Van Gogh museum in Amsterdam, presents some forty of the 73 paintings and twenty of the 33 drawings produced over the past two months. From October 3, 2023 to February 4, 2024.
Julia Margaret Cameron, pioneer of photography, at the Jeu de Paume
Julia Margaret Cameron, “The Mountain Nymph Sweet Liberty”, 1866, Carbon print (© The Royal Photographic Society Collection at the V&A, acquired with the generous assistance of the National Lottery Heritage Fund and Art Fund.)
Palm Tennis presents the first major retrospective in Paris of the Briton Julia Margaret Cameron (1815-1879), a pioneer of photography and in particular of portraiture. She took up photography with passion at the age of 48, when her daughter gave her a camera. In ten years, between 1864 and 1875, she produced more than a thousand images, one of the great works of photography, focused on the search for beauty and incorporating blur, imperfection and accident in an innovative way. From October 10, 2023 to January 28, 2024.
Mark Rothko at the Louis Vuitton Foundation
Mark Rothko, “Light Cloud, Dark Cloud”, 1957, Collection of the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth (© 1998 Kate Rothko Prizel & Christopher Rothko – Adagp, Paris, 2023)
We had not had the opportunity to see a major exhibition of Mark Rothko in Paris since the last century. A good reason to go see the retrospective of the American painter at the Louis Vuitton Foundation, at the heart of which we can be moved by the iconic works of his so-called “classical” period, initiated in the late 1940s. After a figurative period represented at the start of the exhibition, Rothko painted rectangular color forms , bright or darker, generally superimposed vertically by two or three, in infinite variations of tones. Works that cannot leave anyone indifferent. From October 18, 2023 to April 2, 2024.
Modigliani and his art dealer Paul Guillaume at the Musée de l’Orangerie
Amedeo Modigliani (1884-1920,) Nu couché, 1917, Italy, Turin, Pinacoteca Agnelli (© Pinacoteca Agnelli, Turin)
In 1914 Amedeo Modigliani, who arrived in Paris in 1906, met Paul Guillaume, then 23 years old, who became his dealer. The exhibition of Orangerie Museum explores the way in which the links between the two men can shed light on the career of the artist who, until his death in 1920, will devote himself entirely to painting, essentially to the human figure. More than a hundred of his canvases, fifty drawings and a dozen sculptures would have passed through the hands of the dealer. The museum exhibits about fifty of them and studies the role of Paul Guillaume in the dissemination of Modigliani’s work. From September 20, 2023 to January 15, 2024.
Chilean photographer Paz Errázuriz at the House of Latin America
Paz Errázuriz “Evelyn – The Palm Tree, James” “Adam’s Apple” series, 1982-1987. Cibachrone issue of 2015, (Private collection, Paris.)
This is the first personal exhibition in Paris of this great lady of Chilean photography, a committed artist who since the 1970s has been interested in the invisible communities of society, circus people, boxers, transvestites, the elderly, mentally ill, prostitutes with whom she forges strong relationships. A way to participate in the resistance under the Pinochet dictatorship. There Latin American House presents 120 prints from 15 series, three of which are unpublished. From September 8 to December 20, 2023.
The treasure of Notre-Dame at the Louvre
Breviary of Châteauroux for the use of Paris by Louis de Guyenne, Municipal Library of Châteauroux (© Médiathèque Équinoxe, City of Châteauroux, CNRS – IRHT-jpg)
As restoration work on the cathedral enters its final phase, the Louvre Museum devotes an exhibition to the treasure of Notre-Dame de Paris. More than 120 works, objects, vestments, relics and reliquaries, books and precious objects, a summary of the history of this treasure from the Middle Ages to the 19th century. From October 18, 2023 to January 29, 2024.
Berthe Morisot and 18th century art at the Marmottan museum
Berthe Morisot, “Young Woman in Gray Lying Down”, 1879, private collection (© Rights reserved)
By comparing the works of Berthe Morisot with those of Antoine Watteau, François Boucher, Jean-Honoré Fragonard or Jean-Baptiste Perronneau, the Marmottan Monet Museum proposes a new exhibition on the links which unite the impressionist painter to the art of the 18th century. Because if the artist has always been a painter of modern life, her work has often been compared to that of French artists of the Age of Enlightenment. From October 18, 2023 to March 3, 2024.
Two photography exhibitions at the BnF, on black and white and on photographic material
Mary Ellen Mark, “Immigrants”, Istanbul, Turkey, circa 1977, BnF, Prints and photography (© Mary Ellen Mark/ The Mary Ellen Mark Foundation)
Because black and white photography resists and has ended up embodying the very essence of photography, to show its universal and timeless dimension, National Library of France exhibits 300 black and white images from its collections. Big names in French and international photography, from Nadar to Valérie Belin, from Ansel Adams to Daido Moriyama, from the origins to the present day (from October 17, 2023 to January 21, 2024). In another exhibition, the BnF is interested in photographic material and explores the possible states of image-material in photography, analog and digital, through the works of 200 photographers (from October 10, 2023 to February 4, 2024).
The Congolese painter Chéri Samba at the Maillol museum
Chéri Samba, “Kinshasa city of atmosphere”, 1994, Acrylic on canvas (Photo: Maurice Aeschimann / Courtesy The Pigozzi African Art Collection © Chéri Samba)
The Maillol museum offers a retrospective of 40 years of creation by the Congolese Chéri Samba, the most famous African painter of his generation, ambassador of Kinshasa’s “popular painting”, a figurative painting in bright colors, full of critical humor, where the self-portrait, geopolitics, the environment and women have a large place. About fifty paintings from Jean Pigozzi’s collection, the most important of contemporary African art. From October 17, 2023 to April 7, 2024.
Peter Doig at the Musée d’Orsay
Peter Doig (1959), “Two Trees”, 2017, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, gift of George Economou, in celebration of the museum’s 150th anniversary, 2018 (© Peter Doig. All Rights Reserved, DACS/ ADAGP, Paris , 2023)
As part of his contemporary counterpoints, the Musée d’Orsay invites the Briton Peter Doig who exhibits some of his major paintings there and dialogues with a selection of works from Orsay (Gauguin, Rousseau, Vuillard, Manet, Seurat…) that inspired him. Considered one of the greatest living painters, Doig creates fascinating landscapes crossed by human figures, often solitary or marked by human presence. From October 17, 2023 to January 21, 2024.
Sophie Calle takes over the Picasso Museum
Sophie Calle, “Pablo Picasso, La Chèvre”, 1950 2023, Bronze, tyvek paper, Musée national Picasso-Paris (Photography © Maxime Champion © Sophie Calle/ ADAGP, Paris 2023; that of Serena Carrone © Serena Carrone.)
Sophie Calle celebrates the 50th anniversary of Pablo Picasso’s death in her own way, on the four floors of the Hôtel Salé. She takes an offbeat and curious look at a selection of emblematic works by the Spanish master on the ground floor, and unfolds a personal story on all floors of the National Picasso Museum, exploring themes that are dear to him, such as memory, absence and things that remain. From October 3, 2023 to January 7, 2024.
The Petit Palais exhibits its treasures in black and white
Antonio Pollaiuolo, “The Gladiators. Combat of naked men”, around 1460-1475, chisel, Petit Palais, Museum of Fine Arts of the City of Paris (© Paris Museums / Petit Palais)
The Small palace exhibits 200 masterpieces from its very rich collection of prints, offering a panorama from the 15th to the 20th century, from Dürer or Rembrandt to Jacques Callot, Goya or Toulouse-Lautrec, Auguste Renoir and Odilon Redon. Mediation devices make it possible to become familiar with the different techniques, wood engraving, etching, chisel or lithography. From September 12 to January 14, 2024.
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