Art Of The Day Weekly
#328 - from 9 January 2014 to 15 January 2014
Alfred Sisley, Goose Girls along the Loing river, pastel on blue paper, 30 x 40,8 cm. Private collection (exhibition at musée Marmottan Monet, Paris).
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In 2014 we will commemorate the birthdays or deaths of Saint Louis, Calvin, Pigalle, Mme. de Pompadour, the marquis de Sade, Camille Claudel… But of course the main events will be all those organized around the tragedy of 1914. Most of the exhibits linked to the commemoration are programed for the second semester, since WW I started during the summer. The first part of the year will also have its share of ceremonies and festivities, as we can see in the fifteen listed here under, in chronological order and which all begin before the spring …
15 EXHIBITIONS IN FRANCE
Cayrac, Érection of the Obelisk of Luxor, 25 October 1836, watercolor, 1837.
The trip of the obelisk
PARIS – One of the great moments during the reign of Louis-Philippe was surely the
arrival in Paris of the great obelisk of Luxor, a gift from the viceroy of Egypt. It weighs
over 200 tons and today cannot be dissociated from the place de la Concorde. What
adventures, what events must have marked its voyage, and its installation? The musée de la Marine tells the story of an unusual, seven-year long move (1829-1836).
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From 12 February to 6 July 2014.
Henri Cartier-Bresson
PARIS – He is the apostle of the ‘decisive moment’, the figure head of humanist
photography. The Centre Pompidou presents all of Cartier-Bresson (1908-2004) by
looking at him through the lens of his endless trips throughout the world: Italy, Spain, India, Mexico, USSR…
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From 12 February to 9 June 2014.
Gustave Caillebotte, A refuge, Boulevard Haussmann, circa 1880. Oil on canvas, 81x101 cm.
Impressionists , privately
PARIS – Their paintings are the center of modern art museums throughout the world. Who has not seen at least once Monet’s Nymphéas, a voluptuous nude of Renoir’s, a rain-drenched horizon of Pissarro’s? Hence our curiosity for this unexpected presentation of Impressionist paintings at the musée Marmottan Monet: from Sisley’s Goose girl to Degas’ portrait of his father, and not least a rare flower composition by Cézanne, which all come from private collections and therefore are not accessible to art amateurs.
• From 13 February to 6 July 2014.
Meret Oppenheim
VILLENEUVE-D’ASCQ – At age 23, she presented her hairy cup (Le Déjeuner en fourrure /Fur lunch) at the International Surrealist exhibition in 1936 at the
galerie Ratton. Meret Oppenheim (1913-1985), the muse of Man Ray, of Max Ernst
and of Giacometti was immediately in the limelight. In 1959 she presented an unusual banquet at the exhibition ÉROS at the galerie Cordier: a naked woman. The LAM invites us to rediscover the rich itinerary that lies behind these two emblematic works.
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From 14 February to 1 June 2014
Joseph Vitta, the passion of collecting
ÉVIAN – Joseph Vitta (1860-1942) is known for his villa La Sapinière, designed in Évian by architect Jean-Camille Formigé. This wealthy baron, a native from Piemonte was one of the great art patrons of the XIXth century and in particular for Rodin and Chéret. The famous Mort de Sardanapale by Delacroix hung in his living room before entering the Louvre museum and he was one of the promoters of the Delacroix museum. The Palais Lumière retraces the itinerary of this donator who has been too easily forgotten.
• From 15 February to 1 June 2014.
André Fougeron
ROUBAIX –André Fougeron (1913-1998) was politically committed and a fervent realist and figurative painter. Through this exhibition the La Piscine museum pulls him out of the oblivion he had slipped into. He was rewarded the national paint prize in 1946, and left behind some iconic works such as Les Parisiennes au marché (1948) or La Civilisation atlantique (1953).
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From 15 February to 18 May 2014
Gustave Doré, Que son sort malheureux – paraît triste et fâcheux, 1856, engraved xylography by Jean Best (1808-1879) © BNF
Gustave Doré, the imagination has the power
PARIS – In our minds he is associated with the works of Rabelais or of the Bible which he beautifully illustrated. But Gustave Doré (1832-1883) is that and a lot more – and in particular, a brilliant water color artist, a painter haunted by the darkness of History. The exhibition at the musée d’Orsay intends to pull him out of that purgatory of being a simple illustrator of stories. As we can see at the Petit Palais, with his Vallée de larmes /Valley of Tears, found in 1947 in a warehouse in Manhattan, he also had a weakness for the colossal genre: the painting is 6 meters long…
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From 18 February to 11 May 2014.
Paparazzi
METZ - Tazio Secchiaroli was one of the most famous of a species that experienced a golden age on Via Veneto in Rome in the 60s, that of the paparazzi, to the point of inspiring Fellini in La Dolce Vita. But photographers in search of celebrities have existed since the black chamber was invented … What subjects have attracted them and how have they operated for the last century? The Centre Pompidou Metz tries to answer those questions through some clichés.
• From 26 February to 9 June 2014
Nancy Cunard
PARIS – She was an emblematic character of the first half of the XXth century: an heiress who turned her back to her fortune to embrace the destiny of the avant-gardes, who published Auden’s poems, promoted Buñuel, was an advocate for the Spanish Republic and published a colossal anthology of the art and literature of the black people. A lover of Aragon and Neruda, Nancy Cunard (1896-1965) comes back to life at the musée du quai Branly.
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From 4 March to 18 May 2014.
Bill Viola
PARIS - Bill Viola (born in 1951) was a master in video art and contributed to giving this new media the place it deserved with, in particular, works such as The Greeting or Observance. He is given a unique space, that of the Grand Palais, to present a selection of installations done over nearly the last 40 years.
• From 5 March to 21 July 2014.
Carl Larsson, The Kitchen © Nationalmuseum Stockholm
Carl Larsson, Swedish images
PARIS – Reproductions of his works hang in all Swedish homes, but Carl Larsson (1853-1919) never succeeded in crossing the Scandinavian borders. This time, a great number of his paintings, mostly descriptions of daily life and of the rustic interiors of the Far North, are expected at the Petit Palais.
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From 7 March to 7 June 2014.
Volubilis, Juba II © Direction du patrimoine culturel, Ministry of culture of the Kingdom of Morocco.
Volubilis
MARSEILLE – The exhibition includes 18 Hellenistic bronze figures, considered national treasures in Morocco, of which most were found during the diggings carried out in Volubilis, the capital of Juba II, king of Mauritania for nearly half a century at the time of Jesus Christ. The MUCEM, the city’s new flagship, affirms its Mediterranean commitment with this new event. The moment is also a delicate transition towards a role Marseille must embrace: as it is no longer the European capital it must confirm the enthusiasm and the attendance reached during 2013.
• From 12 March to 25 August 2014.
Joséphine
PARIS – Was she a tender spouse or a libidinous intriguer? No matter. The fact is
Joséphine de Beauharnais has become an icon in the history of France. She was a
magnificent Empress, a lover of roses and of light chiffon dresses. But she was also a learned lover of the arts and the model for many great painters, from Gros to baron
Gérard. The musée du Luxembourg presents the beautiful Creole through her artistic tastes.
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From 12 March to 29 June 2014.
Nicolas Lancret (1690-1743), Bathers and spectators in a landscape. Ante 1725, oil on canvas, 97 x 145 cm - Paris, Musée du Louvre © RMN-Grand Palais / Jean-Gilles Berizzi
Fêtes galantes, from Watteau to Fragonard
PARIS – What is L’Embarquement à Cythère by Watteau? It represents lightness, the art of living in the XVIIIth century, prior to the tremors of the Revolution. Many other painters have interpreted those carefree and pleasure-filled times, in false rustic-looking settings peopled with a number of beautiful shepherdesses and lute players. From Lancret to Pater and Fragonard, they are all grouped together at the musée Jacquemart-André.
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From 14 March to 21 July 2014.
Robert Mapplethorpe, Selfportrait © Robert Mapplethorpe foundation
Robert Mapplethorpe
Mapplethorpe (1946-1989) died very young, a victim of AIDS. But he had the time to
contribute important work to the photographic art of the end of the XXth century, in
which nudes, portraits and still lives occupy a central place. The Grand Palais brings together 200 of his most famous prints.
• From 26 March to 13 July 2014.
