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Manet / Degas
Past: March 28 → July 23, 2023
Édouard Manet (1832-1883) and Edgar Degas (1834-1917) both played a pivotal role in the new painting of the 1860s-80s. This exhibition, which brings together the two painters in the light of their contrasts, forces us to take a new look at their real bond. It shows the heterogeneous and conflicting nature of pictorial…

Painting
Musée d’Orsay
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Degas à l’Opéra
Past: September 24, 2019 → January 19, 2020
Throughout his entire career, from his debut in the 1860s up to his final works after 1900, the Opera formed the focal point of Degas’ output. It was his “own room”. He explored the theatre’s various spaces — auditorium and stage, boxes, foyers, and dance studios — and followed those who frequented them.

Painting
Musée d’Orsay
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La Collection Courtauld — Le parti de l’impressionnisme
Past: February 20 → June 17, 2019
The exhibition presents the collection of the British entrepreneur and art patron Samuel Courtauld, which hasn’t been showed in Paris for the past 60 years.

Painting
Louis Vuitton
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L’art du pastel de Degas à Redon — La collection du Petit Palais
Past: September 15, 2017 → April 8, 2018
Out of its collection of more than 200 pastels, the Petit Palais is presenting a selection of close to 150 of them for the first time, offering an exhaustive overview of the main artistic currents of the second half of the 19th-century, from Impressionism to Symbolism.

Drawing, print
Petit Palais
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Degas Danse Dessin — Hommage à Degas avec Paul Valéry
Past: November 28, 2017 → February 25, 2018
On the centenary of his death, the Musée d’Orsay pays tribute to Edgar Degas with an exhibition based around the little known work by the writer, poet and thinker, Paul Valéry.

Dance, drawing, painting...
Musée d’Orsay
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Icônes de l’art moderne — La collection Chtchoukine
Past: October 22, 2016 → March 5, 2017
As part of the official programme of the France-Russia year of cultural tourism 2016-17, the exhibition pays tribute to one of the greatest art patrons of the early 20th century, Sergei Shchukin, the visionary Russian collector of French modern art.

Painting, performance, video
Louis Vuitton
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Splendeurs et misères — Images de la prostitution en France (1850-1910)
Past: September 22, 2015 → January 20, 2016
The first major show on the subject of prostitution, this exhibition attempts to retrace the way French and foreign artists, fascinated by the people and places involved in prostitution, have constantly sought to find new pictorial means for depicting the related realities and fantasies.

Painting
Musée d’Orsay
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Paris 1900 — La ville spectacle
Past: April 2 → August 17, 2014
The exhibition “Paris 1900, la Ville spectacle” is an invitation to the public to relive the splendour of the French capital. Over 600 works will plunge visitors to the Petit Palais into the atmosphere of Belle Époque Paris. There are paintings, objets d’art, costumes, posters, photographs, films, furniture, jewellery and sculptures.

Jewellery, painting, sculpture
Petit Palais
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Les impressionnistes en privé — 100 chefs-d’œuvre de collections particulières
Past: February 13 → July 6, 2014
Cette exposition offre l’opportunité unique au public de découvrir des tableaux pour la plupart jamais vus. Une centaine de chefs-d’œuvre impressionnistes constitue un ensemble d’exception. « Les Impressionnistes en privé » témoigne de la présence et de l’engouement toujours vifs des maîtres impressionnistes au sein des collections privées.

Painting
Musée Marmottan Monet
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Degas et le nu
Past: March 13 → July 1, 2012
Throughout his career, Degas constantly represented the nude, readily repeating poses he had used several decades previously. Therefore, more than any other genre, the nude demonstrates his stylistic evolution, from his early classical training based on the copy of ancient masters to his late research into movement the radical approach to forms.

Painting
Musée d’Orsay
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Matisse, Cézanne, Picasso … L’aventure des Stein
Past: October 5, 2011 → January 16, 2012
The Steins, an American family, moved to Paris in the early 20th century. They were the first people to buy Matisses and Picassos and they also received the entire avant-garde into their homes and thus built up one of the most astonishing collections of modern art.

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