ART EXHIBITION IN PARIS: “Collections Privées, un voyage...

Les Impressionnistes en privé. Cent chefs-d'oeuvre de collections particulières MARIANNE MATHIEUCLAIRE DURAND-RUEL SNOLLAERTS RICHARD R. BRETTELL, 2014


Les Impressionnistes en privé. Cent chefs-d'oeuvre de collections particulières MARIANNE MATHIEUCLAIRE DURAND-RUEL SNOLLAERTS RICHARD R. BRETTELL, 2014

ART EXHIBITION IN PARIS: “Collections Privées, un voyage des Impressionistes aux Fauves”

When? From September 13, 2018 to February 10, 2019

Where? At Musée Marmottan Monet, in Paris

The exhibition “Collections Privées, un voyage des Impressionistes aux Fauves” will showcase about sixty works of art. All artwork pieces are lent exclusively by private collections from around the world, ranging from historic ensembles to new-minted ones. Many of these paintings, sculpture, and drawings have rarely or have never been seen in Paris yet. The artists and creators of these masterpieces include Monet, Degas, Caillebotte, Renoir, Rodin, Camille Claudel, Seurat, Signac, Émile Bernard, Gauguin, Van Gogh, Redon, Vuillard, Bonnard, Derain, Vlaminck, and Matisse. Their work reflects the vitality of this artistic period that went from “Impressionism” to “Fauvism”. Conceived in homage to the collectors whose generosity made it possible, this art exhibition will take visitors on a new journey through the arts from the late 19th to the early 20th century. Read more…

History of the “Musée Marmottan Monet”

Former hunting lodge of Christophe Edmond Kellerman, Duke of Valmy, the Marmottan Monet Museum was bought in 1882 by Jules Marmottan. His son Paul settled in it, and had another hunting lodge built to house his private collection of art pieces and First Empire paintings.

Upon his death he bequeathed all his collections, his town house – which will become the Marmottan Monet Museum in 1934 – and the Boulogne Library’s historical rich historical archives to the French Academy of Fine Arts.

In 1957, the Marmottan Monet Museum received the private collection of Madame Victorine Donop de Monchy as a donation inherited from her father, Doctor Georges de Bellio, one of the first lovers’ of impressionism whose patients included Manet, Monet, Pissaro, Sisley, and Renoir.

In 1966, Michel Monet, the painter’s second son, bequeathed his property in Giverny to the French Academy of Fine Arts and his collection of paintings, inherited from his father, to the Marmottan Monet Museum. This donation endowed the Museum with the largest Claude Monet collection in the world. On this occasion, the academician architect and museum curator, Jacques Carlu, built a room inspired from the Grandes Décorations in the Tuilerie’s Orangerie to house the collection.

The works acquired by Henri Duhem and his wife Mary Sergeant splendidly completed this fund in 1987 through the generosity of their daughter Nelly Duhem. A painter and post-impressionists himself, Henri Duhem also was a passionate art collector and gathered the works of his contemporaries.

The Denis and Annie Rouart Foundation was created in 1996 within the Marmottan Monet Museum, in compliance with the benefactress’ wishes. The Museum was hence enriched with prestigious works by Berthe Morisot, Edouard Manet, Edgar Degas, and Henri Rouart.

In 1980, Daniel Wildstein gave the Museum the exceptional illumination collection put together by his father. Throughout the years, other major donations have come to enrich the Marmottan Monet Museum collections: Emile Bastien Lepage, Vincens Bourguereau, Henri Le Riche, Jean Paul Léon, André Billecocq, Gaston Schulmann, Florence Gould Foundation, Cila Dreyfus, and Thérèse Rouart.. Read more

via Tumblr http://bit.ly/2OnqnOq