Léonce Rosenberg was a Parisian artwork seller and gallery proprietor at the start of the twentieth century, and was shut with all the most important artists of the time. For the housewarming of his luxurious new house in 1929, the place was full of work particularly conceived for the house, with one artist per room.
The Picasso Museum pays hommage to this distinctive man by bringing collectively most of the authentic works, in a brand new exhibition entitled Léonce Rosenberg’s Residence. De Chirico, Ernst, Léger, Picabia…
It needs to be mentioned that Léonce Rosenberg’s house was your common lodging. Subsequent to the Trocadéro (near the Eiffel Tower) at 75 rue de Longchamp within the sixteenth arrondissement, it was made up of 11 rooms unfold over a really beneficiant 360m², and conceived for entertaining, with the household rooms separate from the fumoir, essential salon and grand entrance corridor.
The embellishment of every room was assigned to a special artist, with each classic and modern fixtures and fittings to accompany the work.
For instance, De Chirico created a collection of 11 work across the theme of gladiators for the doorway corridor, Fernand Léger produced a variety of work of the 4 seasons for a vestibule, Francis Picabia‘s Transparences might be discovered within the bed room of Rosenberg’s spouse, and so forth. and so forth.
The exhibition on the Picasso Museum presents and explains a collection of the works that adorned Rosenberg’s house, a novel assortment of pictural works that many could know nothing about.
To additional discover the topic of the exhibition there are guided visits obtainable, and a visite-workshop for households. The official catalogue (208 pages, 150 illustrations, 39,90€) might be printed on 14th February, obtainable out of your native Amazon right here.
The exhibition Léonce Rosenberg’s Residence. De Chirico, Ernst, Léger, Picabia… is on the Picasso Museum (right here) from thirtieth January – nineteenth Might 2024
Open weekdays from 10.30am-6pm, and weekends (and faculty holidays) from 9;30am-6pm
Closed Mondays
Admission: 14€ / 11€
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To take a look at the total English press pack for the exhibition, click on the ‘fullscreen’ button to the underside proper of the picture under.
