Recognized for its unbelievable everlasting assortment of Monet work, the Marmottan Museum additionally organises some very fascinating non permanent exhibitions.
For his or her newest, with the Olympics being held in Paris, the on-brand theme is En jeu! Artists and Sport (1870-1930) 60 years of sport in artwork from impressionism to cubism, with a formidable number of over 100 works by Toulouse-Lautrec, Bourdelle, Degas, Monet, Courbet, Caillebotte, Renoir, Rodin, Sisley and extra.
Simply months earlier than the opening of the Olympic and Paralympic Video games in Paris, sport has infused all the pieces within the metropolis, proper right down to its museums!
And to see how sport, sportswomen and sportsmen advanced in tandem with artwork, what higher than this exhibition of work (and extra) that appears at a particular interval when sport was changing into extra organised and above all extra accessible to the lots in Europe, due to a discount within the variety of hours labored.
It was additionally a interval when girls had been gaining energy and entry to sports activities that had previously been forbidden for them.
A part of the official tradition provide for the Olympics (l’Olympiade Culturelle Paris 2024) created by the Worldwide Olympic Committee, the exhibition consists of many essential loans from the Peggy Guggenheim Assortment in Venice, Yale College Artwork Gallery, the Nationwide Gallery of Artwork of Washington et Philadelphia Museum of Artwork, and French museums together with the Fabre Museum in Montpellier, the Pompidou Centre, Musée d’Orsay, Nationwide Sports activities Museum in Good and quite a few different private and non-private collections in Europe, the USA and Japan.
In all, over 160 works are on view – work, drawings, posters, photographs, sculptures…
To dive deeper into the exhibition’s theme, guided visits are on provide, and you’ll hire the exhibition audioguide in English for 4€.
A listing (288 pages) can also be out there for round 35€ right here out of your native Amazon.
The exhibition En jeu! Artists and Sport (1870-1930) is on the Marmottan Museum (right here) till 1st September 2024
Open day by day besides Mondays from 10am-6pm (9pm Thursdays)
Admission: 14€ / 9€ / free for under-7 12 months olds
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To take a look at the English press launch for the exhibition, merely click on the ‘fullscreen’ button on the backside proper of the picture beneath.
