The Marmottan / Monet Museum has a brand new exhibition, co-curated by Laura Bossi, a neurologist and science historian – The Empire of Sleep – all about work of individuals snoozing, napping or getting some shuteye, an unique topic that features some objectively pretty artworks.
All of us spend round a 3rd of our life sleeping (and probably dreaming), however surprisingly the Marmottan Museum is the primary in France to check out this common pastime as seen in artworks.
It’s such an enormous topic, touched upon by a lot of well-known artists, and the exhibition thus contains work from many large names – Monet after all, but additionally Goya, Courbet, Vallotton, Cocteau, Blake, Ingres, Rembrandt, Rodin, Picasso, Munch… – and contains 130 items, together with work, drawings, sculptures and objets.
The presentation is in seven primary sections (the press launch says eight, however lists solely seven):
— Candy sleep, pure hapiness,
— Figures of sleep within the Bible,
— Hypnos and Thanatos: sleep and loss of life are brothers,
— Erotic sleep: love revealed and sleeping beauties,
— The doorways to goals,
— Troubled sleep: when purpose is absent, and
— To mattress!
The exhibition has been capable of secures loans from main establishments together with the Musée d’Orsay, the Louvre, the Nationwide Museum of Trendy Artwork, the Petit Palais, the musée des Beaux-arts de Montréal, the Pargaue Nationwide Gallery, Palazzo Pitti-Galleria d’Arte Moderna in Florence, the Museo Reina Sofía in Madrid and extra, and the presentation was designed by Martin Michel.
In case you’d like to have a look at these pretty pictures within the consolation of your individual dwelling, and be taught extra concerning the topic, the French exhibition catalogue (248 pages, round 35€) has simply been printed and might be discovered right here at your native Amazon.
The exhibition The Empire of Sleep is on the Marmottan Museum (right here) till 1st March 2026
Open every single day besides Mondays from 10am-6pm (9pm Thursdays)
Admission: 14€ / 9€ / free for under-7s
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