Musée de l'Orangerie
Paris Learn more about what's on at Musée de l'Orangerie and the artists shaping its programme.The new presentation of the Musée de l’Orangerie collection, in renovated spaces, creates a closer connection between the two parts of the collection – Water Lilies / École de Paris [School of Paris] in the early 20th century – with an elegant spatial and visual coherence within the building and a fluid, educational and stimulating visitor circuit. The visit begins with a striking entrance to the collection with large polyptychs by Joan Mitchell (a loan from the Musée national d’Art moderne) on the one hand, and large-scale works by the modern ‘primitives’ - Picasso, Douanier Rousseau, Derain, Modigliani, Matisse, etc., on the other – based on the vision of the poet Guillaume Apollinaire. The monographic galleries offer the public a new, more up-close and comfortable perspective of the works.
The exceptional loan of a set of African and Oceanian sculptures, previously in the Paul Guillaume collection, by the Musée du Quai Branly – Jacques Chirac, as well as several drawings and archives, enrich the tour. The two new galleries – one dedicated to close-ups of the collection (three per year), and the other to contemporary counterpoints to the Water Lilies – contribute to the dynamism and constant renewal of this prestigious collection.
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