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Henri Rivière

HENRI RIVIÈRE

The Man Behind The Camera Musée d'Orsay 29 October 2024–2 March 2025 Paris
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Henri Rivière was a graphic artist, illustrator, painter, engraver, and poet who created the shadow theater at the Chat noir cabaret in 1886, as well as being a collector of Far-Eastern art and a photographer.

Drawing on his experience with projection and enchanted by Japanese art, he created images where flat sheets of color, jagged silhouettes, chiaroscuro, and Japanese-inspired compositions sit side by side. His visual experiments center around images of his partner, captured in moments of intimacy, the Breton countryside, and Parisian market scenes, as well as the construction site for the Eiffel tower.

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The history of the museum, of its building is quite unusual. In the centre of Paris on the banks of the Seine, opposite the Tuileries Gardens, the museum was installed in the former Orsay railway station, built for the Universal Exhibition of 1900. So the building itself could be seen as the first “work of art” in the Musee d’Orsay, which displays collections of art from the period 1848 to 1914.

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Esplanade Valéry Giscard d'Estaing
Paris
France
Opening Hours
Tuesday – Sunday
9.30am – 6pm
Closed Monday
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Paris Esplanade Valéry Giscard d'Estaing
Musee dOrsay contemporary art institution in Paris France
Musée d'Orsay
Esplanade Valéry Giscard d'Estaing, Paris, France
http://www.musee-orsay.fr/

Opening hours
Tuesday – Sunday
9.30am – 6pm
Closed Monday
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