Impressionsit's pinnacle, the collection of Dr. Georges de Bellio at the Musée Marmottan in Paris

Born in Bucarest in 1828, Dr. de Bellio left Roumania for France in 1850, and bought his first Monet painting in 1874.


Two years later he was to meet Monet, and they became good friends. More paintings were commissioned over the years, and Dr. de Bellio expanded his collection to include to include works by Manet, Renoir and others, making himself a name as one of the first collectors of Impressionism. The collection grew so large in fact, that he was obliged to rent out a shop in order to put the works on show for his friends from the Café Riche!

Some of these paintings can now been seen at the Musée Marmottan, one of Paris' forgotten museums, not near the centre of town and no doubt overshadowed by Giverny, l'Orangerie and the Musée d'Orsay. However, it is well worth visiting if you like Impressionist paintings.

The collection of Dr. Georges de Bellio will be in display until 3rd February 2008.

Impressionist's pinnacle, the collection of Dr. Georges de Bellio at the Musée Marmottan in Paris
10th October 2007 - 3rd February 2008

Musée Marmottant Monnet
www.marmottan.com
2, rue Louis-Boilly
75016 Paris

Tél. : 01 44 96 50 33
Fax : 01 40 50 65 84
marmottan@marmottan.com

10 a.m. to 6 p.m. every day
The registers close at 5.30 p.m.
Closed Mondays, 1st January, 1st May, 25th December

Entrance fees
Full price : 8€
Reduced price: 4,50€
(students under 25, amis du Louvre…)
Free for children under 8

Métro : Muette (Line 9 : Pont de Sèvres - Mairie de Montreuil)

RER : Boulainvilliers (line C)

Autobus :
22 Opéra (rue Gluck) - Porte de St-Cloud
32 Gare de l'Est - Port de Passy
52 République - Pont de St-Cloud
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Ferdinand Hodler until February 3rd, 2008 at Musée d'Orsay

Ferdinand Hodler was considered during his lifetime as a leading artist in the Modernist movement. Born in Berne in 1853, he lived in Geneva until his death in 1918, but this was a European career marked by both success and scandal. He was a member of the great Secessions and saw his work acclaimed in Vienna, Berlin and Munich. His triumph in Paris came in 1891 when his seminal painting Night (Berne, Kunstmuseum), was banned by the city of Geneva for reasons of obscenity. But at the same time, he was receiving major public commissions from Zürich, Geneva, Iena and Frankfurt. These produced many opportunities for the artist to indulge his taste for simplified, monumental or decorative paintings. Holdler is also an uncompromising portrait painter and unequalled landscape painter.


At the end of the nineteenth century Hodler was one of the leading Symbolist painters. His creative force, his taste for decoration and his simplified painting are reminiscent of Rodin and Puvis de Chavannes, the undisputed masters with whom he is often compared. However, Hodler remains relatively unknown in France, whereas in Switzerland he is considered their great painter, and in Germany and Austria he is regarded as one of the founders of modern art.
This exhibition at the Musée d'Orsay offers a real opportunity to rediscover Hodler, with eighty paintings, many on show in France for the first time, and about thirty paintings and photographs.


Ferdinand Hodler (1853-1918)
13 November 2007 - 3 February 2008

Musée d'Orsay
www.musee-orsay.fr
62, rue de Lille
75343 Paris Cedex 07

Information +33 (0)1 40 49 48 14

Musée d'Orsay entrance: 1, rue de la Légion d'Honneur, 75007 Paris.

9.30am to 6pm
9.30am to 9.45pm on Thursdays
Closed on mondays

Full rate: € 7.50
Concessions: € 5.50 €
Under 18s and members: free

Rodin and photography Until March 2nd, 2008 at Musée Rodin

Luck would have it that Rodin was born one year after photography. While he pursued his career as a sculptor, this new reproduction technique experienced what was probably its most fertile and inventive years. The artist was by no means oblivious to the practical and aesthetic appeal of this new medium, and the approximately 7,000 pictures he amassed between 1879 and 1917 illustrate both his own story and the history of photography.


Photography has opened for us the doors of his studio, which lay at the heart of his creation during the 1880s. This is where lumps of clay took shape, The Burghers of Calais were modelled naked before being clothed, and The Gates of Hell covered with a multitude of figures. Rodin started by hiring unknown photographers from the neighbourhood, Bodmer, Pannelier and Freuler who, unlike him, remained in the shadows. And then the clay figures were transformed into plaster, bronze and marble, and the studio became increasingly crowded. By the end of the 1890s, Rodin was an artist recognised by both his peers and the general public. Eugène Druet, an amateur photographer, followed by Jacques-Ernest Bulloz, became his official photographers, each one in his own manner following Rodin’s precise instructions.

Your photographs will make people understand my Balzac

A.Rodin to E. Steichen

This evolution in the role and place of photography in the sculpted work of Rodin is an accurate reflection of what happened in the early 20th century: photography was viewed under a different angle so that it gradually attained the status of an artwork.

This large-scale exhibition, devoted to the photographic collection of the Rodin Museum, will present 200 photographs for the first time since the Salon des Pictorialistes held in 1993. A catalogue, jointly published by the Rodin Museum and Gallimard, will accompany the exhibition.

RODIN AND PHOTOGRAPHY
Exhibition from 14th November 2007 to 2nd March 2008

Musée Rodin
www.musee-rodin.fr
79, rue de Varenne
75007 Paris

Metro Varenne (line 13)

Opening hours: 9.30am-4.45pm every day except Mondays.
Closed 25th December and 1st January
Admission price: Adults 6 euros, concession 4 euros.
Combined exhibition + permanent collection ticket + garden: 9€, concession: 6€