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€

Christian Lacroix, fashion stories Until April 20, 2008 at the Musée de la Mode et du Textile

For over a year, Christian Lacroix has been immersed in the collections of costumes and accessories from the museum. The result is an atypical exhibition in which the designer delivers his vison of fashion, subjective and creative ...

The Musée de la Mode et du Textile prompt fashion designer Christian Lacroix to become the curator and fashion historian he never was, when as student of art history at the Ecole du Louvre he decided to commit himself in a creative work now globally recognized and appreciated. For over a year, Christian Lacroix has been immersed in the collections of costumes and accessories from the museum. The result is an atypical exhibition in which the designer delivers his vison of fashion, subjective and creative... The models he selected from a century rich heritage will meet for a few months haute-couture creations of one of the greatest names in French fashion.


The exhibition is a unique adventure, a story of fashion from the eighteenth century to the present day freely and subjectively told by Christian Lacroix himself.
More than 400 clothes, carefully chosen according to themes or techniques the fashion designer loves and that have marked the history of fashion, are set against his own creations, creating a game of echoes and crossing between the present and the past.

Christian Lacroix, fashion stories
Until April 20, 2008

Musée de la Mode et du Textile
http://www.lesartsdecoratifs.fr/
109-111, Rue de Rivoli
75001 Paris Plan d'accès
Tel : 01 44 55 57 50

Hours and dates :
from 08/11/07 to 06/04/08 from 10am to 06pm : Sunday, Saturday
from 08/11/07 to 06/04/08 from 11am to 06pm : Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday
from 08/11/07 to 06/04/08 from 11am to 09pm : Thursday

Entrance fee:
Full rate: 8.00 €
Reduced rate : 6.50 €

The Roaring Twenties (1919-1929) at the Galliéra museum until February 28th, 2008

The fashion style of the "roaring twenties" reflects a decade hungry for movement, speed and frenzy. The 170 models, 200 accessories and 50 perfumes and cosmetics mainly from the Galliera funds and presented in this exhibition are a token of this period.

Between 1919 and 1929, the spirit of the time is to empower women and their bodies. The smart (Elegante, Parisian chic) woman of the 20's knows the ecstasy of driving a car, the freedom to cut their hair, make-up, smoking in public, appearing in "tomboy" and having a modern lifestyle.

The scenarized scenes designed for the exhibition are an invitation to share twenty-four hours in the life of this "Parisian chic."

During the day, sobriety is a must: simplicity of the cut is associated with cosy materials, embroidery made way for discrete ribbons, binding and lace. The modern woman is experiencing the flexibility and ease of clothing designed from the male athlete cloakroom or sportswear - sweater, knitwear, pajamas ...
In the evening, the purity of the lines of the clothes combined with the preciousness of decorative effects reveals, with dazzling lighting effects, the lamés, metal fringed lace, satins and beaded muslin, semi-precious stones, feathers and strass.

The Callot sisters, Chanel, Heim, Jenny, Patou, Poiret, Talbot, Worth are among the big names present in the exhibition, along with Lanvin, with the evocation of the Pavillon de l'Elegance (International Exhibition of Decorative Arts 1925 in Paris).
The journey ends on the major streams which have gone through the fashion of 1920's: modernity with Vionnet, Lelong, Art Deco with Dunand, painting with Delaunay, Gontcharova… and influences which, from Japan to Russia, through Africa, inspired prints and embroideries typical of those crazy years.

Illustration sounds, photographs and newsreels are evocations in the context of the time.

Commissioner
Sophie Grossiord, Chief Curator at the museum Galliera
Scenography
Antoine Fontaine and Marc Jeanclos

The Roaring Twenties (1919-1929)
until February 28th, 2008
Musée Galliera
www.galliera.paris.fr
10, avenue Pierre 1 of Serbia
75116 Paris
Tel.: 01 56 52 86 00 / fax: 01 47 23 38 37

Metro: Iéna or Alma Marceau
Open from 10 am to 18 pm
Every day except Monday (14 am to 18 pm on holidays)

Entrance fee
Full fare: 7 € / reduced price: 5, 50 €
young's fare(14-26 years): 3, 50 €
Free: less than 14 years