I have to admit I did not know Eugène Leroy‘s paintings and the very large (169 works) exhibition at Musée d’Art Moderne Paris, is a revelation. This artist from Tourcoing, who lived to be 90, had different themes of predilection and the clever design of the exhibition set in a multitude of intimate white rooms, devotes a special space to … Read More
“The Theatre of Emotions” at Musée Marmottan-Monet, did not move me
An art critic friend of mine told me that if I wasn’t moved by the show “Le Théâtre des Emotions” at Musée Marmottan-Monet, it meant it was too intellectual for me… Which I concede. The paintings gathered here are all interesting and some of them are even beautiful, but I never found the link between them. Yes “Le verrou de … Read More
The news of Easter week
The first wonderful surprise of the week was to hear Marina Rebeka in Anna Bolena by Donizetti at Théâtre des Champs Elysées. She replaced at the last minute Sonya Yoncheva who was sick and will sing again next month at the Dutch National Opera in Amsterdam. If you are around, make sure to book your ticket. She is just amazing in … Read More
Marcel Proust and his mother at MahJ
Marcel Proust was baptized but he loved his mother who was Jewish. At Musée d’art et d’histoire du Judaïsme, Professor Antoine Compagnon and curator Isabelle Cahn have produced an exhibition on the writer’s Jewish world with -disappointingly- already well known paintings recently shown at Musée Carnavalet and at IMA. The greatest discovery of the show is Baruch Weil, 1780-1828, his … Read More
At Château de Fontainebleau, balls and parades are on tapestries …
“There never was in France such a display of magnificence and “courtliness” as during the last years of the reign of Henri II” writes Madame de Lafayette in her historical novel La Princesse de Clèves. This is one of the reasons to go and see the new show “L’Art de la fête à la cour des Valois” (Festivities at the court … Read More
Cameroun is celebrated twice this week at l’Odéon and at Quai Branly
This week marks a double success for Cameroun, the large country in Central Africa, which is home to Djaïli Amadou Amal, the writer (in French) of “Les Impatientes”, winner of Prix Goncourt des Lycées in 2020 and Ambassador for UNICEF since. She has been named Writer of the Year 2021 by Trophées de l’Edition, and a ceremony at Théâtre de l’Odéon … Read More
Romanticism is there, but unevenly
Just when Musée de la Vie romantique is opening a new (dreary) exhibition “Héroïnes Romantiques” (Romantic heroines until September 4), we learn that Musée des Beaux Arts d’Orléans has acquired at auction in Munich, Marie d’Orléans’ portrait by Ary Scheffer (1839), which had remained in her son’s Philippe de Wurtemberg’s family ever since. And at Galerie La Nouvelle Athènes, the opening of … Read More
Art Paris and PAD, talent is everywhere
The atmosphère at ArtParis was very electrical and within ten minutes I had already seen four galleries with works I loved. At Mayoral, Vieira da Silva with a large “Blue and Yellow, The Villages”, and a remarkable Joaquin Torres-Garcia, “Dos formas en ocre y rojo” from 1938. At Claude Bernard, Sheila Hicks and Julius Bissier transformed the booth into a … Read More