Lucas Cranach L’Ancien, “Vénus and Cupidon stealing honey”, 1531, (C) Rmn-Grand Palais, Fondation Bemberg, photo Mathieu Rabeau

While Musée d’Orsay has seen its figures of visitors climb to 5,1 million this year, Château de Chantilly has also increased up to 522 693 in 2023. Seeing the lines outside MAM and the Louvre, over the Christmas vacations in Paris, one is bewildered by the success of cultural tourism. For its tenth year of existence, Parisdiary will try to make you dream even more about Parisian artistic temptations. And here is what to expect in the Spring.

From 1 to 11 February, l’Opéra Comique will produce ” l’Autre voyage”,  lyrical moments on Franz Schubert’s music and texts by Heine, Goethe… Conducted by Raphael Pichon and directed by Silvia Costa, the show includes singers Stéphane Degout, Australian soprano Siobhan Stagg, Laurence Kilsby and Chad Lazeqr.  On February 2, Fondation Bemberg will reopen in Toulouse with its exceptional Bonnard collection after three years of works. The refined museum founded by collector Georges Bemberg in 1994, is definitely worth a trip.

Jean Dominique Antony Metzinger, “Au velodrome”, 1912, Venice, Collection Peggy Guggenheim at Musée Marmottan-Monet

On April 4, Musée Marmottan Monet, inaugurates “En Jeu!, Artists and sport 1870-1930”. One of the many shows organized around next summer’s Olympic Games, it will be interesting to see that our ancestors had already invented everything… through a hundred works curated by Erik Desmazières and Bertrand Tillier. 

Musée de Picardie, Amiens, “On the Impressionist beach, the eye of Edouard Manet”, 16 March to 16 June

To mark 150 years of Impressionism, “Printemps Impressionniste” will be celebrated in thirty four museums in France thanks to loans from Musée d’Orsay. Amiens, Douai, Lille, Roubaix and Tourcoing in the North of France will all participate from 16 March  to June 16.

Theodore Rousseau, A Tree in the forest of Fontainebleau

At Musée de Montmartre, Auguste Herbin will be rediscovered by many amateurs on March 15, just after Petit Palais inaugurates a show on trees by Theodore Rousseau, “La Voix de la Forêt”  on March 5. At Fondation Yves St Laurent  we will look for “Transparences” on 9 February.  And Palais Galliera opens its doors to the great photographer Paolo Roversi on March 16.

Auguste Herbin, Lune, 1945, Courtesy Galerie Lahumière, Adagp Paris 2023

At Fondation Pierre Gianadda, in Martigny, the first exhibition where Leonard Gianadda will not be present with his natural passion, is devoted to “Albert Anker and childhood”. The Swiss painter lost two of his children at a young age and is fascinated by them. Curated by Matthias Frehner, it will be showing the collection of Dr Christoph Blocher and paintings from Bern’s Kunstmuseum  and Winterthur’s…

Albert Anker is at Fondation Pierre Gianadda from February 1 until June 30