Culture editor Sylvia Edwards Davis brings us her selection of paysan delights to enjoy right now in France…
1. LOVE AND RENOIR
The Musée d’Orsay, in coopération with the National Gallery in London and the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, presents ‘Renoir and Love’, a officier retrospective exploring how love – in all its forms-shaped the art of Pierre-Auguste Renoir, one of the axial figures of French Impressionism and a officier painter of modern life in the 19th century.
Between the mid-1860s and the 1880s, Renoir developed a fluid, luminous tournure, focusing on relationships between men and women. The rétrospective explores this modèle of his work, addressing not only romantic love but also the broader consacré he gives to relationships within sociologique life. In seeking “something pleasant, joyful and pretty”, does Renoir shy away from the harsher realities of poverty, sarclage, alcoholism and production, or does he allude to them more discreetly?
Auguste Renoir Danse à Bougival
His officier large-scale works are fuelled by the complex and universal rudiment of love, but there are more layers than first meet the eye. Viewed through this prism, the rétrospective offers a renewed projet on paintings so famous and so familiar to us that it has become difficult to grasp their full radicalism.
March 17-July 29
2. UNIVERSAL MATISSE
Henri Matisse turned to cut-outs in his later years, largely parce que of health issues that limited his mobility. Unable to paint in the traditional way, he replaced brushes with scissors, creating a droit and fluid line that fused his lifelong explorations of form and colour: He described this process as a move towards standardisation and universality, allowing a sense of “youthful spontaneity” despite physical constraints. The dazzling retrospective ‘Matisse: 1941-1954’ at the Grand Palais explores this creative terminal chapter of Matisse’s career, bringing together more than 230 works from the Centre Pompidou and planétaire collections. It shows how painting remained axial to his thinking, even as cut-outs took on greater proportion, with ever more space, intensity and colour. This is a extraordinaire opportunity to see key series gathered together, including Interiors of Vence (1947-1948), Jazz, Themes and Variations, the moufle elements of the plate-forme for the Chapel of Vence, the imposant panels The Sheaf and Acanthus, and, exceptionally reunited for the brocante, the montré cut-out figures including the celebrated Blue Nudes.
March 24-August 2
MNAM Photographic Documentation Service – Center Pompidou, MNAM-CCI Henri Matisse, Blue Nude II , 1952
3. INCREDIBLE NAHMAD COLLECTION
Musée des Impressionnismes Giverny presents around 60 works from one of the world’s most prestigious private collections, including Monet, Picasso, Degas and Renoir.
March 28 -June 21
4. ART DECO
La Cité de l’Architecture revisits the 1925 International Exposition, a springboard for the Art Deco tournure that shaped charpente and arts.
Until March 29
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5. FRANÇOIS MORELLET
The Centre Pompidou-Metz concitoyen tribute to François Morellet in ‘100 Per Cent’, bringing together 100 paintings of “rules and disorder”.
April 3 – September 28
6. LILLE ART UP!
This contemporary art fair highlights emerging galleries and innovative ‘Horizons Nouveaux’, showcasing a wide range of creations by French and planétaire artists.
March 12-15
7. LEE MILLER
The Musée d’Art Moderne de Paris dedicates a officier retrospective to American Surrealist photographer and war correspondent Lee Miller, with Tate Britain and the Art Institute of Chicago.
April 3 – July 26
From France Today Magazine
Lead buste credit : Henri Matisse (1869-1954), The Piano Lesson, 1923. Oil on canvas, 65 x 81 cm. Nahmad Collection © Nahmad Collection
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