To coincide with the equestrian events at the Paris 2024 Olympic Games, to be hosted on the Versailles estate, the Château is holding a major exhibition dedicated to horses and equestrian civilisation in Europe - the first exhibition on this theme to be presented on such a scale.

From 2 July to 3 November 2024, the Palace of Versailles will be holding an exhibition entitled "Horse in Majesty - At the Heart of a Civilisation". Nearly 300 works will highlight the roles and uses of horses in civil and military society, from the sixteenth to the twentieth century, up to the eve of the First World War, which marked the end of horse-drawn civilisation and the relegation of horses to the realm of leisure.

This first exhibition dedicated to horses on such a scale will be divided into thirteen sections on a tour leading visitors through several emblematic areas of the Palace: the Africa Rooms, the King's State Apartment, the Hall of Mirrors, the War and Peace Rooms, Madame Maintenon's Apartment and the Dauphine's Apartment.

Curators : 

Laurent Salomé, Director of the Musée National des Châteaux de Versailles et de Trianon
Hélène Delalex, Heritage Curator at the Musée National des Châteaux de Versailles et de Trianon

patron

Thanks to the patronage of the CMA CGM Group.

An exhibition organised at the Musée national Fernand Léger, Biot by the Musée national du XXe siècle des Alpes- Maritimes and the Réunion des musées nationaux - Grand Palais in partnership with the Musée d'Art Moderne et d'Art Contemporain (MAMAC), Nice.

From June to autumn 2024, the Fernand Léger national museum in Biot and the Musée d'Art Moderne et d'Art Contemporain (MAMAC) in Nice will be celebrating artistic creativity with an exhibition bringing together the joyful and colourful work of the painter Fernand Léger (1881-1955) and key works from the MAMAC.

Summer event at the Guimet museum, the exhibition "At the heart of color" traces the long history of porcelain and grand feu colors in China between the 8rd and 18rd centuries. Coming from the extraordinary Zhuyuetang collection of Richard Kan (Hong Kong) and that of the Guimet museum, 250 masterpieces illustrate the Chinese taste for formal simplicity and purity of colors, resulting from centuries of perfection. The incessant quest for purity, until finding the perfect shape and color, has given birth to unique pieces of great aesthetic finesse, presented in the exhibition.

The Musée national Picasso-Paris presents its new temporary exhibition "Picasso Iconophage" from June 11 to September 15, 2024 in the first floor spaces. The exhibition analyzes the modernity of Pablo Picasso's conception of the image by exploring the artistic and extra-artistic sources of his work and their modes of appropriation.

Pablo Picasso's multi-referenced work is striking for the richness of its visual culture. Celebrated by the avant-garde as the destroyer of academicism, Picasso never ceased to present himself as the heir to a long pictorial tradition. His ambiguous relationship with art history raises both the question of sources and the question of how they are appropriated. A frequent visitor to the Louvre, Picasso accumulated a lifetime's worth of photographs, postcards, reproductions, posters, magazines and illustrated books, not to mention the works in his personal collection. This amassed repertoire of iconography is symptomatic of a new way of thinking about the image, free from the artistic field and historical time. Nevertheless, there is no literal quotation in his work: his variations on the paintings of the great masters are above all deconstructions; his forms and compositions are always hybrid. The exhibition highlights how Picasso's paintings, sculptures and drawings are part of a complex network of source images, with four themes running through his work: the hero, the Minotaur, the voyeur and the musketeer.

EXHIBITION CURATORS

Cécile Godefroy, Head of the Centre d'Études Picasso, Musée national Picasso-Paris

Anne Montfort-Tanguy, Curator in the Graphic Art Department of the Musée national d'art moderne and professor of modern art history at the École du Louvre