An unprecedented exhibition dedicated to Paul Cezanne (1839-1906) and his artistic legacy. From Paul Gauguin to Henri Matisse, Pablo Picasso, Piet Mondrian, Joan Mitchell, Bridget Riley, and Peter Doig, nearly 180 artworks show how his work has been discovered, interpreted, and transformed, from the late 19th century to the present day.

In the late 1880s, when he was no longer seeking to exhibit his work, artists and collectors discovered Cezanne's work in Père Tanguy's shop. There they found a formal radicalism that reinforced their quest for a "pure" art, already well on the path to abstraction.

Subsequently, Cézanne gradually gained recognition, and his work began to be widely embraced. From the first monographic exhibitions organized by the art dealer Ambroise Vollard to major museum and international events, as well as the first major posthumous exhibitions such as the Salon d'Automne in 1907, he emerged as one of the defining figure of modernity.

His work became a point of reference for the avant-garde movements of the 20th century, which questioned the relationship between painting and reality and found in the idea that "art is a harmony parallel to nature" an essential tool for reflection.

Starting with Cezanne, the triumph of modern art and that of formalism-or the reduction of painting to its fundamental compositional elements-has continually been reworked and transcended. Paul Gauguin, Henri Matisse, Pablo Picasso, Piet Mondrian, Joan Mitchell, Bridget Riley, Peter Doig... From lyrical abstraction and geometric abstraction, to "hard-edge" painting, Cezanne remains a constant point of reference: sometimes claimed, sometimes reinterpreted, always debated. In the age of post-modernism, his status as the "father of modern art" continues to be questioned.

Cezanne et nous is the first exhibition to simultaneously tell this dual story: that of his fundamental influence and, in contrast, the story of the artists who claimed him. The exhibition reveals a complex and multifaceted history shaped by appropriation, artistic lineage, and aesthetic tensions. It invites you to view Cezanne through the successive perspectives he has inspired, culminating in our own contemporary gaze.

Exhibition co-produced by the GrandPalaisRmn, the Centre Pompidou, and the Public Establishment of the Musée d'Orsay and the Musée de l'Orangerie - Valéry Giscard d'Estaing

Curators

Claire Bernardi, Director of the Musée de l'Orangerie

Michel Gauthier, Curator of Contemporary Collections, Musée national d'art moderne - Centre Pompidou

Xavier Rey, Director of the Musée national d'art moderne, Centre Pompidou 

Jean-Rémi Touzet, Curator of Paintings, Musée d'Orsay

Scénographie: Pauline Phelouzat, Architect and Exhibition Designer, Centre Pompidou

From September 22, 2026, to January 24, 2027, the Palace of Versailles celebrates the twentieth anniversary of Sofia Coppola's film Marie Antoinette with an exhibition at the Petit Trianon-designed in collaboration with the director-that explores the work's genesis, aesthetic choices, and cultural impact.

Behind the Scenes of a Cult Film

Released in 2006 and filmed largely at the Palace of Versailles, Marie Antoinette boldly breaks away from the conventions of historical biography to explore-in an intimate manner-a fascinating figure long obscured by legend. Vilified during the French Revolution, sanctified under the Restoration, and later aestheticized from the Second Empire onwards, Marie Antoinette emerges under Sofia Coppola's lens as a deeply human figure: a young woman grappling with isolation, boredom, and the constraints of court life.

Now considered a cult film, Marie Antoinette played a pivotal role in shaping a cultural icon that blends history, modernity, and pop imagery. Winner of the 2007 Academy Award for Best Costume Design, Sofia Coppola's distinctive aesthetic-balancing historical accuracy, contemporary boldness, and pastel refinement-gave rise to a genuine "Marie Antoinette style," the influence of which is still felt in fashion, design, and photography today.

Presented at the Petit Trianon, the exhibition-conceived in collaboration with Sofia Coppola-invites visitors behind the scenes of the film's creation, showcasing original costumes by Milena Canonero, props, storyboards, annotated scripts, on-set photographs, set elements, and recreated spaces. Screenings allow visitors to view sequences in the very rooms where they were filmed, offering a unique experience where the historic setting and the cinematic reinterpretation dialogue with one another.

Curators

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

While Andy Warhol's name immediately brings to mind silkscreen prints and portraits of celebrities, his drawings play a central role in his artistic practice. The exhibition "Andy Warhol. Line and image" reveals how this medium, far from being secondary accompanied his entire career.

The exhibition is organized around five thematic sections: his early career as an advertising illustrator; the importance of handwriting; his fascination with faces and masks; gay iconography that long remained private; and reflections on death, which became an obsession after the 1968 assassination attempt that nearly cost him his life.

The exhibition brings together approximately 150 drawings, as well as paintings, silkscreen prints on paper, photographs, and archival documents. It highlights the artist's technical inventiveness and the techniques he developed (stamping, broken lines or lines obtained by transfer, stencils, collage), designed for the reproduction and repetition of images. Rare or overlooked drawings and documents offer insight into the making of the work and provide a glimpse into the heart of the artist's New York studio, The Factory. These various avenues invite you to reconsider Warhol's entire work through this dialogue between gesture and reproduction, between hand and machine.

Exhibition organized by the GrandPalaisRmn

CURATOR

Alain Cueff - Art Historian

Scenography: Véronique Dollfus

In spring 2026, at the Grand Trianon, the exhibition "Gardens of the Enlightenment, 1750-1800" offers a unique insight into landscape gardens in the 18th century. The exhibition tour brings together almost 160 works, including paintings, drawings, furniture, architectural plans, and costumes, spectacularly presented to showcase the birth of an art of landscape freed from the rules of the French formal garden and celebrating irregularity, fantasy and a philosophical evocation of nature. With close reference to the gardens commissioned by Marie-Antoinette at the Petit Trianon, the exhibition offers a sensitive rereading of iconic sites which visitors can then discover for themselves, such as the Belvedere, the Temple of Love and the Queen's Hamlet.

Curator

Elisabeth Maisonnier, Chief heritage curator, National Museum of the Châteaux of Versailles and Trianon.

Partners

The exhibition is a special partnership with the Bibliothèque nationale de France