Musée de l’Orangerie

Located in the Tuileries Garden, since 1984 the museum has been home to the Jean Walter and Paul Guillaume collection, which has been sold to the state on very generous terms. This collection includes 144 paintings from the late nineteenth and the first half of the twentieth century (Cezanne, Renoir, Matisse, Picasso, Derain, Soutine, Modigliani, Utrillo, Douanier Rousseau ...). It joined the eight immense compositions of Water Lilies that Monet offered to France in 1922 and which have been installed since 1927 in two large oval rooms specially fitted out in the building, on the indications of the painter to receive them.

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Robert Ryman. The act of looking

6 March 2024 1 July 2024
The Musée de l'Orangerie is devoting an exhibition to the American artist Robert Ryman (1930-2019). Named « Le regard en acte » (The act of looking), this first large-scale presentation of the painter's work on in a French public institution since 1981 confirms the artist's historical importance five years after his death. Too often equated with the American minimalist movement (with which it usually...

The Musée de l'Orangerie, which harbors Claude Monet's ultimate masterpiece, the Nymphéas, is a venue well suited to this reinterpretation. Ryman, who rejected the notion of influence and the idea of exhibiting in dialogue with another artist, nonetheless has his place in the history of painting, by calling each of its aspects and fundamentals into question. Like Monet before him, he focused, almost obsessively, on his medium's specificities, examining notions of surface, the work's limit, the space into which it is incorporated, the light it plays with, and the duration in which it is deployed.

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Claire Bernardi, Director of the Musée de l'Orangerie, with the collaboration of Guillaume Fabius, Assistant Curator

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