To coincide with the 2024 Olympic and Paralympic Games, held in Paris for the first time in 100 years, Musée Marmottan Monet will be presenting the exhibition titled “En Jeu! Artists and Sport (1870-1930).
From Impressionism to Cubism, the display will show how sportsmanship was made into an icon of modernity and the avant-garde. It will explore the ethical challenges and aesthetic aspects of how sports were perceived by artists such as Monet, Degas, Caillebotte, Toulouse-Lautrec, Eakins, Richer, Maillol, Rodin, Bellows, Lhote, Delaunay, Metzinger and Gromaire, including elitist sports such as horse-riding, sailing and fencing and age-old sports such as wrestling, boxing and ball games. It will also look at the metaphorical meanings of the heroic figure of the artist as sportsmen, characterized by determination, stamina and a form of resistance.
Please join us for a special before-hours visit to the exhibition “En Jeu, Artists and Sport” at Musée Marmottan Monet in Paris.
Invitation to follow soon.
All invitations are personal and non-transferable.
Image: © Kees Van Dongen (1877-1968) La Course,1904.© RMN-Grand Palais / Mathieu Rabeau. © ADAGP, Paris