Musée de l’Orangerie

From September 20, 2023 to January 15, 2024

Almost a century after the two men met in 1914, this exhibition aims to revisit one of the iconic moments in Amedeo Modigliani’s life, the one in which Paul Guillaume became his dealer. It will focus on exploring the way in which links between the two characters may throw light on the artist’s career.

From October 11, 2023 to February 12, 2024

Nitsch is a major artist of the Viennese Actionism movement, of which he was one of the founders. Recognized internationally as the master of Austrian performance art, the artist has developed a powerfully expressive body of work, borrowing from religious dramaturgy.

Offered to the French State by the painter Claude Monet on the day that followed the Armistice of November 11, 1918 as a symbol for peace, the Water Lilies are installed according to plan at the Orangerie Museum in 1927, a few months after his death. This unique set, a true « Sixtine Chapel of Impressionism » in the words of André Masson in 1952, testifies to Monet’s later work. It was designed as a real environment and crowns the Water Lilies cycle begun nearly thirty years before. The set is one of the largest monumental achievements of early twentieth-century painting.

The Jean Walter and Paul Guillaume collection is one of the most wonderful European collections of paintings, bringing together 148 works from the 1860s to the 1930s.

The Jean Walter and Paul Guillaume collection was mainly put together by Paul Guillaume, a young passionate French art dealer. From 1914 to his death in 1934, he built up a rich collection of several hundred paintings, from impressionism to modern art, as well as African and Oceanian artworks. He became wealthy and well known, from Europe to the US, and died at the peak of his fame when he was considering opening a museum.