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Your Patronage at work:
Since 2011, your patronage provided major support for:
Exhibitions:
“Manet, Inventor of Modernity“, 2011
“Degas and the Nude“, 2012
“The Water Lilies. American Abstract Painting and the Last Monet“, 2018
“Pastels. Fom Millet to Redon“, 2023
Contemporary Art Program at the Orsay and Orangerie museums, 2019-2023
Education:
Over 100 private Patron’s Pass tours of exhibitions
Catalogs:
The exhibition catalog A Passion for France – The Marlene and Spencer Hays Collection, 2013
The exhibition catalog Archives of the Dream, Drawings from the Musee d’Orsay – Carte Blanche for Werner Spies, 2014
The exhibition catalog Frédéric Bazille (1841-1870). The Youth of Impressionism, 2016
The exhibition catalog Bonnard / Vuillard. La donation Zeïneb et Jean-Pierre Marcie -Rivière, 2016
The exhibition catalog An American in Paris. Architectures Drawings from the Neil Levine’s Donation, 2016
The exhibition album Pastels. From Millet to Redon, 2023
Capital Improvement:
The new Graphic Arts Gallery in the Nouvel Orsay
The refurbishment of the lighting in the Orangerie’s legendary oval galleries that hold Claude Monet’s world-renowned Water Lilies
The refurbishment of two spaces on the upper and lower levels of the Orsay’s nave, as part of the action plan to improve the public’s reception
Conservation:
The restoration of Liberty Enlightening the World (1889)
The restoration of Gustave Courbet’s masterpiece The Painter’s Studio
The restoration and box framing of 47 works from the Zeïneb and Jean-Pierre Marcie-Rivière’s donation
The restoration and cleaning of marbles from the Musée d’Orsay’s sculpture collection
GRANTS:
Herter Brothers American Chairs, Herter Brothers Chaise Longue
Les Fables de La Fontaine, illustrated by Gustave Doré, Paris, Librairie Hachette, 1868
Set of 128 photographs (cyanotypes, platinum prints, silver prints) by Frances Benjamin Johnston (1864-1952), the majority of which comes from her Studio Collection