Pinacotheque de Paris Announces Alberto Giacometti and the Etruscans Exhibition

PARIS.- It is the most eventful exhibition of the fall, an exhibition that the specialists and art lovers of Giacometti, have been expecting for over fifty years. Giacometti’s attraction to the primitive figure was present very early on in the artist’s oeuvre. Etruscan art, which he first of all discovered in the Louvre, in the archeological department, where he went regularly, then during the exhibition on the Etruscans in 1955 in Paris, was, however, to produce in the artist a very [...]

Pinacotheque de Paris Presents a Retrospective Exhibition of Works by Hugo Pratt

PARIS- The Pinacothèque de Paris presents an exhibition of works by Hugo Pratt, on view from March 17 through August 21, 2011. Thanks to this vast retrospective, the public can discover the breadth of the talent of the creator of Corto Maltese. This exhibition shows over 150 watercolors, most of them little known by the broad public, as well as historical images, more specifcally the whole of the 164 plates of the mythical Ballade de la mer salée. Since the [...]

The Romanovs, Tsars and Art Collectors at the Pinacotheque de Paris

PARIS.- For the opening of its new rooms, the Pinacothèque de Paris has organised an exceptional exhibition around a major theme: the birth of a Museum. Through May 29 2011, the Pinacothèque de Paris displays the treasures of the Romanovs, a unique ensemble consisting of a hundred works from the Hermitage Museum in Saint-Petersburg. Assembled since the end of the 17th century, the Russian imperial collections have quickly become part of the largest European collections. As early as 1785, Count Ernst [...]

Exhibition at Pinacotheque Shows Avant-Garde Anguished Edvard Munch had Another Side

PARIS.- Edvard Munch plumbed the depths of humanity’s anguish with “The Scream,” but that iconic painting is but a moment in the life of the Norwegian artist. A Paris exhibit — entitled the “The Anti-Scream” — looks at another Munch, whose experiments, including subjecting his works to rain or snow or scratching through the canvas, reveal a complex artist who surpassed his inner torment to cut a path into modernity. The exhibit of more than 170 paintings, lithographs and engravings [...]