Musée d'Art Moderne Paris
Musée d'Art Moderne is a hidden treasure of Paris. Located on the Seine river banks near the Eiffel Tower, housed in an art déco building, it is as rich as Centre Pompidou and far less crowded. First class temporary exhibitions. Paris museums.
Musée d'Art Moderne facts
Don't confuse the Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, managed by the city, with the National Museum of Modern Art in Centre Pompidou, managed by the state.
Hosted in the beautiful Palais de Tokyo and continuously enriched by donations (in 2011, 4 paintings by Bernard Buffet and 61 by Giorgio de Chirico), the Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris displays 20th century masterpieces in a spacious and bright environment. The museum is famous for its paintings by Giorgio de Chirico, Robert Delaunay, Raoul Dufy (La fee electricite), Fernand Leger, Henri Matisse (La danse), Kees Van Dongen.
Robert Delaunay - Musée d'Art Moderne
Palais de Tokyo
The Musée d'Art Moderne is housed in Palais de Tokyo. The creation of Palais de Tokyo was the result of an architectural competition opened in 1934 by the city and the French State. They wanted to create a building to host collections housed in Petit Palais, Jeu de Paume and Palais du Luxembourg. Architects Jean-Claude André Aubert Dondel, Marcel Paul and Viard Dastugue won the design competition. The Art Deco building was inaugurated in 1937 as the Palace of the Museums of Modern Art during the International Exhibition of Arts and Technology in Modern Life.
Musée d'Art Moderne
Art Moderne collections
The Musée d'Art Moderne has 6000 pieces of art spanning the 20th century. It is divided into halls dedicated to artistic movements such as Cubism, Fauvism, Realism, Abstract and Contemporary Art. The museum includes a section on decorative art and furniture from the 1920s and 1930s.
The museum's permanent collections include many works of high quality by the most prominent 20th century artists.
Among them are Pablo Picasso, Georges Braque, Henri Matisse, Raoul Dufy, Francis Picabia, Robert and Sonia Delaunay, Amedeo Modigliani, Giorgio de Chirico, Marc Chagall, Alexander Calder, Alberto Giacometti, Max Ernst, Pierre Soulages, Nicolas de Staël and Victor Vasarely.
One of the most impressive paintings is the gigantic painting by Raoul Dufy, called La Fée Electricité, which narrates the history of electricity with bright colors.
Modigliani painting in Musée art moderne
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Paris 75116 Paris France
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Musée d'Art Moderne entrance fee: free entrance to permanent collections. Open Tuesday to Sunday from 10am to 6pm. Late opening of exhibitions on Thursday until 10pm. Ticket counters close at 5.15 pm (9.15 pm Thursday).
Gorgio di Chirico - Musée art moderne