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Save the Date — May 2012

Jane del Monte — Tue, 01 May 2012 10:08:01 +0000

Paris

Through 20 May 2012 – “Néon: Who’s Afraid of Red, Yellow and Blue?” La Maison Rouge (Métro Quai de la Rapée or Bastille), www.lamaisonrouge.org

Through 21 May 2012 — “Art Spiegelman,” Centre Pompidou (Métro Rambuteau, Hôtel de Ville or Châtelet), www.centrepompidou.fr

Through 3 June 2012 – “L’Invention du sauvage” (The Invention of the Savage), Musée du Quai Branly (Métro Alma-Marceau), www.quaibranly.fr

Through 17 June 2012 — Helmut Newton, Grand Palais (Métro Champs-Elysées-Clémenceau), www.grandpalais.fr

Through 18 June 2012 — “Matisse, paires et séries” (Matisse, Pairs and Series), Centre Pompidou (Métro Rambuteau, Hôtel de Ville or Châtelet), www.centrepompidou.fr

Through 25 June 2012 — “La Sainte Anne, l’ultime chef-d’œuvre de Léonard de Vinci” (Saint Anne, the Ultimate Masterpiece of Leonardo da Vinci), Musée du Louvre (Métro Palais Royal), www.louvre.fr

Through 1 July 2012 — “Berthe Morisot,” Musée Marmottan Monet (Métro La Muette), www.marmottan.com

Through 1 July 2012 — “Degas et le nu” (Degas and the Nude), Musée d’Orsay (Métro Solferino), www.musee-orsay.fr

Through 8 July 2012 — “Les Juifs dans l’Orientalisme” (The Jews in Orientalism), Musée d’Art et d’Histoire du Judaïsme (Métro Rambuteau or Hôtel de Ville), www.mahj.com

Through 15 July 2012 — “Artemisia, 1593/1654: Pouvoir, gloire et passions d’une femme peintre” (Artemisia, 1593/1654: Power, Glory and Passions of a Wo;an Painter), Musée Maillol (Métro Rue du Bac), www.museemaillol.com

Through 16 July 2012 — “Beauté animale – de Dürer à Jeff Koons” (Animal Beauty — from Dürer to Jeff Koons), Grand Palais (Métro Champs-Elysées-Clémenceau), www.grandpalais.fr

Through 23 July 2012 — “Le Crépuscule des Pharaons: Chefs-d’oeuvre des dernières dynasties égyptiennes” (The Twilight of the Pharaohs: Masterpieces of the Last Egyptian Dynasties), Musée Jacquemart-André (Métro Miromesnil or Saint-Philippe-du-Roule), www.musee-jacquemart-andré.com

Through 29 July 2012 — “Eugène Atget, Paris,” Musée Carnavalet (Métro Saint-Paul or Chemin Vert), www.carnavalet.paris.fr

Through 5 August 2012 – “J.M. Sert, le Titan à l’oeuvre (1874 – 1945″ (J.M Sert, the Work of the Titan), Petit Palais (Métro Champs Elysées-Clémenceau, www.petitpalais.paris.fr

Through 2 September 2012 — “Les Histoires de Babar” (The Stories of Babar), Musée des Arts Décoratifs (Métro Tuileries or Palais-Royal), www.lesartsdecoratifs.fr

Through 16 September 2012 — “Louis Vuitton Marc Jacobs,” Musée de la Mode et du Textile (Métro Tuileries or Palais-Royal), www.lesartsdecoratifs.fr

Through September 2012– “Poèmes en cristal: De Gallé à Lalique, la verrerie Art Nouveau du Petit Palais” (Poems in Crystal: From Gallé to Lalique, the Art Nouveau Glass of the Petit Palais), Petit Palais (Métro Champs-Elysées-Clémenceau), www.petitpalais.paris.fr

Through 15 November 2013 — “Trompe-L’oeil: Imitations, pastiches et autres illusions” (Trompe-l’oeil: Imitations, Pastiches and Other Illusions), Musée des Arts Décoratifs (Métro Tuileries or Palais-Royal), www.artsdecoratifs.fr

16 May – 25 August 2012 — “Paris, vu par Hollywood” (Paris, Seen by Hollywood), Hôtel de Ville de Paris Salle Saint-Jean (Métro Hôtel de Ville), www.paris.fr

6 June – 16 September 2012 — “Jean-Gabriel Domergue,” Le Musée du Montparnasse, www.museedumontparnasse.net

12 June – 9 September 2012 — “Misia, reine de Paris” (Misia, Queen of Paris), Musée d’Orsay (Métro Solférino), www.musee-orsay.fr

14 – 23 September 2012 — Biennale des Antiquaires, Grand Palais (Métro Champs-Elysées-Clémenceau), www.grandpalais.fr

20 September 2012 – 10 September 2013 — “Van Cleef & Arpels,” Musée des Arts Décoratifs (Métro Tuileries or Palais-Royal) www.lesartsdecoratifs.fr

25 September 2012 – 20 January 2013 — “Impressionisme et la Mode” (Impressionism and Style), Musée d’Orsay (Métro Solférino), www.musee-orsay.fr

Versailles

Through 13 May 2012 – “Les Guerres de Napoléon” (The Wars of Napoleon), Château de Versailles, www.chateauversailles.fr

Giverny

Through 15 July 2012 — “Maurice Denis, l’Eternel Printemps” (Maurice Denis, the Eternal Spring), Musée des Impressionnismes Giverny, www.mdig.fr

Metz

26 May – 24 September 2012 — “1917,” Centre Pompidou Metz, www.centrepompidou-metz.fr

Lyon

Through 2 July 2012 — “Emile Guimet et l’Egypte antique” (Emile Guimet and Ancient Egypt), Musée des Beaux Arts de Lyon, www.mba-lyon.fr

London

Through 15 July 2012 — “Picasso and Britain,” Tate Britain, www.tate.org.uk

Liverpool

22 June – 28 October 2012 – “Turner Monet Twombly,” Tate Liverpool, www.tate.org.uk/liverpool/exhibitions/TurnerMonetTwombly

Madrid

Through 20 May 2012 — “Chagall,” Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, www.museothyssen.org

9 October 2012 - 13 January 2013 — “Voyage to the Exotic: Homage to Gauguin,” Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, www.museothyssen.org

Montreal

12 October 2012 – 20 January 2013 — “Une histoire de l’impressionisme: Chefs-d’oeuvre de la peinture française du Clark” (A History of Impressionism: Masterpieces of French Painting from the Clark) Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, www.mbam.qc.ca

New York

Through 13 May 2012 — “Renoir, Impressionism and Full-Length Painting,” The Frick Collection, www.frick.org

Through 20 May 2012 — “Rembrandt and Degas: Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man,” Metropolitan Museum of Art, www.metmuseum.org

Through 3 June 2012 — “The Steins Collect: Matisse, Picasso and the Parisian Avant-Garde,” Metropolitan Museum of Art, www.metmuseum.org

4 May – 23 September 2012 — “Edouard Vuillard: A Painter and His Muses, 1890 – 1940,” The Jewish Museum, www.thejewishmuseum.org

Permanent Collection: Wrightsman Galleries for French Decorative Arts, Metropolitan Museum of Art, www.metmuseum.org

Philadelphia

Permanent Collection, Rodin Museum, Benjamin Franklin Parkway at 22nd Street, www.rodinmuseum.org

19 May 2012 - Barnes Foundation completes the move from Merion, PA, and reopens at its new location in Philadelphia, www.barnesfoundation.org

Washington, D.C.

Through- 6 May 2012 — “Snapshot: Painters and Photography, Bonnard to Vuillard, The Phillips Collection, www.phillipscollection.org

Through 6 May 2012 — “Picasso’s Drawings, 1890-1921: Reinventing Tradition,” National Gallery of Art, West Building, Ground Floor. See www.nga.org

Through 8 July 2012 — “A New Look: Samuel F.B. Morse’s Gallery of the Louvre,” National Gallery of Art, West Building Main Floor. See www.nga.org

Through 29 July 2012 — “Royalists to Romantics, Women Artists from the Louvre, Versailles and Other French National Collections,” National Museum of Women in the Arts, www.nmwa.org

Permanent Collection, “Small French Paintings,” East Building, National Gallery of Art, www.nga.gov

Permanent Collection, “Matisse Cutouts,” National Gallery of Art, East Building Tower. To protect the pigments and color, viewing hours are limited. See www.nga.gov

Richmond

Through 8 July 2012 — “Visions of France: Three Postwar Photographers,” Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Photography Gallery, www.VMFA.museum

Raleigh

21 October 2012 – 13 January 2013 — “Visual Feast: Masterpieces of Still Life from the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston,” North Carolina Museum of Art, www.ncartmuseum.org

Atlanta

22 June – 29 September 2012 — “Girl with a Pearl Earring: Dutch Paintings from the Mauritshuis,” High Museum of Art, www.high.org

Denver

Through 8 July 2012 — “Yves Saint Laurent – The Retrospective,” Denver Art Museum, www.denverartmuseum.org

Fort Worth

Through 17 June 2012 — “The Age of Impressionism: Great French Paintings from the Clark,” Kimbell Art Museum, www.kimbellart.org

San Francisco

Through 17 June 2012 — “The Cult of Beauty: The Victorian Avant-Garde, 1860 – 1900″ Legion of Honor Museum, www.famsf.org/legion

Through 19 August 2012 — “The Fashion World of Jean Paul Gaultier: From the Sidewalk to the Catwalk” de Young Fine Arts Museum, www.deyoungmuseum.org

Los Angeles

Permanent Collection: “Neoclassical, Romantic and Symbolist Sculpture and Decorative Arts,” West Pavilion, Getty Center, www.getty.edu/museum

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26th Biennale des Antiquaires — September 2012

Jane del Monte — Fri, 13 Apr 2012 01:35:23 +0000

Fountain at the Grand Palais, by Moonik

As much time as I’ve spent in Paris, and loving it as I do, putting together a tour of the city should be du gâteau (a piece of cake). Right? A resounding non! Perhaps because this city has meant (and still means) so much to me, I am at pains to do it justice. Never mind that I’ve been showing Paris to people for years, planning doesn’t seem to get easier.

Having said that, the logistics have been arranged, and ARTS in PARIS is pleased to announce its Biennale des Antiquaires Tour, September 16 – 24, 2012.

Since 1962, the Biennale des Antiquaires has been a favored destination for collectors of art and lovers of beauty. This year’s edition of the Biennale presents more than 180 exhibitors (nearly double the number in 2010), a mise en scène directed by Karl Lagerfeld, and yet another reason to be in Paris at one of the most beautiful times of the year.

It sounds as if this year’s Biennale is going to be better than ever. We’d love to meet you in Paris.

For regular updates, like ARTS in PARIS on Facebook.

Now, I’m off to plan a visit to Atlanta for my favorite Frenchman. This makes planning a tour of Paris look very easy!

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Save the Date — April 2012

Jane del Monte — Sun, 01 Apr 2012 05:02:04 +0000

Paris

Through 16 April 2012 – ”New Frontier: l’art américain entre au Louvre. Thomas Cole et la naissance de la peinture de paysage en Amérique” (New Frontier: American Art Enters the Louvre. Thomas Cole and the Birth of Landscape Painting in America), Musée du Louvre (Métro Palais Royal), www.louvre.fr

Through 28 April 2012 — “Doisneau, les Halles, ” Hôtel de Ville de Paris, Salon d’accueil (Métro Hôtel de Ville), www.paris.fr

Through 20 May 2012 — “Néon: Who’s Afraid of Red, Yellow and Blue?” La Maison Rouge (Métro Quai de la Rapée or Bastille), www.lamaisonrouge.org

Through 21 May 2012 — “Art Spiegelman,” Centre Pompidou (Métro Rambuteau, Hôtel de Ville or Châtelet), www.centrepompidou.fr

Through 3 June 2012 — “L’Invention du sauvage” (The Invention of the Savage), Musée du Quai Branly (Métro Alma-Marceau), www.quaibranly.fr

Through 17 June 2012 — Helmut Newton, Grand Palais (Métro Champs-Elysées-Clémenceau), www.grandpalais.fr

Through 18 June 2012 — “Matisse, paires et séries” (Matisse, Pairs and Series), Centre Pompidou (Métro Rambuteau, Hôtel de Ville or Châtelet), www.centrepompidou.fr

Through 1 July 2012 — “Berthe Morisot,” Musée Marmottan Monet (Métro La Muette), www.marmottan.com

Through 1 July 2012 — “Degas et le nu” (Degas and the Nude), Musée d’Orsay (Métro Solferino), www.musee-orsay.fr

Through 8 July 2012 — “Les Juifs dans l’Orientalisme” (The Jews in Orientalism), Musée d’Art et d’Histoire du Judaïsme (Métro Rambuteau or Hôtel de Ville), www.mahj.com

Through 16 July 2012 — “Beauté animale - de Dürer à Jeff Koons” (Animal Beauty — from Dürer to Jeff Koons), Grand Palais (Métro Champs-Elysées-Clémenceau), www.grandpalais.fr

Through 5 August 2012 – “J.M. Sert, le Titan à l’oeuvre (1874 – 1945″ (J.M Sert, the Work of the Titan), Petit Palais (Métro Champs Elysées-Clémenceau, www.petitpalais.paris.fr

Through 2 September 2012 — “Les Histoires de Babar” (The Stories of Babar), Musée des Arts Décoratifs (Métro Tuileries or Palais-Royal), www.lesartsdecoratifs.fr

Through 16 September 2012 — “Louis Vuitton Marc Jacobs,” Musée de la Mode et du Textile (Métro Tuileries or Palais-Royal), www.lesartsdecoratifs.fr

25 April – 29 July 2012 — “Eugène Atget, Paris,” Musée Carnavalet (Métro Saint-Paul or Chemin Vert), www.carnavalet.paris.fr

16 May – 25 August 2012 — “Paris, vu par Hollywood” (Paris, Seen by Hollywood), Hôtel de Ville de Paris Salle Saint-Jean (Métro Hôtel de Ville), www.paris.fr

6 June – 16 September 2012 — “Jean-Gabriel Domergue,” Le Musée du Montparnasse, www.museedumontparnasse.net

12 June – 9 September 2012 — “Misia, reine de Paris” (Misia, Queen of Paris), Musée d’Orsay (Métro Solférino), www.musee-orsay.fr

14 – 23 September 2012 — Biennale des Antiquaires, Grand Palais (Métro Champs-Elysées-Clémenceau), www.grandpalais.fr

20 September 2012 – 10 September 2013 — “Van Cleef & Arpels,” Musée des Arts Décoratifs (Métro Tuileries or Palais-Royal) www.lesartsdecoratifs.fr

25 September 2012 – 20 January 2013 — “Impressionisme et la Mode” (Impressionism and Style), Musée d’Orsay (Métro Solférino), www.musee-orsay.fr

Versailles

Through 13 May 2012 – “Les Guerres de Napoléon” (The Wars of Napoleon), Château de Versailles, www.chateauversailles.fr

Lyon

Through 2 July 2012 — “Emile Guimet et l’Egypte antique” (Emile Guimet and Ancient Egypt), Musée des Beaux Arts de Lyon, www.mba-lyon.fr

Giverny

1 April – 15 July 2012 — “Maurice Denis, l’Eternel Printemps” (Maurice Denis, the Eternal Spring), Musée des Impressionnismes Giverny, www.mdig.fr

London

Through 15 July 2012 — “Picasso and Britain,” Tate Britain, www.tate.org.uk

Liverpool

22 June – 28 October 2012 — “Turner Monet Twombly,” Tate Liverpool, www.tate.org.uk/liverpool/exhibitions/TurnerMonetTwombly

Madrid

Through 29 April 2012 — “Odilon Redon, 1840 – 1916,” Fundación Mapfre, www.mapfre.org

Through 20 May 2012 — “Chagall,” Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, www.museothyssen.org

9 October 2012 - 13 January 2013 — “Voyage to the Exotic: Homage to Gauguin,” Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, www.museothyssen.org

Montreal

New York

Through 13 May 2012 — “Renoir, Impressionism and Full-Length Painting,” The Frick Collection, www.frick.org

Through 3 June 2012 — “The Steins Collect: Matisse, Picasso and the Parisian Avant-Garde,” Metropolitan Museum of Art, www.metmuseum.org

4 May – 23 September 2012 — “Edouard Vuillard: A Painter and His Muses, 1890 – 1940,” The Jewish Museum, www.thejewishmuseum.org

Permanent Collection: Wrightsman Galleries for French Decorative Arts, Metropolitan Museum of Art, www.metmuseum.org

Philadelphia

Permanent Collection, Rodin Museum, Benjamin Franklin Parkway at 22nd Street, www.rodinmuseum.org

Washington, D.C.

Through- 6 May 2012 — “Snapshot: Painters and Photography, Bonnard to Vuillard, The Phillips Collection, www.phillipscollection.org

Through 6 May 2012 — “Picasso’s Drawings, 1890-1921: Reinventing Tradition,” National Gallery of Art, West Building, Ground Floor. See www.nga.org

Through 8 July 2012 — “A New Look: Samuel F.B. Morse’s Gallery of the Louvre,” National Gallery of Art, West Building Main Floor. See www.nga.org

Through 29 July 2012 — “Royalists to Romantics, Women Artists from the Louvre, Versailles and Other French National Collections,” National Museum of Women in the Arts, www.nmwa.org

Permanent Collection, “Small French Paintings,” East Building, National Gallery of Art, www.nga.gov

Permanent Collection, “Matisse Cutouts,” National Gallery of Art, East Building Tower. To protect the pigments and color, viewing hours are limited. See www.nga.gov

Raleigh

21 October 2012 – 13 January 2013 — “Visual Feast: Masterpieces of Still Life from the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston,” North Carolina Museum of Art, www.ncartmuseum.org

Atlanta

Through 29 April 2012 — “Picasso to Warhol,” High Museum of Art, www.high.org

Denver

Through 8 July 2012 — “Yves Saint Laurent – The Retrospective,” Denver Art Museum, www.denverartmuseum.org

Fort Worth

Through 17 June 2012 — “The Age of Impressionism: Great French Paintings from the Clark,” Kimbell Art Museum, www.kimbellart.org

San Francisco

Through 17 June 2012 — “The Cult of Beauty: The Victorian Avant-Garde, 1860 – 1900″ Legion of Honor Museum, www.famsf.org/legion

Through 19 August 2012 — “The Fashion World of Jean Paul Gaultier: From the Sidewalk to the Catwalk” de Young Fine Arts Museum, www.deyoungmuseum.org

Los Angeles

Permanent Collection: “Neoclassical, Romantic and Symbolist Sculpture and Decorative Arts,” West Pavilion, Getty Center, www.getty.edu/museum

REMINDER

Jane del Monte — Wed, 28 Mar 2012 00:16:33 +0000

Tomorrow evening at 6:00 p.m., webcast from The Frick Collection, “Renoir and the Democracy of Fashion,” by Aileen Ribeiro of the Courtauld Institute of Art, London. (The link also features all past webcasts associated with this exhibition.) Read about it here.

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Times Reviews LV – MJ Exhibition

Jane del Monte — Tue, 27 Mar 2012 16:39:37 +0000

Here’s a review by Suzy Menkes from the New York Times on the Louis Vuitton – Mark Jacobs Exhibition at Les Arts Décoratifs.

PARIS — Surely that mannequin is meant to be Kate Moss — even if she is on all fours in a cage and with the head of a panther? And those bonbon creations, displayed in pleated paper as in a classic chocolate box, are indisputably handbags. (Read on…)

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Two Books to Consider

Jane del Monte — Mon, 26 Mar 2012 23:16:22 +0000

Two links to books appeared in my mail today that I think will be of interest to you. My wish list gets longer and longer.

The first is Dreaming in French: The Paris Years of Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy, Susan Sontag and Angela Davis, by Alice Kaplan. What these very different women have in common is a year abroad in France as young women.

The second book, Atget, first came out in 2000. MoMA has republished this beautifully written volume by John Szarkowski, rich with photographs, to complement the current exhibition, Eugene Atget: Documents pour Artistes,” which continues through April 9.

Bonne lecture!

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Five Exhibitions of Interest

Jane del Monte — Sun, 25 Mar 2012 01:48:32 +0000

Tomorrow promises another beautiful day, just made for being out and about. If your plans for the weekend include taking in an exhibition, here are a few that feature the work of women artists or of men whose work has empowered women, a fitting way to usher out March and Women’s History Month.

In Paris, see the work of Helmut Newton at the Grand Palais, in “Helmut Newton 1920 – 2004.” Here is what the Washington Post has to say. Then, make your way over to the 16th arrondissement, where the Musée Marmottan Monet presents ”Berthe Morisot,” the first Parisian retrospective dedicated to this Impressionist painter in more than 50 years.

In North America, there are three of note:

In Washington, D.C., the National Museum of Women in the Arts exhibits the work of 35 French woman artists in “Royalists to Romantics, Women Artists from the Louvre, Versailles and Other French National Collections.”

Heading west, two exhibitions pay tribute to designers who changed the way we look and live. Opening tomorrow, the first honors an immortal with “Yves Saint Laurent – The Retrospective” at the Denver Art Museum, while in San Francisco, the De Young Museum features the work of the bad boy of haute couture in “The Fashion World of Jean Paul Gaultier: From the Sidewalk to the Catwalk.”

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Trunks and Valises and Purses! Oh My!

Jane del Monte — Mon, 19 Mar 2012 18:54:08 +0000

Today I’m sharing a couple of links — one, an article from The Telegraph, gives us a delightful account of the serendipitous origin of the Birkin bag; the other is a video preview of an exhibition now going on in Paris.

In the Pink -- A Birkin Bag

To learn how one icon inspired the creation of another, read on.

And here is the video:

The exhibition continues through 16 September 2012 at the Musée des Arts Décoratifs.

The Family Vuitton at Asnières, 1888

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(Photo credits: Bag, Yvette Religioso-Ilagan; Family Vuitton, PD-US)

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French Women Who Made History

Jane del Monte — Thu, 08 Mar 2012 21:26:39 +0000

Today is International Women’s Day (March is Women’s History Month). The day seems to be commemorated more in other countries than in the States, celebrated in many as a national holiday. When I lived in Paris, certain shopkeepers offered discounts to women to mark the day. I think I’ll wear the necklace I bought (at a reduced price, bien sûr) from one of them. Our madeleines come in many forms.

Women have been changing the course of French history since 451, when a prayer marathon promoted by a certain Geneviève de Nanterre saved Paris, diverting Attila and his Huns away from the city. Instead, he attacked Orléans. Geneviève was rewarded with sainthood and became patron saint of Paris. Her tomb is in the Church of Saint-Etienne-du-Mont, one of the most charmingly eccentric churches in all of Paris.

Sainte Geneviève Looks Down on the City of Paris (Sculpture, Paul Landowski; photo, Guimis PD-US)

Orléans was again under siege, this time by the English during the Hundred Years War, when a young girl liberated the city and paved the way to the coronation of Charles VII. Of course I mean Jeanne d’Arc, who became one of the patron saints of France and a political symbol to this day.

Portrait of Jeanne d'Arc, the Maid of Orléans (Artist unknown; PD-US)

Marie-Antoinette changed the course of history by her presence more than her actions. A scapegoat was needed; she filled the role. Just to briefly mention her contribution to the arts, under her patronage two women artists flourished — Elisabeth-Louise Vigée-Lebrun, who chronicled the lives of royals and aristocrats, and Anne Vallayer-Coster. Both managed to keep their heads as the Revolution raged around them. Their works are featured in one of the exhibitions mentioned further down.

Portrait of Marie-Antoinette (Martin von Meytens, 1767; PD-US)

Many women changed the lives of other women. Simone de Beauvoir, of course, but there were others who came before, too numerous to name. Two whom I have mentioned before in these pages changed the lives of women in different ways – Marguerite Durand and Madeleine Vionnet.

A New Translation of The Second Sex, by Sheila Malovany-Chevalier and Constance Borde

Marie Sklodowska-Curie accumulated a series of “firsts,” She was the first person honored with two Nobel prizes – in physics and chemistry, the first female professor at the University of Paris, and, in 2005, the first woman to be entombed, on her own merits, at the Panthéon.

Pierre, Irène and Marie Curie (PD-US)

If, as claimed Coco Chanel, “Elegance is refusal,” Julie Récamier qualified, for not only did she rebuff the advances of Lucien Bonaparte, but she had refused to become lady-in-waiting to the Empress Joséphine, neither of which endeared her to Napoléon. Depicted by numerous artists of the time, she was renowned for her beauty, as well as for her salons where the illuminati of the day gathered. Sometimes just providing a place for the exchange of ideas facilitates the course of history.

Julie Récamier (François Gérard, 1802; PD-US)

Many women are noted for their association with a great man in their field. Camille Claudel was Rodin’s muse, mistress and student, yet today she is believed by many to have surpassed the master. Her work may be seen with his at the Musée Rodin. You decide..

Camille Claudel in her Workshop (PD-US)

Two exhibitions open today involving French women artists, one in Washington, D.C., the other in Paris.

In Washington, the National Museum of Women in the Arts will present the works of 35 women artists made between 1750 and 1850 in an exhibition entitled “Royalists to Romantics, Women Artists from the Louvre, Versailles and Other French National Collections.” The exhibitions runs through July 29. www,nmwa.org

Self Portrait of Elisabeth Vigée Lebrun

And in Paris, on the heels of an exhibition in Madrid, the Musèe Marmottan-Monet will present a retrospective of the work of Berthe Morisot. Morisot was the sister-in-law of Edouard Manet, and it has been generally believed that he was the master, she the student. However, the relationship was reciprocal, and one can see her influence in his work in the form of stylistic characteristics originated by Morisot. The exhibition continues through 1 July. www.marmottan.com

Berthe Morisot with a Bouquet of Violets (Edouard Manet, 1872; PD-US)

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Over the Top?

Jane del Monte — Thu, 01 Mar 2012 17:25:48 +0000

I’ll let you decide.

For those of you who haven’t yet visited the ARTS in PARIS Facebook page, click on the link for a few glimpses of Fashion Week.

I love Christian Louboutin’s comment (with the last slide) that the cabaret dancers were his inspiration.

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