By no means comprehensive, just a few things that may be of interest.
Paris
Through 19 March 2012 — “Fantin-Latour, Manet, Cezanne: Hommage à Delacroix” (Fantin-Latour-Manet, Cezanne: Homage to Delacroixà, Musée Eugène Delacroix (Métro St-Germain-des-Prés or Mabillon), www.musee-delacroix.fr
Through 16 April 2012, “New Frontier: l’ art américain entre au Louvre. Thomas Cole et la naissaince 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 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 3 June 2012 – “L’Invention du sauvage” (The Invention of the Savage), Musée du Quai Branly (Métro Alma-Marceau), www.quaibranly.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 28 April 2012 — “Doisneau, les Halles, ” Hôtel de Ville de Paris, Salon d’accueil (Métro Hôtel de Ville), www.paris.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 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
8 March – 1 July 2012 — “Berthe Morisot,” Musée Marmottan Monet (Métro La Muette), www.marmottan.com
8 March – 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
9 March – 16 September 2012 — “Louis Vuitton Marc Jacobs,” Musée de la Mode et du Textile (Métro Tuileries or Palais-Royal), www.lesartsdecoratifs.fr
13 March – 1 July 2012, “Degas et le nu” (Degas and the Nude), Musée d’Orsay, Métro Solferino, www.musee-orsay.fr
21 March – 21 May 2012 — “Art Spiegelman,” Centre Pompidou (Métro Rambuteau, Hôtel de Ville or Châtelet), www.centrepompidou.fr
21 March – 16 July 2012 — “Beauté animale – de Dürer à Jeff Koons” (Animal Beauty — from Dürer to Jeff Koons), Grand Palais (Métro Champs-Elyséée-Clémenceau), www.rmn.fr
23 March – 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
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
12 June – 9 September 2012 — “Misia, reine de Paris” (Misia, Queen of Paris), Musée d’Orsay (Métro Solférino), www.musee-orsay.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
30 March – 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
Maastricht
16 – 25 March, 2012 – TEFAF Maastricht, Maastricht Exhibition and Congress Center, www.tefaf.com
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
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 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
Richmond
Through 18 March 2012 — “The Jewels of Jean Schlumberger,” Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, 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
Through 29 April 2012 — “Picasso to Warhol,” High Museum of Art, www.high.org
Denver
25 March – 8 July 2012 — “Yves Saint Laurent – The Retrospective,” Denver Art Museum, www.denverartmuseum.org
Fort Worth
11 March – 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
24 March – 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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Tags: Art in France, Fremch art, Impressionists, painting, photography, Sculpture
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