From Fauvism to Surrealism. Masterpieces from the Musée d’Art Moderne de Paris
02.11.2022 - 05.22.2022
The Musée d’Art Moderne de Paris (MAM) and the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao present a selection of nearly seventy masterpieces by significant artists that illustrates the history of the MAM collection while offering an overview of the avant-garde artistic movements born in Paris during the first decades of the twentieth century.
The MAM was built on the occasion of the historic Exposition Internationale (1937) to be a home to the collections of modern art of the city of Paris, which expanded rapidly in the following years thanks to major acquisitions of works by important artists of the Parisian art scene. However, MAM was only formalized as a museum in 1961. Patrons were an integral source of support for this project, especially Dr. Maurice Girardin, whose museum bequest of 1953 became the nucleus for the collection of modern masters, including the Fauves, Cubists, and representatives of the School of Paris.
Curators: Fabrice Hergott, Director, Musée d’Art Moderne de Paris, Hélène Leroy, Curator, Musée d’Art Moderne de Paris, and Geaninne Gutiérrez-Guimarães, Curator, Guggenheim Museum Bilbao
Amedeo MODIGLIANI
Woman with Blue Eyes (Femme aux yeux bleus), circa 1918
Oil on canvas
81 x 54 cm
Inv. : AMVP 1681
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