A plunge into the world of James McNeill Whistler... This is what the Musée d'Orsay is offering with theexhibition James McNeill Whistler (1834 -1903), Masterpieces from the Frick Collection, New York, focusing on works by the American artist, from February 8 to May 8, 2022. An exhibition that, as its name suggests, invites you to discover part of the Frick Collection, originally opened to visitors in 1935 in the New York mansion of industrial magnate and major collector Henry Clay Frick.
Born in Massachusetts in 1834, James Abbott McNeill Whistler, whose real name was Whistler, had a special connection with Paris and France, where he began his career between 1855 and 1859. He then moved to London, but maintained a close link with the Parisian art scene, exhibiting alongside the "refusés" in 1863 and becoming one of the leading artists of the new Symbolist generation in 1890. In 1891, the French state purchased his masterpiece Arrangement en gris et noir: portrait of the artist's mother. In the same year, collector Henry Clay Frick bought eighteen works by the artist, making Whistler the best-represented painter in his collection.
Works by the artist left New York for the first time in over a century, as the institution entered a phase of renovation. These include L'Océan, painted by the artist during a trip to Chile, as well as three pastels and twelve prints with Venetian subjects, and three large portraits from his "symphonies in white" and "arrangements in black": the portrait of Mrs. Frederick Leyland, the portrait of Rosa Corder, and that of Robert de Montesquiou-Fezensac. On view from February 2022.
Dates and Opening Time
From February 8th, 2022 to May 8th, 2022
Location
Musée d'Orsay
62 rue de Lille
75007 Paris 7
Prices
Tarif réduit: €13
Plein tarif: €16
Official website
www.musee-orsay.fr
More information
Open Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays from 9.30am to 6pm, Thursdays until 9.45pm. Closed on Mondays.
