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Plan and Guide Musée De L’Orangerie Water Lilies by Claude Monet PlaN AND GUidE MUSÉE DE L’ORANGERIE WATER LILIES WATER LILIES BY CLAUDE MONET level BY CLAUDE MONET The Two Willows 0 Clear Morning with Willows 3 Morning with “Weeping Willows” Reflections of Trees Green Reflections 2 Morning Clouds Information and Services The vestibule was designed by light in his garden. The eight Sunset Monet to create a space between panels presented in these www.musee-orangerie.fr the hustle and bustle of the city two rooms evoke the passing and his works. of the hours from sunrise 1 Rooms cleared at 5.45 pm By donating the Water Lilies to in the east to sunset in the west. France, after the First World War, With no horizon to orient the Groups prior booking obligatory Monet was offering Parisians viewer, the elements – water, air, Audioguide a haven of peace, inviting them sky, earth – seem to merge to contemplate an image of nature in a composition without To level -1 Family’s version evoking infinity. In 1909, when perspective where the flowers Bookshop-Boutique Audioguide Café ewandowski first considering this project, create a rhythm. Monet thus L he wrote: “Nerves strained by conveys “the illusion To level -2 work would relax in its presence, of an endless whole, of water The Jean Walter Bookshop-boutique Café 0 -1-2 & Paul Guillaume Collection 9 am - 5.45 pm 9.30 am - 5.30 pm following the restful example without horizon and without of its stagnant waters, and for shore”. T T rangerie) / Hervé O Auditorium 9 am - 5.45 pm he who would live in it, this room Presented to the public in 1927, < Ticket desk . Printing: Fabrègue, September 2016. would offer a refuge for peaceful a few months after the artist’s < Audioguide OO Activities meditation in the midst death, the Water Lilies attracted < Lift PM E Workshops for adults and children, tours, stories -GP (musée de l’ of a flowering aquarium.” little attention, the critics at that N M A true testament to Monet’s time being much more interested R Reduced mobility Wheelchairs, walking sticks, © artistic talent, these Grandes in the innovations of the avant- pushchairs and baby carriers available ommunication C Décorations are the culmination garde. After the Second World Magnetic loop of a lifetime’s work. War, influenced by the proponents < Cloakroom ebrun, T L Site with several points He continued to work on them of lyrical abstraction, who < Information Le Jeune apprenti yrille from 1914 until his death in 1926, detected in the Water Lilies C T T taking inspiration from his “water the origins of abstract art, garden” at Giverny. From 1886, interest in his work revived, < Museum entrance / exit Monet had focused on capturing bringing increasing numbers the changing qualities of natural of visitors to the Orangerie. Amedeo Modigliani, Graphism design: Grand Mécène ThE , TUTElarY FigURES: RENOIR / CÉZANNE ThE JEAN WALTER 9 10 The Paul Guillaume Collection reflects the temperament & PAUL GUILLAUME of this sophisticated, cultured and enquiring collector. He was open COLLECTION level level JEAN WaltER & to both modern and traditional works, and was always looking -GP to seek out new talents like Modigliani and Soutine, without -1 -2 N Cézanne BOOKSHOP- PAUL GUillaUME M R neglecting established painters like Renoir and Cézanne, BOUtiQUE longs cheveux aux Baigneuse COLLECTION recognising their talent and feeling for innovation enoir, café R 11 RENOIR-CÉZANNE-MODIGLIANI- THE MODERN PrimitiVES: Matisse / Picasso Auguste To ground floor 0 MATISSE-PICASSO-DERAIN- vers 1885-1896 © ROUssEAU / MODIGLIANI / LaURENCIN Claude Monet’s Water Lilies SOUTINE The Douanier Rousseau, Amedeo Modigliani and Marie Laurencin Exit were part of the Modern Primitive movement that rejected the Born into a modest family, inherited conventions of Classicism in order to develop new forms Lift Paul Guillaume started his of representation. The Douanier Rousseau developed a highly Modigliani / Derain / Laurencin 12 working life in a garage. personal approach as we can see in La Noce [The Wedding Party]. , 1923 To level -2 In 1911, he displayed some In this composition with its vertical lines, the figures grouped The Jean Walter African statuettes in the window around the bride look like cut-out motifs superimposed Renoir 8 & Paul Guillaume Collection of the garage and thus attracted on a background of exotic plants. the attention of the poet History of the Orangerie Arlequin et Pierrot Guillaume apollinaire MODERN classicism: MATIssE / PICassO erain, Rousseau D who became his mentor. 2013AGP, D Paul Guillaume’s relationship with Henri Matisse was always André © A somewhat distant. However this did not stop him from buying 13 Within a year he opened his first 25 of Matisse’s paintings. Domenica, Guillaume’s wife, only kept Utrillo / Soutine gallery and began a new career , 10 of them, from the period in Nice (1917-1929). Painted after -2 0 Paul Guillaume Room 6 as an art dealer and collector. his experimental Fauve period (1905-1908), L’Odalisque à la culotte Exit Paul Guillaume quickly became grise [Odalisque in Grey Trousers] illustrates how Matisse developed Replica Interiors 14 7 a respected figure in the artistic a very personal idiom through sophisticated constructions and literary circles of the 1920s and interplay of colour. and saw himself as both a witness Derain’s Golden Age 0 to and patron of this illustrious Paul Guillaume, Novo Pilota THE RETURN TO OrdER: PICassO / DERAIN Sortie group. In 1923, Paul Guillaume became André Derain’s main dealer and gave To level 0 15 -GP 5 N The Water Lilies He was director of the Les Arts M his unfailing support to this artist whose reputation was at its height R Exit à Paris magazine, provided in the 1920s and 30s. The 28 paintings in the Musée de l’Orangerie support for Picasso, Soutine, Amedeo Modigliani, © 1915 illustrate the period known as the “return to order”, characterised Auditorium T derain and Marie Laurencin by the predominance of line over colour, in the Classic tradition, with a distinct preference for the nude and still life. Here again T T and specialised in African arts, Temporary which, at that time, were a source we find Paul Guillaume’s ability to reconcile modernity and tradition. exhibition 16 of inspiration for avant-garde The “Fossés painters. He died in 1934 before TUrmOIL AND BUrstiNG EXUBEraNCE: UTRILLO / SOUTINE jaunes” fulfilling his ambition to create The Orangerie has the largest collection of Chaim Soutine’s paintings fortifications 18 a museum of modern art. , vers 1923 in Europe, and the final section in the museum presents the powerful, His wife completed and modified tormented works of both Soutine and Maurice Utrillo. These paintings Classroom the collection, reorganising VillageLe reflect the eclecticism of Paul Guillaume who saw no conflict it around works representing between the gentle beauty of a Renoir, and the violence of a Soutine. Loundge of reading T modern classicism and children AGP, 2013AGP, Early in his career as an art dealer, Guillaume supported Maurice D 17 Impressionism, before ceding Soutine, haïm Utrillo, the son of Suzanne Valadon. Views of Paris and Montmartre C it to the State in 1959. © A were the preferred subjects of this tormented, solitary painter..
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