MOST BEAUTIFUL

EXHIBITIONS IN PARIS IN 2021

 Portrait of Mademoiselle Irène Cahen by Renoir.

MAD - Musée Nissim de Camondo

Pierre-Auguste Renoir via Wikimedia Commons

MAD - MUSÉE NISSIM DE CAMONDO

Comte de Camondo had a town palace built, whose architectural model is the Petit Trianon of Versailles. The museum houses a magnificent collection of decorative French art from the second half of the 18th century, Aubusson tapestries, paintings by Élisabeth Vigée-Lebrun, objects belonging to Marie-Antoinette, a collection of Sèvres porcelain and furniture by cabinetmakers Riesener and Oeben. The museum's wonderful rooms were also used for scenes in the Netflix hit Lupin. They also house the Renoir Portrait of Mademoiselle Irène Cahen by Renoir.

MAD - Musée Nissim de Camondo

63 Rue de Monceau

75008 Paris

www.madparis.fr

MUSEE DE L'ORANGERIE

MAGRITTE/RENOIR

Surrealism in full sunlight

19 May to 19 July 2021

The exhibition shows over 60 paintings and 40 drawings by Magritte. It begins with works from the 1930s, in which Magritte shows his fears of the outbreak of war. Magritte's paintings when he was in his Renoir period are shown alongside some of Renoir's masterpieces.

MUSEE DE L'ORANGERIE

23 Rue de Sévigné

75003 Paris

www.musee-orangerie.fr

FONDATION AZZEDINE ALAIA

AZZEDINE ALAÏA, PETER LINDBERGH

SOUS LA DIRECTION DE BENJAMIN LINDBERGH ET OLIVIER SAILLARD

20 May 2021 to 02.January 2022

Peter Lindbergh and Azzedine Alaïa shared many things: a love of the colour black and a deep love of the female aesthetic. Both artists met in 1979, and today the Azzedine Alaïa Foundation highlights their greatest photographic projects.

FONDATION AZZEDINE ALAIA

18 Rue de la Verrerie

75004 Paris

www.fondationazzedinealaia.org

MUSÉE DES ARTS DÉCORATIFS

MUGLER - COUTURISSME

30 September 2021 to 24 April 2022

The Musée des Arts Décoratifs in Paris presents the exhibition "Thierry Mugler, Couturissime". This major exhibition traces the work of the designer with the unique imagination who revolutionised fashion, haute couture and perfume. This Paris stop marks the return of the visionary artist, photographer, perfume inventor and director to the city where he enjoyed his greatest successes.

On display are ready-to-wear and haute couture silhouettes and accessories, stage costumes, photographs, videos and previously unseen archives from 1973 to 2014.

MUSÉE DES ARTS DÉCORATIFS

107 Rue de Rivoli, 75001 Paris

www.madparis.fr

MUSEE CARNAVALET

HENRI CARTIER-BRESSON

Revoir Paris

15 June to 31 Octobre 2021

For its first exhibition after reopening, the Museum Carnavalet - History of Paris is collaborating with the Henri Cartier-Bresson Foundation to show the importance of Paris in the life and work of Henri Cartier-Bresson, one of the greatest French photographers of the 20th century.

MUSEE CARNAVALET

23 Rue de Sévigné

75003 Paris

www.carnavalet.paris.fr

PALAIS GALLIERA

PALAIS GALLIERA

Jean-Pierre Dalbéra via Wikimedia Commons

PALAIS GALLIERA

A HISTORY OF FASHION. COLLECTING & EXHIBITING AT THE PALAIS GALLIERA

02. October to  26. June 2022

Following its reopening in 2020, the Palais Galliera will celebrate a new historic step in autumn 2021 with the opening of the collection highlight in the Gabrielle Chanel Galleries. From masterpiece to masterpiece, from the 18th century robe volante to the creations of Comme des Garçons, from the wardrobe of the Comtesse Greffulhe to the avant-garde designs of Rick Owens, the visitor will be immersed in a history of fashion from the 18th century and will be illustrated by the most beautiful pieces from the Palais Galliera - the Fashion Museum of the City of Paris. At the same time, the visitor is introduced to the history of the collection.

PALAIS GALLIERA

10 Avenue Pierre 1er de Serbie

75116 Paris

www.palaisgalliera.paris.fr

MUSEÉ YVES SAINT LAURENT

YVES SAINT LAURENT

"Behind the Scenes of Haute Couture in Lyon".

17 June to 5 December 2021

The extraordinarily talented Yves Saint Laurent and his world are presented amidst sublime fabrics from Lyon's most important houses. Delicate muslin fabrics, shimmering weaves and exquisite velvets reveal themselves in an exhibition that illuminates a close and enduring creative collaboration that lasted over forty years. Through thirty haute couture ensembles on display alongside numerous documents, the exhibition explores the couturier's creative process in an original way.

MUSEÉ YVES SAINT LAURENT

 5 Avenue Marceau

75116 Paris

www.museeyslparis.com

Water Lilies

Claude Monet via Wikimedia Commons

MUSEÉ MARMOTTAN MONET

The Musée Marmottan Monet (also Musée Marmottan) is an art museum in the 16th arrondissement of Paris. The museum, which belongs to the Académie des beaux-arts, is the result of various private collections. It is always worth a visit especially if you want to enjoy the largest collection of works by the painter Claude Monet.

MUSEÉ MARMOTTAN MONET

2 Rue Louis Boilly

75016 Paris

www.marmottan.fr

LA VILETTE

©Wilhelm Kruse



LA VILLETTE

NAPOLÉON

L'exposition

28 May to 19 December

As admired as he was controversial, Napoleon Bonaparte was a complex personality whose life shone between heroism and tragedy, victory and defeat. To mark the bicentenary of his death, the Réunion des musées nationaux - Grand Palais and La Villette are staging a spectacular exhibition that paints a fair and uncompromising portrait of a fascinating figure who shaped contemporary France. The exceptional collaboration between the Louvre, the Châteaux of Versailles, Fontainebleau and Malmaison, the Musée de l'Armée, the Mobilier National and the Fondation Napoléon has made it possible to bring together more than 150 original pieces, gathered here for the first time.

LA VILLETTE

211 Avenue Jean Jaurès

75019 Paris

www.lavillette.com