The Marmottan Museum, known for its large collection of Monet paintings, has just opened a new exhibition containing around 100 works, allowing you to (re)discover the neo-romantic movement in 20th century art that considered modernist abstractionism to have run its course and offered a return to the figurative.

It’s an exhibition at the Druet Gallery in Paris in 1926 that can be considered the start of the neo-romantic era (also called neo-manneristic or neo-humanist), showing works from young painter who posited that abstract art had run out of ideas and that new propositions were necessary in a post-Picasso. world

The exhibition at Marmottan gives a global view of the neo-romantic art movement with details of each painter as well as their influences, which included theatre, opera, ballet and Italy, as well as their links with high-profile personalities including Christian Dior, Elsa Schiaparelli and Helena Rubinstein.

An audioguide (in French or English – 4€) will accompany you through the exhibition, giving extra details on certain paintings.

And to explore the subject further (or just as a souvenir), a catalogue has just been published by Flammarion (256 pages, around 40€), available here at your local amazon.

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The exhibition The Neo-Romantics 1926-1972 (Néo-Romantiques, Un moment oublié de l’art moderne 1926-1972) is at the Marmottan Museum (here) until 18th June 2023

Open every day except Mondays from 10am-6pm (9pm Thursdays)

Admission: 14€ / 9€ / free for under 7s

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