Never heard of the artist Sam Szafran? You are not alone. Szafran (birth name: Berger) the subject of the exhibition “Sam Szafran: Obsessions of a Painter” at the Musée de l’Orangerie, was born in Paris in 1934, not an auspicious … Read More
David Hockney seems omnipresent in Paris lately, but that can only be a good thing — not only do his cheerful, colorful paintings brighten our Covid-darkened days, but it is also heartening to see an artist of his age (he … Read More
An illuminating exhibition at the Musée de l’Orangerie, “Chaïm Soutine/Willem de Kooning: Paint Made Flesh,” takes us on a trip from the strange, twisted figures and landscapes of Chaīm Soutine to the blowsy, almost frightening figures of women by Willem … Read More
The exhibition “Franz Marc/August Macke: The Aventure of the Blue Rider” at the Musée de l’Orangerie tells the tale of the friendship of two talented young artists, which ended in tragedy when both lost their lives while fighting in World … Read More
The first time I saw Paula Rego’s storytelling paintings at the Tate Britain in London, I was fascinated by their almost perverse weirdness. Finally, a Paris museum, the Musée de l’Orangerie, has turned its attention to this unique artist with … Read More
The exhibition “The Water Lilies: American Abstract Painting and the Last Monet” at the Musée de l’Orangerie is an uplifting look at the influence of Monet’s late work – which progressively veered toward pure abstraction – on American abstract painting. … Read More
Is Grant Wood’s “American Gothic” (1930) the American “Mona Lisa”? This iconic painting is certainly just as recognizable to people around the world, although it may not have the latter’s gravitas. “American Gothic,” with its dour farm couple and their … Read More
They were known as the elephant and the dove. Diego Rivera was larger than life, expansive, a fervent nationalist, communist and revolutionary, and a painter of giant frescoes on grandiose themes like the birth of Mexico and national identity. Frida … Read More
Painting Through the Eyes of Others “Femmes à cheval à Robinson” (1887). © D.R. Emile Bernard (1868-1941) is a painter whose work I have occasionally had an intriguing glimpse of in various group exhibitions, but retrospectives of his work seem … Read More
The Method in Soutine’s Expressionist Madness Soutine’s “Le Village” (1923). © ADAGP, Paris 2012 © RMN (Musée de l’Orangerie)/Hervé Lewandowski Some of the paintings by Chaïm Soutine (1893-1943) on show at Paris’s Musée de l’Orangerie look as if they were … Read More
