Paris Art Studies – April - June 2017
Paris Special Exhibitions
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Tuesday 18 April, 1:30 – 3 pm: 21
rue La Boétie – Picasso, Matisse, Braque
Visit to the exhibition (23 Feb. - 2 July) at the Musée Maillol with Chris Boïcos
The
exhibition 21 Rue La Boétie retraces
the remarkable story of Paul Rosenberg (1881-1959), possibly the greatest art dealer of the first half of the twentieth century,
and the dealer who befriended, represented and best understood Picasso from 1920
to the Second World War. The exhibition brings together sixty modern masterpieces, some of which have never been shown in
France before: Works by Pablo Picasso, Fernand Léger, Georges
Braque, Henri Matisse and Marie
Laurencin, among others. Most of the artworks on show have a direct
connection to the dealer, having been shown in his galleries in Paris or New
York. Combining history and art, social history and
politics, the exhibition highlights a crucial time in the story of modern art,
of which Paul Rosenberg was an important witness, both as an actor and a victim
when he had to flee France after the German occupation in 1940.
Place: Meet at group entrance of Musée Maillol - 61, rue
de Grenelle 75007
Métro: (Metro Rue du Bac, line
12)
Time: 1:15 for 1:30 pm entry. Please bring
12,50 € for the exhibition ticket and 1,50 € for the headphones (total of 14 €)
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Thursday 20 April, 10 – 11:45 am: Camille
Pissarro – First of the Impressionists
Visit to the exhibition (23 Feb. - 2 July) at the Musée Marmottan with
Chris Boïcos
This is the
first retrospective exhibition of the Impressionist painter Camille
Pissarro (1830-1903) in France in 36 years. 75 major works cover all
periods and aspects of Pissarro’s career. Pissarro was the oldest and most
generous of the Impressionist painters, the only Jewish member of the group and
a life-long anarchist and radical. He mentored both Paul Cézanne – who called
him le premier des impressionistes –
and Paul Gauguin, inspired Georges Seurat and befriended Paul Signac joining
the Neo-Impressionist artists against the wishes of his old companions Monet
and Renoir. His life-long passion was depicting the countryside and the
peasants near his home in the vicinity of Pontoise, though towards the end
of his life he was also celebrated for his famous views of the Paris
boulevards and his early paintings of the London suburbs. This is a
unique opportunity to study the works of one of the greatest members of the
original Impressionist group.
Place: Meet by entrance of Musée Marmottan - 2, rue
Louis Boilly 75016
Métro: La Muette (line 9).
Time: 9:45 for 10 am entry. Please bring 7,50
€ in exact change for the exhibition ticket and 2 € for the headphones (total
of 9,50 €)
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Tuesday 25 April, 10:30am - 12 noon: Vermeer
and the Dutch Genre Painters
Slide
lecture on the exhibition at the Musée du Louvre (until 22 May) with Chris Boïcos.
Organized in partnership with the National
Gallery of Ireland in Dublin and the National Gallery of Art in Washington, the
exhibition will present some of Vermeer’s
greatest works – The Milkmaid, The Lacemaker, Young Woman with Pearls - next to those of his celebrated
contemporaries: Gerrit Dou, Gerard ter Borch,
Jan Steen, Pieter de Hooch, Gabriel Metsu, Caspar Netscher, and Frans van Mieris. Rather than isolating
Vermeer as a unique creative genius of his time, the exhibition brings to light
Vermeer’s membership in a network of painters specializing in the depiction of everyday life while
admiring, inspiring, and vying with each other. Although they were painting in
different cities of the Republic of the Seven United Netherlands, their
pictures show marked similarities of style, subject, composition, and
technique. It is through his knowledge of his fellow painters and in attempt to
surpass them that Vermeer honed in the end the technical skills and artistic
vision we so admire today.
Place: Chris Boïcos apartment. 14, boulevard
Saint-Martin 75010 Paris. 6th floor (building code: 58257)
Métros: Strasbourg-Saint Denis, exit 3: Porte Saint-Martin
(lines 4, 8, 9) or République exit 6: rue René Boulanger (lines 8, 9 - fewer steps).
Time:
10 am for coffee and
tea, lecture begins promptly at 10:30 am.
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Thursday 27 April 12:30pm – 2:15pm: Rodin – Centenary Exhibition
Visit to the exhibition (22 Mar. - 31 July) at the Grand Palais with
Chris Boïcos.
To mark the centenary of his death,
the Musée Rodin and Réunion des musées nationaux are joining forces to
celebrate Auguste Rodin (1840-1917). The exhibition reveals Rodin’s creative
universe, his relationship with his audience and the way in which other
sculptors have appropriated his style. Featuring over 200 of Rodin’s works, it
also includes sculptures and drawings by Bourdelle, Brancusi, Picasso, Matisse,
Giacometti, and more contemporary artists like Joseph Beuys, Baselitz and
Gormley, shedding new light on the influence the most famous French sculptor of
the late 19th century had on modern sculpture through several generations.
Place: Grand Palais, avenue du General Eisenhower
75008. Métro:
Champs-Elysées-Clemenceau (lines 1, 13) Time: 12 :15 for 12 :30 pm start. Please
Bring 16€ for ticket and 2€ for the earphones (18€ total) in exact change.
Meet in front of steps to exhibition.
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Tuesday 2 May, 1 – 2:30 pm: Camille
Pissarro – First of the Impressionists
Visit to the exhibition (23 Feb. - 2 July) at the Musée Marmottan with
Chris Boïcos
This is the
first retrospective exhibition of the Impressionist painter Camille
Pissarro (1830-1903) in France in 36 years. 75 major works cover all
periods and aspects of Pissarro’s career. Pissarro was the oldest and most
generous of the Impressionist painters, the only Jewish member of the group and
a life-long anarchist and radical. He mentored both Paul Cézanne – who called
him le premier des impressionistes –
and Paul Gauguin, inspired Georges Seurat and befriended Paul Signac joining
the Neo-Impressionist artists against the wishes of his old companions Monet
and Renoir. His life-long passion was depicting the countryside and the
peasants near his home in the vicinity of Pontoise, though towards the end
of his life he was also celebrated for his famous views of the Paris
boulevards and his early paintings of the London suburbs. This is a
unique opportunity to study the works of one of the greatest members of the
original Impressionist group.
Place: Meet by entrance of Musée Marmottan - 2, rue
Louis Boilly 75016
Métro: La Muette (line 9).
Time: 12:45 for 1 pm entry. Please bring 7,50
€ in exact change for the exhibition ticket and 2 € for the headphones (total
of 9,50 €)
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Thursday 4 May 10:30pm – 12 noon: Walker Evans
Slide
lecture on the retrospective exhibition at the Pompidou Centre (until 22 May) with Chris Boïcos.
Walker Evans (1903-1975) is one of the greatest
American photographers of the 20th century. His photographs of the Depression years of the 1930s, his
assignments for Fortune magazine in the post-war era and his “documentary“ style influenced generations of photographers
and artists. His attention to everyday details and commonplace urban scenes did
much to define the visual image of 20th-century American culture. Many of his
photographs have become iconic. In this, the greatest retrospective of Evans’s
work ever held in France, the Centre Pompidou exhibits 300 vintage prints
highlighting the photographer’s recurrent concern with roadside buildings,
window displays, signs, typography and faces – Evan’s passionate quest to
identify the fundamental features of American vernacular culture. This is a
wonderful opportunity for discovering or re-appraising the career of one of the
most celebrated photographers of the American heartland at a time when America
is again struggling to redefine its national
identity.
Place: Chris Boïcos apartment. 14, boulevard
Saint-Martin 75010 Paris. 6th floor (building code: 58257)
Métros: Strasbourg-Saint Denis, exit 3: Porte Saint-Martin
(lines 4, 8, 9) or République exit 6: rue René Boulanger (lines 8, 9 - fewer steps).
Time:
10 am for coffee and
tea, lecture begins promptly at 10:30 am.
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Tuesday 9 May 3- 4:30 pm: Le Corbusier’s Villa Savoye in Poissy
A
visit to an iconic masterpiece of modern architecture with Chris Boïcos.
Beautifully
restored and refurbished in the last few years, this is probably the most
famous pre-war residence built by France’s most notorious 20th
century architect and theoretician of modern architecture, Charles Edouard
Jeanneret, a.k.a. Le Corbusier
(1887-1965). The villa Savoye is a jewel
of the International modern style of the 1920’s and 30’s that looks a
little like a graceful spaceship on stilts having landed on a wide green lawn
in the Paris suburbs. Remarkable
for its open plan spaces, terraces, roof gardens, and functional bedrooms,
kitchens and bathrooms, it also affords the rare sensation of walking through a
series of spaces that feel like a transparent cubist sculpture.
Place: Meet at
the exit of the RER station Poissy
on The RER A line about 30 minutes from Châtelet-les Halles, Opéra or Etoile.
Métro: Poissy RER A
station
Time: Meet 2:30 pm, 15 mn walk to the villa. Please bring 8 € in exact change for the museum ticket.
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Thursday 11 May 10:30 am – 12 noon:
Beyond the
Stars. The Mystical Landscape from Monet to Kandinsky
Slide
lecture on the exhibition at the Musée d’Orsay (until 25 June) with Chris Boïcos.
In the late 19th century many artists felt
the need to seek a cosmic order beyond physical appearances and Realism in art,
to approach the mysteries of existence and experiment with the suppression of
the self in a mystical union with the cosmos… It was this mystical quest above
all else that inspired the Symbolist generation and also many of the major
artists of the beginning of the 20th century like Kandinsky and Mondrian. The
current exhibition, organized in partnership with the Art Gallery of Ontario,
Toronto, explores Post-Impressionist,
Symbolist and Expressionist landscape as it emerged in the art of Paul Gauguin, Maurice Denis, Ferdinand Hodler,
Vincent Van Gogh, Edvard Munch, Vassily Kandinsky, Eugene Jansson, Georgia O'Keeffe, Emily Carr and many more. Two major masterpieces, Gauguin’s Vision after the Sermon from Edinburgh and Van Gogh’s Sower from
Amsterdam are included in this remarkable show.
Place: Chris Boïcos apartment. 14, boulevard
Saint-Martin 75010 Paris. 6th floor (building code: 58257)
Métros: Strasbourg-Saint Denis, exit 3: Porte Saint-Martin
(lines 4, 8, 9) or République exit 6: rue René Boulanger (lines 8, 9 - fewer steps).
Time:
10 am for coffee and
tea, lecture begins promptly at 10:30 am.
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Monday 15 May, 11:30 am – 1 pm: Belleville - Menilmontant
A
Paris city walk with Chris Boïcos.
This
legendary working class neighborhood of eastern Paris, birthplace of Edith
Piaf, is seldom visited by tourists but much appreciated by Parisians young and
old. Despite post-war
modernisation much of the flavour of the early 20th century
district, its hilltop views, tiny plaster- front houses, alleys, gardens,
cafés, union clubs remain intact where they have been defended by vigorous
neighborhood associations. A fascinating melting pot of old and new Paris, home
to all immigration waves since the 19th century and now home to a
young generation of Paris artists, musicians, anarchists and “bobos”.
Place: Meet in front of the
church of Saint-Jean-Baptiste de Belleville opposite Métro Jourdain 75019.
Métro: Jourdain (line 11).
Time:
11:15 for 11:30 am start.
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Monday 22 May, 11:30 am – 1 pm: Montmarte!
A
Paris city walk with Chris Boïcos.
Home to the
Paris working classes, thieves, prostitutes, poets and artists since the early
19th century, Montmartre is one of the best preserved and liveliest of Paris
"villages". We will explore
its lower reaches as yet untouched by the tourist hordes, see typical
tenements, studios and villas, homes to Renoir, Seurat, Van Gogh, Picasso and
more, continuing to the top of the hill past the smart avenue Junot and ending
in front of fromage blanc, the now
iconic Paris landmark, the Sacré Coeur.
Place: Meet in front of the Moulin Rouge Music Hall on place Blanche 75018.
Métro: Blanche (line 2).
Time: 11:15 for 11:30 am start.
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Tuesday 23 May, 12 noon – 1:30 pm: 21
rue La Boétie – Picasso, Matisse, Braque
Visit to the exhibition (23 Feb. - 2 July) at the Musée Maillol with Chris Boïcos
The
exhibition 21 Rue La Boétie retraces
the remarkable story of Paul Rosenberg (1881-1959), possibly the greatest art dealer of the first half of the twentieth century,
and the dealer who befriended, represented and best understood Picasso from 1920
to the Second World War. The exhibition brings together sixty modern masterpieces, some of which have never been shown in
France before: Works by Pablo Picasso, Fernand Léger, Georges
Braque, Henri Matisse and Marie
Laurencin, among others. Most of the artworks on show have a direct
connection to the dealer, having been shown in his galleries in Paris or New
York. Combining history and art, social history and
politics, the exhibition highlights a crucial time in the story of modern art,
of which Paul Rosenberg was an important witness, both as an actor and a victim
when he had to flee France after the German occupation in 1940.
Place: Meet at group entrance of Musée Maillol - 61, rue
de Grenelle 75007
Métro: (Metro Rue du Bac, line
12)
Time: 11:45 for 12 noon entry. Please bring
12,50 € for the exhibition ticket and 1,50 € for the headphones (total of 14 €)
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Wednesday 31 May 11:15 am - 12:45 pm: Musée Nissim de Camondo
A visit
to the museum with decorative arts historian and museum curator Rebecca Tilles*
The house is a
small version of the Petit Trianon built at the beginning of the century in
front of the fashionable park Monceau to house the Moise de Camondo collection of 18th century French furniture,
tapestry, objets d'art, porcelain,
paintings and prints, one of the finest
private collections of its kind in Europe. This intimate museum is a
wonderful evocation not only of the 18th century, but also of the tastes of the
Belle Epoque industrialists and
bankers. Moise and his cousin Isaac, who collected Impressionist art, were
among the greatest collectors of their era. The Camondo family was sadly wiped
out in the Holocaust during the Second War.
Place: Courtyard of museum, 63 rue de
Monceau 75008.
Métros: Villiers (lines) or Monceau (line 2)
Time:
Meet 11 for 11:15 am start. Please bring 11 € in exact change for the museum
ticket.
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Thursday 8 June 11:30 am – 1 pm: Balenciaga, the « Œuvre au Noir »
A visit
to the exhibition (until 16 July) with couturier and
costume historian Dimitri Papalexis**
This remarkable exhibition on the œuvre
of the great Paris couturier of the
1950s, the Spaniard, Cristóbal Balenciaga (1895-1972), is part of a «Spanish season» organized outside its
walls by the Paris fashion museum, the Palais Galliera. Balenciaga’s mostly black creations take
over the space of the Bourdelle sculpture museum and are juxtaposed to the
white plasters throughout, in a highly original presentation. All of Balenciaga’s
iconic creations of the post-war era, inspired by Spanish folklore and the
prevalence of black in Spanish history – the lignes tonneau (1947), ballon
(1950), semi-ajustée (1951), tunique (1955), and the celebrated robe-sac
(1957) are here presented: One hundred superb models from the collections of
the Palais Galliera and the archives of the Maison
Balenciaga by the couturier, who Christian Dior called the “master of us
all.”
Place: Meet in lobby of Musée Bourdelle, Rue Antoine Bourdelle, 75015.
Métros: Falguière (line 12) and Montparnasse-Bienvenüe (lines
4,6,12,13)
Time:
11:15 for 11:30 start. Please bring 7 € in exact change for the museum
ticket.
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Course
Fee: 200 € for 11 sessions, 195 €
for 10 sessions, 180 € for 9 sessions, 160 € for 8 sessions, 140 € for 7
sessions or 25 € per session.
Museum
fees are additional to course fees.
You
can sign up for individual sessions or a series by sending an email to
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or
by calling Chris Boïcos on +33 (0) 686 58 98 09 and by sending a
check made out to “Chris Boïcos” to Chris Boïcos, 14 boulevard Saint-Martin
75010 Paris. Museum fees are additional to course fees.
Please register for classes in advance to
ensure that group visits are not full.
*Rebecca Tilles is currently a PhD candidate in Art History at the University of
Sussex, UK. For the past 8 years, Rebecca worked as a curatorial research
associate in decorative arts and sculpture in the Art of Europe Department at
the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
and assisted with the exhibitions "Symbols of Power: Napoleon and the Art
of the Empire Style, 1800-1815" (2007) and "Splendor and Elegance:
European Decorative Arts and Drawings from the Horace Wood Brock
Collection" (2009). She holds a BA in French and French Cultural Studies
from Wellesley College and an MA in European Decorative Arts from The Bard Graduate Center in New York.
**Dimitri Papalexis studied in the finest fashion
school in Greece the PAN-SIK School in Athens in 1986-87 and at the Maragoni
School in Milan (1988). He also studied embroidery at the greatest French
embroidery school, Lesage in 1998. He has taught pattern making, draping and embroidery at the PAN-SIK School in
Athens and has been creating dresses for Fashion houses, television programs in
Greece and an international private clientele in Paris, Monaco and the U.S.A.
since 1987. He has worked among
others for Mariana Hardwick (Australia), Christophe Rouxel (Paris), Leonard and
Osimar Versolato (Paris), Paul KA (Paris) Jean-Louis Scherrer (Paris), Irène
Van Ryb (Paris) ,123 Créateur (Paris), Eva Kayan (Marseille) and Un Jour
Ailleurs (Paris). His range of creation includes haute-couture embroideries,
suits, cocktail and wedding dresses.
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Paris Art Studies at the home of Chris
Boïcos
14, boulevard Saint-Martin. 6th floor
(building code: 58257)
Métros: Strasbourg-Saint Denis, or République
exit 6: boulevard
Saint-Martin (lines 8, 9 - fewer steps)
Paris Art Studies telephone: + 33 (0) 686
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