There are a couple of interesting new art exhibits going on in Paris:
1. At the Musee d’Orsay there is a special exhibition of about 300 objects of Art Nouveau, which was a popular style in the early 1900’s, about 100 years ago. This collection was recently given to the museum by the wife and daughter of the deceased Antonin Rispal, who died in 2003. Rispal started collecting these objects over the years, even when they were not very popular. This collection is worth a lot of money, equal to about 10 years worth of acquisition funds available to the museum, and it will increase the number of objects owned by about 15%. After this special showing the pieces will be displayed in different areas throughout the museum. Included in the collection are pieces of furniture, vases, sculptures, ceramics, silver and gold works, crystal, etc.
The exhibit runs from 21 November until 28 January.
2. From 22 November until 18 May at the Rodin Museum in Paris there will be an exhibition of erotic drawings by Rodin. The exhibition is entitled “Rodin. The figures of Eros. Drawings and watercolors 1890-1917”.
Rodin, of course, is well known as the father of modern sculpture, but not many are aware of his drawings. He made several thousand drawings of women, mostly nudes, in his later years. From the couple of photos of drawings I saw, some of this is pretty racy stuff.
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