Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris

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Rooted in a history of Paris, it was first articulated in the creation of the museum itself, designed in the framework of the International Exhibition of Arts and Technology from 1937 to actually be opened in 1961 with particular , a core of works from the collections "modern " Petit Palais enriched through the generosity of collectors Emanuele Sarmiento, Matilda Amos, Ambrose Vollard.

The 1937 exhibition was an opportunity for acquisitions particularly notable among which we mention: The Dance by Matisse, Nude in the bath and Bonnard's Garden, The Cardiff team of Robert Delaunay , The River Derain, Leger Les Disques, the stopover Lhote, The Bluebird Metzinger, four portraits of artist Vuillard, furniture by Pierre Chareau, Andre Arbus, Jacques Emile Ruhlmann, etc.., which are still among the leaders -d 'oeuvre of the museum, not to mention the great decorations of Robert and Sonia Delaunay, Albert Gleizes and Jacques Villon , acquired in the mainstream (gift of the new realities of the Show in 1939). The contribution of the legacy Girardin (in 1953) will be decisive and then determine the Parisian authorities to overcome the chair rail became too narrow for the Petit Palais open a clean place in the Palais de Tokyo.

represented artists

Absalon      Valerio Adami      Giovanni Anselmo      Polly Apfelbaum      Arman      John M. Armleder      Art & Language      Martin Barré      Hans Bellmer      Jean-Pierre Bertrand      Joseph Beuys      Christian Boltanski      Pierre Bonnard      Herbert Brandl      Georges Braque      Brassaï      Victor Brauner      Marcel Broodthaers      Alain Bublex      Pierre Buraglio      Daniel Buren      Claude Cahun      César      Alan Charlton      Jean Crotti      Alain Declercq      Jean Degottex      Robert Delaunay      André Dérain      Daniel Dezeuze      Erik Dietman      Kees van Dongen      Marcel Duchamp      Raoul Dufy      Olafur Eliasson      Max Ernst      Erró      Luciano Fabro      Jean Fautrier      Robert Filliou      Fischli & Weiss      Lucio Fontana      Bernard Frize      Gérard Fromanger      Sam Gilliam      Albert Gleizes      Hermann Glöckner      Natalia Goncharova      Loris Greaud      Juan Gris      Marcel Gromaire      Raymond Hains      Simon Hantaï      Raoul Hausmann      Fabrice Hybert

Koo Jeong-A      Peter Klasen      Henri Laurens      Janette Laverriere      Bertrand Lavier      Jean-Jaques Lebel      Bart van der Leck      Fernand Léger      Andre Lhote      Jacques Lipchitz      Aristide Maillol      Didier Marcel      Henri Matisse      Steve McQueen      Mario Merz      Annette Messager      Lisette Model      Amedeo Modigliani      Jacques Monory      Olivier Mosset      Deimantas Narkevicius      Melik Ohanian      Philippe Parreno      Julius Pinkas Pascin      Giuseppe Penone      Francis Picabia      Pablo Picasso      Bernard Rancillac      Man Ray      Martial Raysse      Thomas Ruff      Jean Rustin      Claude Rutault      Anri Sala      Kurt Schwitters      Zineb Sedira      Seton Smith      Chaim Soutine      Ettore Spalletti      Peter Stämpfli      Léopold Survage      Tatiana Trouvé      Raoul Ubac      Suzanne Valadon      Jan Vercruysse      Claude Viallat      Jacques Villegle      Jacques Villeglé      Jacques Villon      Jan Voss      Edouard Vuillard      Ossip Zadkine