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Musée d’Art Moderne de Paris

Paris, France

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  1. Take a permitted photo Use a photo allowed by the museum's current rules.
  2. Read the sourced history When Lensmark can verify the work, it explains what the sources support and links to them. When it cannot, it says so plainly.
  3. Ask a follow-up Continue with a question about the work's maker, age or significance.
  4. Your Musée d’Art Moderne de Paris walk saves itself. Just take pictures. Each work is kept with its sourced history, grouped by day.

Images in the demo: La Fée Électricité, Raoul Dufy, 1937. Francesco Bini, Source credit: Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons. Source photo; CC BY-SA 4.0, also applying to these cropped renditions. La Danse, Henri Matisse, between 1931 and 1933. Henri Matisse, CC0 Paris Musées / Musée d’art moderne de Paris. Source image; CC0. Rythme n°1, décoration pour le Salon des Tuileries, Robert Delaunay, 1938. Robert Delaunay, Source credit: Photograph by Coldcreation, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons. Source photo; public-domain notice. Images cropped and resized; the mural views show details.

What the Musée d’Art Moderne de Paris collection covers

The Musée d’Art Moderne de Paris occupies the east wing of the Palais de Tokyo. Its collection brings twentieth-century art into conversation with contemporary work. Collection

The City of Paris opened the museum in 1961. Its ARC department, established in 1967, developed a space for artistic research and exchange with living artists.

Its collection strengths include Fauvism and Cubism, École de Paris and interwar decorative arts, modern French painting, and postwar and contemporary art.

  • La Fée Électricité

    Raoul Dufy

    Date
    1937

    Dufy's mural tells the history of electricity through science and mythology. Its 250 panels cover 600 square metres.

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  • La Danse

    Henri Matisse

    Date
    Between 1931 and 1933

    Matisse's La Danse is an oil painting across three panels. The Paris museum records this version as AMVP 1688.

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  • Rythme n°1, décoration pour le Salon des Tuileries

    Robert Delaunay

    Date
    1938

    Delaunay made this oil painting as a decoration for the Salon des Tuileries. It entered the collection as a gift from the Salon des Réalités Nouvelles in 1939.

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These are collection records, not confirmation that the works are on display today.

Check the photography rules first

Paris Musées permits photography and filming of permanent-collection works for private use only, with no flash, additional lighting, tripods or selfie sticks; temporary exhibitions may have local restrictions, technical installations and equipment must not be photographed, recording staff or visitors requires the museum's authorization and their prior written consent, and online or other public distribution requires prior written museum authorization. Read its current visitor conditions and follow gallery signs before taking a photo. Musée d’Art Moderne de Paris photography policy

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