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Giacometti’s Standing Woman II
(1959), in the Pompidou
Centre, one of his many
tall, thin bronze figures
2006 Jacques Chirac’s
presidential project, the Musée
du quai Branly, opens its doors.
Courbet’s The Burial at Ornans It is a museum entirely devoted
(1850) which showed Courbet to the arts of Africa, Asia, Oceania
to be the foremost exponent and America
of Realism (Musée d’Orsay)
2014 World-famous
Rude’s Departure of Musée Picasso,
the Volunteers in 1792 housed in the 17th
(1836), a tribute century Hôtel Salé,
to the French reopens after a five-
Revolution (see p213) year renovation. It
contains over 5,000
pieces, the largest
1874 First 1904 Picasso collection of Picasso’s
Impressionist settles in Paris works in the world
exhibition
1886 Van 2016 The Carnavalet,
Gogh Paris’s leading history
moves museum, closes for
to Paris three years for major
refurbishment
1905 Birth of Fauvism, the first
of the “isms” in modern art
1800 1850 1900 1950 2000 2050
Romanticism/ Realism Impressionism Modernism
1800 1850 1900 1950 2000 2050
2015 The Musée de
1863 Manet’s Le Déjeuner sur
l’Herbe (see p147) causes a l’Homme reopens after
scandalous sensation at the six years of renovations
Salon des Refusés, both for 1977 Pompidou
“poor moral taste”, and for its Centre opens 2014 Designed by
broad brushstrokes. The artist’s Canadian-American
Olympia was thought just as architect Frank Gehry to
outrageous, but it was not resemble a cloud of glass,
exhibited until 1865 1938 International the Fondation Louis Vuitton
Surrealist exhibition in Paris opens to much acclaim.
It houses 11 galleries
accommodating a
2011 Major two-year refurbishment of permanent collection
Musée d’Orsay complete, with new lighting to of contemporary art
enhance viewing of Impressionist works of art
Monet’s Impression: Sunrise
(1872), which led to the
name Impressionism

Delacroix’s Liberty Tinguely and Saint Phalle’s
Leading the People (1830) Fontaine Igor Stravinsky (1980),
romantically celebrates a modern kinetic sculpture
victory in war (Louvre) (Pompidou Centre)

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