The Musée d'Orsay renovates and reopens rooms devoted to van Gogh and the Post-Impressionists. Photos

As of September 10, it is again possible to visit the Post-Impressionist rooms at the Musée d’Orsay in Paris: they have been completely renovated and thus reopened to the public. The nine rooms, on the fifth floor of the famous Parisian museum, include paintings, sculptures, objects but also film projections, and have been totally redesigned in order to foster continuity with the rooms of the Impressionists and to better contextualize the Parisian art scene that developed between the 1880s and the beginning of the following century.

“The works,” reads a note, "have been enhanced through a more accessible route and a multidisciplinary context. This renovation makes it possible to enhance the visitor experience while reinforcing the link between the building, its location in the heart of Paris, and the collections it houses. Visitors can also embrace with their gaze Montmartre and the Opéra Garnier, places where many of the artists on display have lived and worked. The renovation of the rooms is in continuity with the Impressionists’ gallery, which was also refurbished in November 2018, with a view to coherence and respect for artistic chronology. Thus revisited, the itinerary develops the different facets of the evolution of the avant-garde in France, from the birth ofImpressionism in the late 1860s to the Post-Impressionism of the 1990s."

Among the artists the public can admire in these rooms are big names in art history: Vincent van Gogh, Paul Gauguin, Emile Bernard, Paul Sérusier, Odilon Redon and many others. The new itinerary also enhances the Musée d’Orsay’s new acquisitions, such as Emile Bernard’s Bretons in the Meadow, purchased in the spring of 2019, or Gauguin’s Flower Vase, which is presented to the public for the first time, and again Gauguin’s Still Life with Lilies bought in 2016, and again Sérusier’s very rare Tetrahedrons purchased in 2018. It will also be possible to admire Gauguin’s White Horse for the first time after the restoration that gave the work its original colors. The new itinerary then includes a room dedicated in rotation to photography and works on paper (pastels and drawings): on the occasion of the reopening, a selection of drawings on the theme of the 1889 Expo will be shown to the public. Finally, space is also given to the performing arts with a selection of zinc silhouettes designed for the celebrated Cabaret du Chat noir. A final section is also dedicated to the birth of cinema, with screenings from films such as James Williamson’s A big swallow (1901), Alice Guy’s Le coq dressé de Cook et Rilli (1910), and many others.

Below are some photos of the renovated halls.

The new van Gogh hall. Ph. Credit Eric Jouvenaux © Musée d’Orsay

Redon’s new hall. Ph. Credit Sophie Crépy © Musée d’Orsay

The new hall of Redon. Ph. Credit Eric Jouvenaux © Musée d’Orsay

The new hall of the Pont-Aven school. Ph. Credit Sophie Crépy © Musée d’Orsay

The new silhouette hall of the Cabaret du Chat Noir. Ph. Credit Sophie Crépy © Musée d’Orsay

The Musée d'Orsay renovates and reopens rooms devoted to van Gogh and the Post-Impressionists. Photos

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