2024-03-04 07:42:38
Sunday March 3, 2024, Michaël DELAFOSSE went to Fabre museum to discover the two masterpieces by Edouard Manet on display until June 23, 2024. Indeed, on the occasion of the celebrations dedicated to the birth of Impressionism in spring 2024, the Fabre museum welcomes two masterpieces work of Edouard Manet: The Fife (1866) and the Portrait of Emile Zola (1868), loans from the Musée d’Orsay.
150 years of Impressionism: two paintings by Edouard Manet exhibited at the Fabre museum
The Fabre Museum’s collections for this period have at their heart the works of Frédéric Bazille, a Montpellier artist who died too young, in 1870, to appear in the 1874 exhibition.
He was nevertheless involved in the beginnings of Impressionism, maintaining a relationship that was both friendly and artistic emulation with Alfred Sisley, Auguste Renoir, and Claude Monet. The exceptional loans from the Musée d’Orsay are an opportunity to evoke the beginnings of Impressionism, and in particular the affiliation of Gustave Courbet to Frédéric Bazille, two major artists in the Montpellier collections, with emphasis on the central figure of ‘Edouard Manet.
These two paintings took place on the second floor in a dedicated room (Canonge room) of the permanent exhibition which highlights the links of the three artists, as well as the critical, literary and political figures, who accompanied them and defended the New Painting . The portrait of Emile Zola by Manet is thus placed in dialogue with the Portrait of Charles Baudelaire by Courbet which the museum keeps, as well as that of Antonin Proust by Manet, politician and fervent defender of the arts, organizer of one of the first official exhibitions of Courbet at the Paris School of Fine Arts in 1882.
Furthermore, the connection between Manet and Bazille is shown through an eloquent face-to-face between The Little Italian Singer of the Streets of the latter, kept at the Fabre museum, and Le Fifre of the former, two works produced in the same year, which share the same popular theme and the same direct and frontal approach to reality, excluding any form of sublimation through artifice.
A national event at the initiative of the Musée d’Orsay
These loans are part of the project led by the Musée D’Orsay to make the celebration of 150 years of Impressionism a national event through a series of loans to all the major museums of France to make it visible to all masterpieces of impressionist painting.
178 works loaned, 34 participating institutions, 13 regions represented.
In parallel at the Musée d’Orsay, from March 26 to July 14, 2024, the exhibition “Paris 1874. Inventing Impressionism. “.
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