Exhibition ‘Post-Impressionism: 115 Masterpieces from the Musée d’Orsay’ Opened

On May 26, the exhibition ‘Post-Impressionism: 115 Masterpieces from the Musée d’Orsay’ opened at the National Art Center, Tokyo (until August 16). It featured French art from the late nineteenth to early twentieth centuries, following the Impressionists, through 115 works of art from the collection of Musée d’Orsay, renowned for its collection of modern French art. This large-scale exhibition chronologically traced works from the final Impressionist exhibition in 1886 to those by the Nabis in the 1920s. It consisted of ten chapters: Chapter 1 ‘Les impressionnistes autour de 1886’; Chapter 2 ‘Seurat et le Néo-Impressionnisme’; Chapter 3 ‘Cézanne et “cézannité”’; Chapter 4 ‘Toulouse-Lautrec’; Chapter 5 ‘Van Gogh et Gauguin’; Chapter 6 ‘L’Ecole de Pont-Aven’; Chapter 7 ‘Les Nabis’; Chapter 8 ‘Sonorités intérieures’; Chapter 9 ‘Le “douanier Rousseau”’; and Chapter 10 ‘Triomphe du décor’. The exhibition was made possible by the loan of 115 artworks from the Musée d’Orsay’s collection as a single package, in conjunction with the museum’s major refurbishment in 2010. (Japanese)