La Fondation Marguerite et Aimé Maeght compte aujourd’hui parmi les grandes institutions culturelles internationales. Inaugurée le 28 juillet 1964 par André Malraux, la fondation est née de l'amitié d’Aimé Maeght et de son épouse Marguerite, principaux éditeurs et marchands d’art de l’Europe d’après-guerre, avec certains des artistes les plus importants du XXe siècle comme Joan Miró, Alexander Calder, Fernand Léger, Georges Braque, Alberto Giacometti, Marc Chagall et bien d’autres. Couple visionnaire, ils ont organisé des expositions légendaires telles que la première exposition surréaliste en 1947 autour d’André Breton et Marcel Duchamp dans leur galerie parisienne. Première fondation privée dédiée à l’art en France, la Fondation Maeght est inspirée de modèles américains, comme la fondation Guggenheim ou les collections Barnes et Phillips, découverts par les Maeght lors de leurs voyages aux États-Unis dans les années 1950.

Située à proximité du célèbre village de Saint-Paul de Vence à 25 km de Nice, la Fondation Maeght accueille chaque année plus de 100 000 visiteurs dans un ensemble architectural unique, conçu par Josep Lluís Sert, pour présenter l'art moderne et contemporain sous toutes ses formes. Peintres et sculpteurs ont collaboré avec l'architecte catalan en créant des œuvres intégrées au bâtiment et à la nature : la cour Giacometti, le labyrinthe Miró peuplé de sculptures et de céramiques, les mosaïques murales de Chagall et de Tal Coat, le bassin et le vitrail de Braque, la fontaine de Bury. L'ensemble mêle espaces intérieurs et extérieurs avec le jardin de sculptures, les cours, terrasses et patios, les salles d'exposition, la chapelle, la bibliothèque et la librairie.

Pierre Soulages, « peintre du noir et de la lumière » est une figure majeure de la peinture non figurative, reconnue comme telle depuis ses débuts, au lendemain de la seconde guerre mondiale.
Né le 24 décembre 1919 à Rodez (Aveyron), Pierre Soulages, qui continue de peindre aujourd’hui à un rythme soutenu, fêtera son centième anniversaire en décembre prochain. À cette occasion, le musée du Louvre lui consacre une exposition exceptionnelle dans le prestigieux Salon Carré, situé entre la galerie d’Apollon et la Grande Galerie et qui abritait jadis le Salon des Académies.
Cette exposition – hommage prend le parti de rendre compte du parcours chronologique de l’oeuvre de 1946 à aujourd’hui, en représentant par un choix resserré, les huit décennies pendant lesquelles Soulages a développé ses recherches. La rare longévité de la carrière de l’artiste est ainsi illustrée par un choix d’oeuvres majeures provenant principalement des plus grands musées français et étrangers. Ne négligeant aucune période et mettant l’accent sur les polyptyques outrenoir, l’exposition permettra également de découvrir de très grandes peintures réalisées ces derniers mois, signe de la vitalité remarquable de ce peintre qui poursuit ses recherches sans discontinuer.

Pierre Soulages. Portrait de l’artiste, 2 octobre 2017_Collection Raphaël Gaillarde © Collection Raphaël Gaillarde, dist. RMN-Grand Palais/Raphaël Gaillarde © RMN-Grand Palais - Gestion droit d'auteur pour Raphaël Gaillarde © ADAGP, Paris 2019 pour Pierre Soulages

Dora Maar
Tate Modern
Bankside
London SE1 9TG
https://www.tate.org.uk/
20 November 2019 – 15 March 2020
Open daily 10.00 – 18.00 and until 22.00 on Friday and Saturday
For public information call +44(0)20 7887 8888, visit tate.org.uk or follow @Tate #DoraMaar

Tate Modern presents the first UK retrospective of the work of Dora Maar (1907–97) whose provocative photographs and photomontages became celebrated icons of surrealism. Featuring over 200 works from a career spanning more than six decades, this exhibition shows how Maar’s eye for the unusual also translated to her commercial commissions, social documentary photographs, and paintings – key aspects of her practice which have, until now, remained little known.

Born Henriette Théodora Markovitch, Dora Maar grew up between Argentina and Paris and studied decorative arts and painting before switching her focus to photography. In doing so, Maar became part of a generation of women who seized the new professional opportunities offered by advertising and the illustrated press. Tate Modern’s exhibition opens with the most important examples of these commissioned works. Around 1931, Maar set up a studio with film set designer Pierre Kéfer specialising in portraiture, fashion photography and advertising. Works such as The years lie in wait for you c.1935 – believed to be an advertising project for face cream that Maar made by overlaying two negatives – reveal Maar’s innovative approach to constructing images through staging, photomontage and collage. Striking nude studies such as that of famed model Assia Granatouroff also reveal how women photographers like Maar were beginning to infiltrate relatively taboo genres such as erotica and nude photography.

Dora Maar, 1907-1997
The years lie in wait for you c. 1935
Photograph, gelatin silver print on paper 355 × 254 mm
The William Talbott Hillman Collection
© ADAGP, Paris and DACS, London 2019

First major museum exhibition to focus on Édouard Manet’s late work, featuring more than 90
paintings and drawings, including Jeanne (Spring), 1882

At the Getty Museum, Getty Center
October 8, 2019 through January 12, 2020

LOS ANGELES—Édouard Manet (1832-1883) is best known today for provocative, large-scale paintings that challenged the old masters and academic tradition and sent shockwaves through the French art world in the early 1860s. In the late 1870s and early 1880s, he shifted his focus and produced a different, though no less radical, body of work: stylish portraits, luscious still lifes, delicate pastels, intimate watercolors, and freely brushed scenes of suburban gardens and Parisian cafes.

On view at the J. Paul Getty Museum October 8, 2019 through January 12, 2020, Manet and Modern Beauty explores for the first time in a major museum exhibition the artist’s last years, after his rise to notoriety in the 1860s and the formal launch of the Impressionist movement in the early 1870s. The exhibition will feature more than 90 works of art, including an impressive array of genre scenes, still lifes, pastels, and portraits of favorite actresses and models, bourgeois women of his acquaintance, his wife, and his male friends.
“Manet is a titan of modern art, but most art historical narratives about his achievement focus on his early and mid-career work,” says Timothy Potts, director of the J. Paul Getty Museum. “Many of his later paintings are of extraordinary beauty, executed at the height of his artistic prowess—despite the fact that he was already afflicted with the illness that would lead to his early death. These works sparkle with an insistent – perhaps even defiant – sense of life. Presenting many iconic paintings, including our recently acquired Jeanne (Spring), alongside pastels and intimate watercolors, Manet and Modern Beauty takes a fresh look at this justly renowned and ever-popular artist.”

Dates: October 18, 2019–February 9, 2020
Curator: Manuel Cirauqui, Guggenheim Museum Bilbao

All the information on the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao is available at www.guggenheim-bilbao.eus

- The idea of a “fourth dimension” is materialized in Soto’s dynamic and abstract works, especially in his large-scale participatory sculptures, the iconic Penetrables .

- In addition to a large number of mural pieces, the exhibition includes characteristic examples from other series, such as Virtual Volumes , Extensions , and Progressions .

- According to the artist, “In the Penetrables , the spectator walks through vertical threads or bars that fill the entire available space and make up the work. From that moment on, spectator and artwork are physically and inextricably entwined.”

- The exhibition includes Soto’s celebrated Sphère Lutétia (1996), installed by the Museum’s pond for the four months of the exhibition.

The Guggenheim Museum Bilbao presents Soto. The Fourth Dimension, a retrospective exhibition of the works of Jesús Rafael Soto (b. 1923, Ciudad Bolívar, Venezuela; d. 2005, Paris). Organized by the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao in collaboration with the Atelier Soto in Paris, the show brings together over 60 works, including several of Soto’s large-scale participatory sculptures called Penetrables , some of his most iconic and important contributions to the recent history of art. In addition, the show includes a large number of historic paintings and mural works, which help to understand the fundamental role Soto played in the development of Kinetic Art from the early 1950s to the end of the 1960s, and to appreciate the development of his artistic practice up to the first decade of the 21st century.

Jesús Rafael Soto
Sans titre (Composition dynamique), [Untitled (Dynamic Composition)], 1950
Oil on canvas 73 x 92 x 2 cm Private collection
© Jesús Rafael Soto, ADAGP, Paris / VEGAP, Bilbao, 2019