A guide to the collection - Musée d'Art Moderne - Ville de Paris

Bridget Riley
Lilac painting, 2003-2008
© Bridget Riley
Gallery 15
Permanent collections Permanent collections
Simon Hantaï
Enguerrand Quarton,
Meun, 1968-1973
© ADAGP
Gallery 14
Henri Matisse
The Dance of
Paris, 1931-1933
© Succession
Henri Matisse
Matisse Gallery
Individually accessible galleries
Dufy Gallery
The former reception room of the museum houses the
huge mural painted by Raoul Dufy for the 1937 International
Art and Technology Exhibition. Originally installed in the
Pavillon de la Lumière built by Mallet-Stevens, it depicts the
history of electricity through its applications and inventors.
Matisse Gallery
The Unfinished Dance (1931) and The Dance of Paris
(1931-1933) comprise two of the three versions of the
mural commissioned from Matisse in 1930 by Doctor
Albert C. Barnes for his foundation in Merion, Pennsylvania.
Abandoning traditional oil on canvas, he invented the
new technique of using coloured paper cut-outs to put the
finishing touches to his work. Buren’s Wall of Paintings
has been installed opposite it. The apse houses alternating
thematic or monographic displays of works from the Henry-
Thomas collection as a tribute to these two major donors.