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

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Detailed plan of the permanent collections
(Level -2)
Staircase to the Matisse Gallery and Dufy Gallery
Staircase to the Boltanski Gallery and Noire Gallery
Galleries with disabled access:
1, 2, 3, 8 - 12bis, 16, 17, 17 bis
A general plan of the museum
can be found at the end
of the leaflet
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Fauvism and Cubism
Abstraction-Creation
Decorative arts
Surrealism
The Paris School
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12bis
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17bis
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14bis
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9 Realist art
10 Abstract art
11 Étienne-Martin Collection
12 Eugène Leroy
12 bis New Realism
13 à 17 bis Contemporary art tour
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Presentation
A guide to
the collection
The City of Paris Museum of Modern Art was officially
opened in 1961 in the East Wing of the Palais de Tokyo, built
by the architects Dondel, Aubert, Viard and Dastugue for the
1937 International Exhibition.
Donors, collectors and artists have played a crucial role in
enriching the museum collections since its very beginnings.
An exceptional bequest of more than five hundred works
by Dr Maurice Girardin is one of the highlights of the current
collection and includes a body of Fauvist paintings, an
important group of Cubist works and numerous works from
the Paris School. In 1954, Électricité de France donated the
huge mural by Raoul Dufy entitled La Fée Électricité
[The Electricity Fairy]. Donations from Amos (1955) and
Henry-Thomas (1976,1984,1986) also played a decisive part
in establishing the museum’s identity. The museum has
also received gifts from numerous artists.
Moreover, from 1937, the City of Paris had already started
to acquire major artworks such as The Dance by Matisse.
The museum collection based around outstanding works
(Bonnard, the decorative arts from the inter-war era,
Delaunay, Dufy, Fautrier, Rouault, Étienne Martin, etc)
was further enriched by groups of work representing
contemporary movements (New Realism, Arte Povera,
Supports/Surfaces, Narrative Figuration, German painting,