An extension of Musée d'Orsay, Musée de l'Orangerie features a wide selection of impressionist and post-impressionist art. It is best known for its enlarged "Water Lilies" paintings by Claude Monet.
In 1955, Alfred Barr brought one of Monet’s large panels of Water Lilies (W1992) into the collection of the Museum of Modern Art in New York, at a time when these great "decorations", still in the ...
Musée de l'Orangerie’s first virtual reality (VR) experience opened in December 2018 in conjunction with the opening of Monet – Clemenceau Collection, part of the Clemenceau “Father of Victory” ...
Abstract Expressionism, the movement that cemented New York’s status as the new center of the art world after World War II, is coming home—to Paris. The quintessentially American art movement’s debt ...
Those in Paris for Art Basel week got a transcendent treat on Friday, when beloved singer Caroline Polachek set up shop at the Musée de l’Orangerie and sang a short program of songs, including an ...
PARIS — It was originally meant to be a sort of indoor garden, an oasis in a big city. Instead, the Paris museum gallery that held eight of Claude Monet’s shimmering “water lilies” paintings was drab ...