That Heinz Berggruen had a flair for art could have been understood from his first purchase which he made during his honeymoon in Chicago when he bought a watercolor by Paul Klee from a Jewish refugee for just 100 dollars. Berggruen was also in America to escape the Nazi fury. He was just 22 years old and essentially penniless. Over the years, after his return to Europe, his love for art quickly took shape, giving life to an important and eclectic art gallery in Paris and establishing himself over the years as one of the most talented and sophisticated collectors and art dealers in the world. The heart of the exhibition was created to tell his personal story intertwined with that of an extraordinary art collection that brings together masterpieces by most of the most important artists of the twentieth century, with a strong presence of his two favorites Paul Klee and Pablo Picasso - but also sculptures by Giacometti, collages by Matisse, masterpieces by Seurat - of whom he was a tireless supporter from the beginning.
The large private collection of ancient Roman sculpture preserved to this day - that collected by the Torlonia Princes throughout the nineteenth century in Rome - arrives in Paris in an exhibition in dialogue with the collections of the Louvre.
For the first time after more than forty years at the Palais Galliera, an exhibition is entirely dedicated to an accessory, the hat, elevated to the rank of a work of art. The tour focuses on the creative process of genius hat maker Stephen Jones.
An exhibition dedicated to Gustave Caillebotte's (1848 - 1894) predilection for male subjects which aims to question the very radical modernity of the French artist's works through the prism of the new vision that art history has of 19th century masculinities .
José de Ribera, painting from nature after Caravaggio
In the wake of Caravaggio, José de Ribera (1591 - 1652) established himself as one of the most fascinating interpreters of life painting in Italy. The Petit Palais presents with a hundred masterpieces - paintings, drawings and prints from all over the world - the first French retrospective ever dedicated to this Spanish artist.
