What is the meaning of masterpiece for Pablo Picasso? The exhibition “Picasso: Masterpieces! answers this question by bringing together some of his greatest works, some of which will be shown in Paris for the first time. Thanks to exceptional loans, masterpieces from all over the world will be displayed alongside those from the Musée National Picasso-Paris. The assembled collection offers a new look at Picasso’s creativity with special attention given to his critical reception. It explores the exhibitions, articles and…

Mucha’s iconic posters have become shorthand for Art Nouveau; but there’s much more to the Czech artist than these looping illustrations. An all-rounder, he was a keen furniture designer with quite the photography sideline. Get reacquainted with the father of Art Nouveau at the Musée du Luxembourg.

The Musée d’Orsay and the Musée national Picasso-Paris are organising an exceptional event dedicated to Pablo Picasso’s blue and rose periods. This exhibition is the first large-scale collaboration between our two museums. It features masterpieces and proposes a new interpretation on the years 1900-1906, a critical period in the artist’s career which to date has not been covered in its entirety by a French museum. The exhibition will bring together a large number of paintings and drawings with the aim…

The work of Jean-Michel Basquiat, one of the most significant painters of the 20th century, is spread over four levels of Frank Gehry’s building. The exhibition covers the painter’s whole career, from 1980 to 1988, focusing on 120 defining works. With the Heads from 1981-1982, gathered for the first time here, and the presentation of several collaborations between Basquiat and Warhol, the exhibition includes works previously unseen in Europe, essential works such as Obnoxious Liberals (1982), In Italian (1983), and…

This hotly-anticipated retrospective will feature more than 200 works by the Spanish painter and master experimenter, lifting the veil on his riotous journey to abstraction. Oct 3, 2018 to Feb 4, 2019.

Cubism jettisoned all previous notions of form – and reality – offering a radical new world of possibilities. A century on, the Centre Pompidou pays tribute to its plucky pioneers, Picasso and Braque, and the movement’s zealous followers, through 300 key works. Oct 17, 2018 to Feb 25, 2019.