Exhibition presents a pictorial itinerary that ranges from Monet to Matisse

The Musée Marmottan Monet is presenting—until 10 February 2019—an exhibition entitled ‘Collections Privées: un Voyage des Impressionnistes aux Fauves’ (‘Private Collections: From the Impressionists to the Fauves’). The exhibition includes sixty-two paintings, drawings, and sculptures held in private collections (in Europe, the United States, and Latin America)—most of which have never or rarely been exhibited in Paris—in a pictorial itinerary that ranges from Monet to Matisse. The private mansion in Rue Louis Boilly, in the sixteenth arrondissement of Paris, provides the ideal showcase for this event. It is worth noting that the Musée Marmottan Monet is primarily a ‘collectors’ museum’, that is to say an institution whose permanent collections—including the world’s most extensive collection of Claude Monet’s works—have been privately donated. Hence, the muse