Suzanne Sunday

 Late afternoon in the studio of artist Suzanne Valadon.

Musée de Montmartre
12 rue Cortot 75018

 

Museum Monday

 ADYA & OTTO VAN REES

 At the heart of the avant-garde 

 

Ends September 13, 2026 

 

Musée de Montmartre
12 rue Cortot 75018

 

 

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Dutch artist couple Adya van Rees-Dutilh (1876-1959) and Otto van Rees (1884-1957) have returned to Montmartre, offering a fascinating example of a true artistic partnership at the heart of 20th-century modernism. They lived and worked in Montmartre's now famous Bateau-Lavoir (Picasso, Braque, van Dongen, Mondrian, Modigliani and poet/writer Max Jacob were part of their circle) and later, Montparnasse, in the era that helped define Pointillism, Cubism, Cloisonnism (with its flat planes of color, heavy dark contours and simplified forms) and eventually, Abstraction. The current exhibition at the Musée de Montmartre - with its refreshing garden, small tea room, and sweeping views - is the perfect opportunity to discover them. - BPJ

 

 

 

 

Window Wednesday

An atelier d'artiste in a private Montmartre courtyard at the Golden Hour. 

 

Montmartre Monday

 A portrait artist perched above a bustling café scene below.

 

Portes Ouvertes / Open Doors: Montmartre

 

 

MAP

 

 

Portes Ouvertes 2025

 

Thru Monday November 17   

 

From Anvers aux Abbesses

124 Artistes - 73 Ateliers

9th, 17th and 18th arrondissements

(Mainly in / around Montmartre)

 Discover / support participating artists and galleries.

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In their footsteps:   

Painting
Watercolor

Photography 

Mixed Media

Textile

Engraving
Sculpture
Drawing
Collage
Mosaic
Ceramics
Digital art
Street Art

 Jewelry

 

 

Museum Monday

 

 

The Musée de Montmartre celebrates the opening of a spectacular new exhibition.

 

Above: private invitation champagne reception in the enchanting Renoir Gardens

 

 

École de Paris: The Marek Roefler Collection

 

 Musée de Montmartre

12 rue Cortot 75018

 

Ends February 15, 2026

 

 

 

[Tamara de Lempicka, Portrait of a Russian Dancer; Henri Hayden, Chess Players]

 

(click to enlarge)

 

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Highlighting art critic André Warnod's 1925 term "École de Paris" for international artists who made Montmartre and Montparnasse pre-World War I hubs of creativity, this diverse group - mostly Jewish artists from Central and Eastern Europe, plus talents like Picasso (Spain), Modigliani (Italy), Foujita (Japan), and Rivera (Mexico) - nurtured avant-garde styles like cubism, fauvism, and expressionism. The exhibition showcases Polish masters from Marek Roefler’s collection, including Ossip Zadkine, Tamara de Lempicka, Moïse Kisling, and lesser-known figures like Henri Hayden, Eugène Zak, and Mela Muter.

The sheer number of works and artists is overwhelming. The show traces a north-south path through these iconic districts, blending influences from Cézanne, Gauguin, and Van Gogh with unique styles shaped by intellectual freedom, supported by figures like Guillaume Apollinaire and Max Jacob. Part of the museum’s focus on artistic diversity and Montmartre’s legacy, it is backed by Poland’s Embassy in France and the Polish Institute in Paris, in partnership with Villa La Fleur museum in Poland and the Basilique du Sacré-Coeur, with a companion publication.  - BPJ

 

Museum Monday

MÜNTER / MATISSE

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Gabriele Münter

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 Henri Matisse et Marguerite: le régard d'un père

 

 MUSÉE D'ART MODERNE DE PARIS

 11 Avenue du Président Wilson 75116

 

Ends August 24, 2025

 

 

Franquette Friday

Used in a Woody Allen film to create romantic allure, this nostalgic café-restaurant helms the historic crest of Montmartre, once hosting personnages like Van Gogh, Monet, Pissarro, Cézanne and Zola.

Belladonna

 

 

Tatiana Wolska

"Tatiana Wolska’s Belladonna exhibition nestles between the political and the intimate, offering a physical and cognitive experience where drawing merges with sculpture. Witches’ plant, good or magic weed known since ancient times, Belladonna, is both the remedy and the poison reminding us that its use requires subtle handling as well as great knowledge. Through the history of this plant, the exhibition promotes proliferation and dialogue in order to unite the familiar and the strange, lightness and ardor, suggestion and claim."

Curated by Marianne Derrien

Drawing Lab Paris

17 rue de Richelieu 75001

January 24 - April 20, 2025

Mona Monday

 

 

Pie-in-the-face Mona

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Fun exhibition on a narrow Marais side street

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FINAL DAY: all weekend and thru Monday November 18:

Montmartre's unique annual Portes Ouvertes des ateliers d'artistes: from Anvers to Abbesses, when artists open their private ateliers to the public and Parisians and visitors alike roam the streets, stairways and hills, maps in hand, searching hidden addresses and local art.

101 Artistes - 63 Ateliers

 Thank you organizers and Mairie du 18ème

 

(click to enlarge)

 

Mocha Monday

 

From Anvers aux Abbesses

101 Artistes - 63 Ateliers

  Friday November 15 - Monday November 18

- Montmartre opens its doors -

18th and 9th arrondissements

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 Portes Ouvertes 2024

Painting
Photography
Watercolor
Engraving
Sculpture
Drawing
Japanese Nihonga
Collage
Mosaic
Ceramics
Digital art
Street Art

 

Spiraling

 

The colimaçon (spiral staircase) inside former home/studio now museum of symbolist Gustave Moreau (1826-1898).

 

 Musée Gustave Moreau

14 rue de La Rochefoucauld 75009

 

 

Window Wednesday

 

Night view overlooking the square of Place du Tertre, "the most romantic part of Paris."

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Joyeuse Saint-Valentin

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Mirror Monday

 A beautiful mirror at Café La Palette on the Left Bank.

 

Twisted Tuesday

 

Upside down world.

 Above: mixed media digital art by Lithuanian artist Natalie Shau

 

 

 

Chagall-Klee

Marc Chagal - Paris / New York

Paul Klee - Convergence

L'Atelier des Lumières

Until January, 2024

 

Mona Monday

La Jaconde gets a new look.

A sculptor's sculptor

 

 

Beijing-born Wang Keping is the first artist ever to be welcomed by the Rodin Museum to use its grounds as his personal open-air atelier. Visitors are invited to observe him at work in a magnificent setting from now until June 5, 2022.

 

Wang Keping at the Musée Rodin

(press preview) 

 

- The Good Life France Magazine - 

 

 

 

 

 

"For much of his life in Mao’s China where art was strictly controlled, Keping had no idea that sculptures even existed as an art form, only paintings. His discovery of Rodin’s sculptures with their sensual forms, in particular of the female body, was life-changing." - Barbara Pasquet James

Passage des arts

 

 

Hidden artists' ateliers in a passage off a back street in the Bastille district.

 

Portrait on demand

Portrait painters await customers at the top of the butte.