Musée Marmottan Monet's 'Histoires de paysages' Reexamines Landscape from 1890 to 2026

The Musée Marmottan Monet in Paris presents 'Histoires de paysages (1890-2026)', an exhibition curated by Pierre Wat that challenges conventional views of landscape art. Spanning eleven sections, it begins with Claude Monet's 1918 donation of two Nymphéas to the French state and extends to contemporary painters and photographers. The show opens with war landscapes by Félix Vallotton and Paul Nash, alongside Pascal Convert's crystallized burnt stump, referencing the destruction of eastern French landscapes. Abstraction is explored through Piet Mondrian, Anna-Eva Bergman, and Nicolas de Staël, whose Sicile (1954) reduces the Agrigento plain to lemon yellow and ochre. A Nordic section juxtaposes Monet's Norwegian and Finnish scenes with Vilhelm Hammershøi's Zealand hills and Akseli Gallen-Kallela's Kenyan vistas. An unexpected pairing of Chaïm Soutine and Charles Pollock highlights nature's chthonic force. Lesser-known artists include Gilbert Legube, Caroline Bachmann, Emeric Lhuisset, Bernard Plossu, Sophie Ristelhueber, Nikita Kadan, and Pierre Buraglio. The final section features Edward Hopper's Lighthouse Hill (1927), on loan from the Dallas Museum of Art, and works by David Hockney, Balthus, and others, examining the interplay of space and time. The exhibition runs until January 31, 2026, at 2, rue Louis Boilly, 75016 Paris.