MoMA Collection Comes to Paris in Major Exhibition Presented by Fondation Louis Vuitton

Yesterday, Tuesday 10 October, Paris, France: Fondation Louis Vuitton presented an exceptional exhibition devoted to the unrivaled collection of the Museum of Modern Art. Featuring more than 200 renowned masterpieces and less familiar, but highly significant works, the exhibition highlights the pivotal role that MoMA, its curators, and its exhibition program have played in the history of art in the 20th and 21st Centuries.

Now engaged in a significant expansion and renovation of its building, MoMA has chosen Fondation Louis Vuitton as its partner to bring its legendary artistic heritage to Paris, showcasing its mission to be perpetually modern.

The exhibition draws together a superb and far-reaching representation of the highly important artworks that MoMA has acquired since its founding in 1929 ranging from the birth of modern art through trends and styles such as American abstraction, Pop art and Minimalism to the most contemporary art.

Among the 200 works presented at Fondation Louis Vuitton are masterpieces by Paul Cézanne, Gustav Klimt, Paul Signac, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse, Giorgio de Chirico, Edward Hopper, Max Beckmann, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, Marcel Duchamp, Francis Picabia, Alexander Calder, René Magritte, Walker Evans, Yayoi Kusama, Willem de Kooning, Jasper Johns, Yvonne Rainer and Frank Stella.

Some of the works are being shown in France for the first time: Constantin Brancusi’s bronze Bird in Space (1928); Andy Warhol’s Campbell’s Soup Cans (1962); Philip Guston’s Tomb (1978); (Untitled) “USA Today” by Felix Gonzalez-Torres (1990) and more.

Roy Lichtenstein – Drowning Girl, 1963

Yayoi Kusama – Accumulation No1, 1962

Kerry James Marshall – Untitled Club Scene, 2013

Bruce Nauman – Human need desire, 1983

Andy Warhol Campbells Soup Cans, 1962

Pauk Signac, 1991

Latoya Ruby Frazier – Grandma Ruby and Me, 2005

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