From Impressionism to Cubism, the exhibition will show how sport and sportspeople were made into icons of modernity and the avant-garde. It will explore the ethical challenges and aesthetic aspects of how sports were perceived by artists such as Monet, Degas, Caillebotte, Toulouse-Lautrec, Eakins, Richer, Maillol, Rodin, Bellows, Lhote, Delaunay, Metzinger and Gromaire, including elitist sports such as horse-riding, sailing and fencing and age-old sports such as wrestling, boxing and ball games. It will also look at the metaphorical meanings of the heroic figure of the artist as sportsperson, characterized by determination, stamina and a form of resistance.
Chief curator: Érik Desmazières, director, Musée Marmottan Monet
Scientific curator: Bertrand Tillier, professor of contemporary history, Paris – Panthéon Sorbonne University; co-director, Centre d’Histoire du XIXe Siècle; director, Éditions de la Sorbonne
Associate curator: Aurélie Gavoille, curatorial assistant, Musée Marmottan Monet
4 April - 1 September 2024
Standard rate: 14 euros
Concessions: 9 euros
Under 7 : free
Available in French
and in English : 4 euros