Guided tour of the exhibition Paris Pallady, with Erwin Kessler
Saturday, Oct. 4, 20:00-21:00
We offer:
🎨 Access to the exhibition Paris Pallady
🗣️ Guided tour in the exhibition space
🍸 Free drinks
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Join us for a guided tour led by art historian Erwin Kessler, through the exhibition Paris Pallady, dedicated to the painter who brought the “air de Paris” to Romanian art! Discover the universe of a creator who lived between Bucharest and Paris, and who transformed the city into an artistic ideal. The exhibition brings together over 100 works and relevant documents, including loans from the renowned Musée de l’Orangerie and Musée Henri Matisse – Département du Nord.
Greater Paris was both the cradle and the benchmark of quality for the art of Little Paris. It wasn’t just about the Paris of studios and art schools, but about the unique essence of the experience of living, of growing intellectually, artistically, and socially in that unparalleled environment.
Theodor Pallady was one of those artists who breathed in and passed on that distinct “Parisian air.” After beginning his studies at the Polytechnic in Dresden, he radically changed his path and enrolled at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris, in the class of master Gustave Moreau, alongside fellow students Matisse, Marquet, and Rouault. His friendship with Henri Matisse lasted a lifetime, and for Pallady Paris remained not only a place of artistic formation, but a true state of mind.
He lived and worked in both Bucharest and Paris, infusing his paintings with the bourgeois atmosphere of the urban interior — an “urban paradise” that stood in contrast to the rural one glorified by Grigorescu and his followers. While Romanian tradition painted the peasant and the hero, Pallady depicts the quiet of interior spaces, the beauty of everyday life, and the refinement of the urban world.
The programme of the event:
🤗 19:30-20:00 – access and setting up the visiting groups
🖼️ 20:00-21:00 – the guided tour
🪩 21:00-21:30 – time for socialising
Important details:
Punctuality: Our guides are punctual. If you arrive after 12:00, you may miss valuable information about the works in the exhibition.
Selection of works: The guides will selectively present the most important works on display.
Preservation conditions: A dark and cool atmosphere is maintained in the exhibition galleries, in line with the art conservation standards.