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Love impressionist art? Then put down the croissant and get your derriere to the Marmottan Monet!
This building houses over three hundred impressionist and post-impressionist paintings, one hundred of which are by Claude Monet himself. Now filled with beautiful paintings of sunsets and flowers, the house was originally a hunting lodge. I imagine it filled with guns and taxidermy animals, a true man cave. We’ll take portraits of ladies in pretty dresses, thankyouverymuch.
In 1985, Musee Marmottan Monet experienced quite an art theft. Five masked gunmen burst into the museum and held the security guards and visitors up at gunpoint. They proceeded to grab nine paintings, including Monet’s Impression, Sunrise, the painting from which the impressionist movement got its name! Quel horreur! These paintings were valued at about $12 million. Luckily, the work was soon recovered when a tip led the police to the doorstep of Shuinichi Fujikuma, a Japanese gangster who had recently served time for trafficking heroin. From heroin to art, I'd say he’s moving on up in the world.
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The Musée Marmottan Monet (
French pronunciation: [myze maʁmɔtɑ̃ mɔnɛ]; English: Marmottan Monet Museum) is an art museum in Paris, France, dedicated to artist Claude Monet. The collection features over three hundred Impressionist and post-Impressionist paintings by Monet, including his 1872 Impression, Sunrise. A number of Impressionist works by other painters are also displayed; the museum hosts the largest Berthe Morisot public collection in the world.
The museum finds its origin in the 1932 donation by art historian Paul Marmottan of his father's pavillon de chasse, that he transformed into an hôtel particulier and which now houses the museum, to the Académie des Beaux-Arts, along with a sizeable family collection from the Renaissance and the Napoleonic era. The museum opened in 1934; its fame is the result of a donation in 1966 by Michel Monet, Claude's second son and only heir.
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