Matignon, Paris
Group Exhibition
Impressionism & Legacy
Helene Bailly MarcilhacEugène Boudin, Emilio Boggio, Gustave Cariot, Henri-Edmond Cross, Edward Cucuel, Edgar Degas, Eva Gonzales, Childe Hassam, Blanche Hoschedé-Monet, Georges Lacombe, Henri Lebasque, Gustave Loiseau, Maximilien Luce, Henri Manguin, Henri Martin, Maxime Maufra, Mela Muter (Maria Melania Mutermilch Dit), Jean Peské, Camille Pissarro, Camille Pissarro, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Louis Ritman, Alfred Sisley, Paul Signac, Henri Toulouse-Lautrec, Louis Valtat, Edouard Vuillard The Helene Bailly Marcilhac gallery is pleased to present Impressionism & Heritage, an exhibition that examines, from Impressionism to Neo- and Post-Impressionism, the pivotal years in which these movements liberated both colour and painting itself. True to its mission of fostering dialogue between history and movements, the gallery offers a presentation that links Impressionism to its many afterlives. The exhibition explores the continuity between founding masters and their heirs, showing how sensation, colour and time generated, from the second half of the nineteenth century to the 1930s, new ways of representing and perceiving the world. In 1874, the first Impressionist exhibition was held in Nadar’s studio, where Claude Monet showed Impression, Sunrise; from this event the term “Impressionism” was born. Around Claude Monet, Auguste Renoir, Alfred Sisley and Camille Pissarro, painters left the studio for open-air painting, capturing shifting reflections and the poetry of everyday life. Their free, vibrant touch marked the advent of a new art—freed from narrative and grounded in perception. The movement sought to break with academic convention in favour of light, colour and the immediacy of sensation: the fleeting experience of a landscape, a light, an emotion that the painters aimed to grasp in all its vitality. A veritable anthology of life’s instants, it embodies the modernity and expressive power of painting between 1863 and 1930. Recognised for its educative approach, the Helene Bailly Marcilhac Gallery brings into resonance the methods and techniques of diverse artists. Camille Pissarro, a central figure of painting from the motif, whose sensitivity to seasons and atmospheric effects embodies the spirit of Impressionism. The exhibition also includes, among others, works by Henri-Edmond Cross and Paul Signac, for whom the divided touch and the juxtaposition of pure tones express a pursuit of rigour and luminous vibration. We are likewise delighted to present works by Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Alfred Sisley, Henri Martin, as well as by several major Post-Impressionist figures such as Georges Lemmen, Georges d’Es- pagnat, Théo van Rysselberghe, Maximilien Luce, Henri Lebasque, Henri Manguin, Émile Othon Friesz, Gustave Loiseau, Jean Peské and Richard Emil Miller, known as “Ritman”. These artists—direct or spiritual heirs of the Impressionists—carry forward the exploration of light and colour, seeking to translate the world’s vibration through touch and pictorial matter. Their work attests to a refined and rigorous inquiry at the crossroads of modernity and tradition. Impressionism & Heritage bears witness to almost a century of pictorial exploration in which colour, light and perception remain the true subjects of modernity.