After the Petit Palais' last marvellous exhibition, it's pulled out all the stops for a truly five-star experience. The theme? Paris. The line-up? It’s Franco-Batavian and seriously impressive: over 115 works by Van Gogh, Mondrian, Scheffer, Van Dongen, Millet and Cezanne, to name but a few. This rich chronological 19th-century collection makes the links between freshly arrived Dutch artists and the Parisian masters.
Paris, a city where all is possible, transformed the conservative and out-dated attitudes of the Dutch artists and rather than carrying on the tradition of their elders, they set a great artistic revolution in motion. Take Van Gogh for example, who painted the Butte Montmartre in a pointillist style at the end of the 19th century, or Mondrian, who plunged himself into his own interpretation of cubism. This is a mesmerising deep-dive into the Pigalle of yesteryear.
