Masterpieces from the Musée de l’Orangerie, Jean Walter and Paul Guillaume Collection

As the Yokohama Museum of Art continues to celebrate its 30th anniversary, the museum will present artworks from the Jean Walter and Paul Guillaume Collection of Paris’s Musée de l’Orangerie. Paul Guillaume (1891-1934) was one of the most prominent art dealer-collectors in Paris in the early 20th century. By the time of his death at the age of 42, Guillaume had amassed an outstanding collection of works from leading modernists such as Matisse, Picasso and Modigliani, as well as Renoir’s ‘Girls Playing the Piano’ (ca. 1892). A total of 70 paintings have been selected from the 146-piece collection, in this first major showing of the collection in Japan in over 20 years.