An unrivalled collection
The breadth and depth of the french collection means that the museum can display some of the most important works in a exciting chapter in art history. Here are both masterpieces by the greatest artists and major works by artists who were part of radical avant-garde, but with time have faded into art history's forgotten.
Collection’s History
The collection was formed with help from a number of farsighted Danish art collectors who eagerly frequented galleries, auction houses and artists' studios in Paris. One of those was the engineer Johannes Rump who created one of the world's finest collections of Matisse's works and donated it to the museum in 1928.
Highlights
See and read more about some of the collection's major works. Note that not all of the artworks are displayed.
French Art 1900-1930
The French collection includes some of the museum's most famous works, featuring paintings, sculptures, drawings and ceramics by artists including Picasso, Braque, Modigliani Derain and Matisse.
From 28 May 2011, the collection will be presented in a new display that is based on the art scene in Paris in the early 1900s.
Here you can see how artists in this environment inspired each other and while experimenting with various stylistic expressions in ways that challenged and provoked their contemporaries.
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One of Henri Matisse's most famous paintings is a depiction of his wife. You can explore the colours in the artwork here.
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Two women have been chiselled into the picture like statues. It might be André Derain's wife and her sister who are depicted.
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A village is seen through naked tree trunks in the artwork Village Seen through Trees by Maurice de Vlaminck.
