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Natixis: a major sponsor of the Musée d’Orsay
Frédéric Bazille - Family Reunion also called Family Portraits 1867 (detail) © RMN (Musée d'Orsay) / Hervé Lewandowski
Exclusive sponsor of the Monet exhibit in 2010, Natixis also supported Musée d’Orsay in the museographic renovation of the Impressionist Gallery, which is due to open this month.
A new setting for the Impressionist Gallery
Musée d’Orsay launched a museographic renovation without precedent since it opened. Natixis decided to support the renovation work of the Museum’s nerve center, i.e. the Impressionist Gallery. Totally redesigned by Jean-Michel Wilmotte, the new gallery makes it possible to:
- display works more prominently by using improved lighting and more colorful picture rails, which will serve to highlight the paintings’ tones;
- provide additional exhibition space for other works, while enhancing visitor comfort and easing circulation.
Some 250 masterpieces by the greatest Impressionist painters – Monet, Degas, Manet, Cézanne, Renoir, Sisley and more – will benefit from this new setting, spread over more than 1,200 m2 of permanent display space.
Anticipation for the reopening of these exhibition spaces has grown as more than 1 million visitors admired the Claude Monet retrospective at the Grand Palais1! This exhibition, for which Natixis was the exclusive sponsor, generated a strong public interest in the entire Impressionist movement.
Making culture accessible to all
Since 2004, Natixis has implemented an active sponsorship policy aimed at helping cultural institutions reveal hidden and inaccessible heritage treasures to the general public. This goal has led to a variety of initiatives.
1 Organised from September 22, 2010 to January 24, 2011 at the Galeries Nationales du Grand Palais by the RMN-Grand Palais and the Musée d’Orsay.
