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What a Wonderful World: Masterworks from the Musée d'Orsay
Around 110 works from the Musée d'Orsay spanning painting, sculpture, decorative arts and photography, including Monet, Van Gogh and Renoir.
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Preview: written before the show opened
Millet's The Gleaners (1857) and Van Gogh's Starry Night over the Rhône (1888) both leave Paris for Ueno. They head a loan of around 110 works from the Musée d'Orsay, timed to the Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum's 100th anniversary and the Orsay's 40th.
The selection runs from Realism through Impressionism and Post-Impressionism to Symbolism, across paintings, sculpture, crafts and photographs, with Renoir, Monet, Gauguin, Denis and Signac alongside the headliners. Millet's gleaners, bent double over the stubble for leftover grain, are you in the Tobu Ikebukuro depachika at 7:30pm when the half-price stickers go on.
Tickets are ¥2,400 at the door and ¥2,200 in advance, and resale is banned. Tokyo Cheapo warns of serious queues and advises buying ahead and going on a weekday. Fridays run until 20:00 (last entry 19:30). Closed Mondays with a few exceptions, and 22 December to 3 January.
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Millet's The Gleaners and Van Gogh's Starry Night over the Rhône head around 110 loans from the Musée d'Orsay, Realism through Symbolism. A greatest-hits show for first-timers to French painting; Tokyo Cheapo warns of serious queues and advises booking ahead.
Look for
Starry Night over the Rhône
Van Gogh's 1888 night view from the Rhône, lent by the Musée d'Orsay and billed as one of the show's headline pieces.
The Gleaners
Millet's 1857 painting of peasants stooping to pick up what the harvest left behind, travelling from Paris alongside the Van Gogh.
Good for
- Evening Visits
- First-Timers
- Out-Of-Town Guests
With kids
Under-18s and high school students are free. On the third Saturday of each month and the Sunday after, up to two Tokyo-resident parents with a child under 18 pay ¥1,200, at the ticket counter only, with ID showing their address.
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Image credits
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- What a Wonderful World: Masterworks from the Musée d'OrsayCourtesy of Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum
- Tokyo Metropolitan Art MuseumJoe Mabel, CC BY-SA 2.0
- National Museum of Western ArtJoyofmuseums, CC BY-SA 4.0
- National Museum of Nature and ScienceDaderot, CC0
- Tokyo National MuseumWiiii, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0