SAN FRANCISCO, CA.- The Fine Arts Museums
of San
Francisco welcomes the United States debut of Birth of Impressionism:
Masterpieces from the Musée d’Orsay on view at the de Young Museum May
22 to
September 6, 2010. The exhibition includes approximately 100 paintings
from the
Musée d’Orsay’s permanent collection and highlights the work of
William-Adolphe
Bouguereau, Gustave Courbet, Edgar Degas, Edouard Manet, Claude Monet,
Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Alfred Sisley, and James Abbott McNeill Whistler,
among
others. The Musée d’Orsay is lending their most beloved
paintings while
it undergoes a partial closure for refurbishment and reinstallation in
anticipation of the museum’s 25th anniversary in 2011. Birth of
Impressionism
will be followed in the fall of 2010 by Van Gogh, Gauguin, Cezanne, and
Beyond:
Post–Impressionist Masterpieces from the Musée d’Orsay. The de Young
will be the
only museum in the world to host both exhibitions.