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Where to find Exhibitions in 2023 / 2024 around the globe displaying the Most Beloved French Impressionism Artworks

Below is a comprehensive list of wonderful art exhibitions showcasing the beloved impressionism artworks of the famous artists such as Monet, Degas, Morisot, Pissarro, Renoir, Cassatt & many more. The information has been divided into four sections. Exhibitions in :

  • Europe
  • Far East & Australia
  • Middle East
  • North America

I hope that where ever you are in the world that you manage to see one of these exhibitions! I look forward to your comments.

Exhibitions of the French Impressionism Artworks throughout Europe

Exhibition: Impressionists on Paper: Degas to Toulouse-Lautrec

When: 25 November 2023 – 10 March 2024
Where: The Royal Academy Of Arts – The Gabrielle Jungels-Winkler Galleries, London

Don’t we all associate the French Impressionists to soft colored, magical paintings? Well this unusual exhibition places the spotlight on their less-known, ground-breaking paper works, many of which have not yet been seen by the public! This new exhibition brings together 77 paper artworks of Degas, Cézanne, Morisot, Van Gogh & many others.

In the whirl of modernity of the late 19th-century France, Impressionist and Post-Impressionist artists radically transformed the future direction of art. They moved away from what they though was dull traditional art, and painted every day scenes with bright colors and short, choppy brushstrokes. But it wasn’t just through their paintings. In a subtle but seismic shift, the Impressionists also used their radical techniques on paper. These paper artworks include sketches, pastels, watercolors, temperas & gouaches. Some of these artworks were preparatory drafts and others became beautiful artworks in their own right.

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Impressionists on Paper: Degas to Toulouse-Lautrec
Impressionists on Paper: Degas to Toulouse-Lautrec showing at the Royal Academy of the Arts, Lodon

Exhibition: Color and Light – The Legacy of Impressionism

When: 20 October, 2023 until 25 February, 2024
Where: Ateneum Art Museum, Helsinki, Finland

Many Finnish artists moved to Paris in the late–19th century. Although Impressionism had revolutionized the art world by that time, it did not visibly influence the Finnish artists until much later.

This new exhibition at Ateneum Art Museum (Helsinki) explores the profound influence of the French Impressionists on Finnish art. Spanning the years from 1860 to 1916, the exhibition features impressionism masterpieces by renowned artists such as Edgar Degas, Claude MonetCamille Pissarro, Auguste Renoir and Paul Signac. These iconic works vividly illustrate the transformative impact of the impressionists on artists, such as Magnus Enckell, Alfred William Finch, Ellen Thesleff and Tyko Sallinen, who later shaped Finnish Colourism.

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Alfred William Finch pointillism painting

Alfred William Finch pointillism painting

Exhibition: Impressionists on Paper: Degas to Toulouse-Lautrec

When: 25 November 2023 until 10 March 2024
Where: Royal Academy, London

Degas, Cézanne, Renoir & Van Gogh. We all know their paintings, but it’s their radical works on paper we put the spotlight on in this ground-breaking exhibition.

In the whirl of modernity that was late 19th-century France, Impressionist and Post-Impressionist artists radically transformed the future direction of art. But it wasn’t just through their paintings. In a subtle but seismic shift, they lifted the status of works on paper – drawings, pastels, watercolours, temperas, gouaches – from something preparatory that you left in a studio, to artworks in their own right.

In this rich exhibition, we bring together around 70 works on paper by leading Impressionist and Post-Impressionist artists whose innovation would challenge traditional attitudes, transform the future direction of art and ultimately pave the way for later movements like Abstract Expressionism.

Edgar Degas painting on paper entitled: Dancer Seen from Behind, 1873
Edgar Degas painting on paper entitled: Dancer Seen from Behind, 1873 / Collection of David Lachenmann.

Exhibition: Manet / Degas

When: From 28 March until July 23rd, 2023
Where: Musée d’Orsay , Paris, France

Édouard Manet (1832-1883) and Edgar Degas (1834-1917) both played a pivotal role in the new painting of the 1860s-80s. This exhibition, which brings together the two painters in the light of their contrasts, forces us to take a new look at their real bond. It shows the heterogeneous and conflicting nature of pictorial modernity and reveals the value of Degas’ collection, in which Manet occupied a larger place after the latter’s death.

This exhibition is organized by the Musée d’Orsay and the Musée de l’Orangerie and the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York where it will be presented from September 2023 to January 2024.

Edouard Manet - The Balcony (1868-1869)
Edouard Manet – The Balcony (1868-1869) – Public Domain

Exhibition: Cezanne

When: 5 October 2022 until 12 March 2023
Where: Tate Modern, London

‘With an apple, I will astonish Paris’, Cezanne once claimed. Leaving his native Aix-en-Provence for the French capital in his 20s, this is precisely what he did. Cezanne’s still lifes, landscapes and paintings of bathers were to give licence to generations of artists to break the rule book. The history of painting was never to be the same again.

Focusing on the many tensions and contradictions in Cezanne’s work, this exhibition seeks to understand the artist in his own context, as an ambitious young painter proudly from the Mediterranean South, yet eager to make it in metropolitan Paris. Featuring many works shown for the first time in the UK, the show will follow his struggle between seeking official recognition and joining the emerging impressionists before relentlessly pursuing his own unique language. We will witness an artist wrestling with what it means to be a modern painter while remaining deeply sceptical about the world he lived in, from political unrest to a continually accelerating way of life.

Exhibition is a joint effort of the Tate Modern and the Art Institute of Chicago.

Paul Cézanne paintings entitled: The Basket of Apples - 1926 - Art Institute of Chicago
Paul Cézanne – The Basket of Apples, 1926 – Art Institute of Chicago

Exhibition: Van Gogh and the Avant-Garde: Along the Seine

When: 14 May until 4 September 2023
Where: Art Institute of Chicago

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When: 13 October 2023 until 14 January 2024
Where: Van Gogh Museum

Two impressive art museums, Art Institute of Chicago and the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam, are working together to curate this major art exhibition. It focuses on the post-impressionist artists Van Gogh, Georges Seurat, Paul Signac and Emile Bernard.

Unlike the Impressionists who in the 1870s had spent significant time in tourist locations south of Paris along the Seine, these artists preferred the northwestern suburbs around Asnières. This region was once a popular spot for recreation and relaxation but increasingly became industrialized with coal and gas facilities in the last decades of the 19th century.

However the industrialization did not stop them from experimenting together with broken brushstrokes, contrasting colors & creating an innovative style of painting. Their canvases show how they captured industrialized suburbs, painting the newly built bridges, embankments, factories, parks, and villages.

Painting to Georges Seurat entitled: Bathers at Asnières, 1883
Bathers at Asnières, 1883 by Georges Seurat / The Art Institute of Chicago

Permanent Exhibition: Monet to Picasso, The Batliner Collection

Where: Albertina Museum, Vienna

The Albertina owns one of Europe’s most important compilations of Modernist art, many of which were donated by one of the greatest art collectors Herbert Batliner.

This permanent exhibition starts with the 19th century French artists belonging to the Impressionism and Post-Impressionism movements. This includes artworks of Degas, Cézanne, Toulouse-Lautrec, and Gauguin.

Further highlights include examples of German Expressionism, with the groups of Brücke and Der Blaue Reiter, and the art of New Objectivity, with works by Wacker, Sedlacek, and Hofer. An in-depth focus on Austrian art comprises works by Kokoschka and paintings by Egger-Lienz. The great diversity of the Russian avant-garde is represented by paintings by Goncharova, Malevich, and Chagall.

The exhibition ends with numerous art pieces of Pablo Picasso, showcasing his many styles such as his early realism, and his later and more daring cubism, neoclassism & surrealism artworks.

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Still Life with Guitar - Pablo Picasso Cubism Period
Still Life with Guitar – Pablo Picasso

Exhibition: Impressionism – Franco-German Encounters

When: 29 October 2021 until 31 December 2023
Where: Hamburger Kunsthalle, Hamburg, Germany

This beautiful exhibition contains more than 80 artworks, including paintings, pastels, sculpture of the most prominent French and German impressionists of the 19th century.

Impressionism is generally associated with France and with the iconic impressionist giants such as Edouard Manet, Claude Monet or Auguste Renoir. We also associate this movement with their whimsical, vivid and colourful portrayal of ordinary life and landscapes. In Germany, the movement developed a little later in time and quite independently. When Impressionism lost importance in France, its country of birth, with the outbreak of World War One, in Germany Impressionist tendencies, especially in the context of art academies, persisted until the 1920s.

The exhibition aims to present the artworks of Impressionism, highlighting both the differences between the German and French representatives, and their common features. At the same time, it seems important to inquire into what themes the painters on the right and left of the Rhine were concerned with, where their main impulses came from, what interactions can be traced visually and historically. 

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German Impressionist Max Liebermann
German Impressionist Max Liebermann

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“Not-to-be-missed” North America Exhibitions of the French Impressionism Artworks

Exhibition: Revolutionaries: The Impressionist & Post Impressionist Exhibition

Where: M.S. Rau,  New Orleans, USA
 When: October 22, 2022 until January 7, 2023

 Few artistic movements have had such a lasting impact as the Impressionists and Post-Impressionists. These artists shocked the art world by rebelling against classical art of their time & embracing new techniques and modern subjects.

This exhibition brings together paintings from the 19th and early 20th centuries in order to trace the evolution of the impressionism movement. Beginning with the naturalistic landscapes of the Barbizon school, the show explores the transience of early Impressionism and its experimentation with plein-air painting. The Impressionist legacy will be traced through the work of the Neo-Impressionists and Post-Impressionists, particularly in their scientific methodologies and avant-garde use of color.

Opening this fall at M.S. Rau’s French Quarter gallery, the selling exhibition features paintings that represent the key ideals of these movements, while also illustrating the diversity within them. From the early plein-air landscapes of Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot; to Claude Monet’s light-filled landscapes and Pierre-Auguste Renoir’s urban portraits; to Raoul Dufy and Kees van Dongen’s explosive use of vibrant color, these works capture the cultural moment of their age, defining on canvas the new modern era that had swept through the Western world.

Exhibition: Modigliani Up Close

Where: Barnes Foundation, Philadelphia
When: October 16, 2022 until January 29, 2023

Modigliani Up Close explores Amedeo Modigliani’s working methods and materials. Building on research that began in 2017, with a major retrospective at Tate Modern, this exhibition takes a close look at how Modigliani created his artworks. New scholarship by specialists across Europe and the Americas informs a detailed investigation of the artist’s unique style, casting new light on his practice, in an exhibition that brings together important pieces from museum collections.

Featured in the show will be artworks from the Barnes Foundation’s own collection and other major public and private collections around the world.

Amedeo Modigliani artwork entitled: Young Woman in a Yellow Dress
Amedeo Modigliani painting entitled: Young Woman in a Yellow Dress

Exhibition: Impressionism to Modernism: The Keithley Collection

When: September 11, 2022 until January 8, 2023
Where: The Cleveland Museum of Art, USA

This stunning exhibition celebrates the extraordinary gift and promised gift of art made by Clevelanders Joseph P. and Nancy F. Keithley to the Cleveland Museum of Art. In March 2020, the Keithleys gave more than 100 works of art to the museum.

The Keithleys’ collection focuses on Impressionist, Post-Impressionist, and modern European and American paintings. Among the highlights are five paintings by Pierre Bonnard; four each by Maurice Denis and Édouard Vuillard; two each by Milton Avery, Georges Braque, Gustave Caillebotte, Joan Mitchell, and Félix Vallotton; and individual pictures of outstanding quality by Henri-Edmond Cross, Vilhelm Hammershøi, Henri Matisse, Pablo Picasso, Camille Pissarro, and Andrew Wyeth.

Among the works on paper are six watercolors by John Marin, five drawings by Bonnard, and a spectacular pastel by Eugène Boudin. Also included in the exhibition is a selection of European and American decorative arts. T

The Keithleys also collected Chinese and contemporary Japanese ceramics. In the exhibition, Asian ceramics will be shown alongside Western paintings and drawings to echo the harmonies created by the Keithleys, who enjoyed thoughtfully juxtaposing the works in their collection.  

Pierre Bonnard painting entitled: The Dessert
The Dessert 1921 by Pierre Bonnard

Exhibition: A Modern Vision: European Masterworks From The Phillips Collections

When: October 8, 2022 until January 22, 2023
Where: North Carolina Museum of Art, USA

This exhibition features more than 50 paintings by the impressionists and post-impressionists, such as Edgar Degas, Vincent van Gogh, Edouard Manet, Claude Monet, Pablo Picasso, and Paul Cézanne from the world-renowned Phillips Collection.

The Phillips Collection was America’s first museum of modern art, opening its doors in Washington, DC, in 1921 and installing works by different artists together to connect their art across time and place.  This exhibition aims to continue the message of Duncan Phillips that the art museum’s purpose is to bring together the “congenial spirits among artists from different parts of the world and from different periods of time” to demonstrate “that art is a universal language.”

“To collect works of art is good, to collect only what one particularly likes is better, and to collect only such works as mingle agreeably together is to make the best kind of collection.” — Duncan Phillips.

Van Gogh post-impressionism painting
Van Gogh post-impressionism artwork

Exhibition: Monet to Morisot: The Real and Imagined in European Art

When: February 11, 2022 until May 21, 2023
Where: Brooklyn Museum of Art, USA

This exhibition features 19th and 20th century artworks by European artists. Monet to Morisot: The Real and Imagined in European Art  focuses on a period of significant societal transformation, when artistic techniques, subject matter, and patronage underwent profound changes.

The “real and imagined” focus of the exhibition offers an evocative and flexible lens through which to consider the artworks across five interrelated themes, unbound by chronology, and to encourage critical questions: What is real and what is imagined in works that assert and reflect views of gender, class, labor, colonialism, and nature? Who produces these frames of reference, and for whom? These questions also remind us that the traditional canon of European art history is both imagined and real. It is a construct imagined by and serving a narrow, self-designated constituency, but it has had a very real impact on what has been collected and displayed in museums.

Presented are approximately ninety works by Claude Monet, Gustave Courbet, Berthe Morisot, Francisco Oller, Henri Matisse, Pablo Picasso, Yves Tanguy, and Vasily Kandinsky, among others.

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Claude Monet painting called: the Doge's Palace
Claude Monet (French, 1840–1926). The Doge’s Palace, 1908. (Brooklyn Museum)

Exhibition: True Nature: Rodin and the Age of Impressionism

When: November 12, 2022 until March 26, 2023
Where: Museum of Fine Arts, Saint Petersburg, Florida, USA

True Nature: Rodin and the Age of Impressionism presents works by one of the most celebrated sculptors of all time, side-by-side with remarkable paintings by his renowned contemporaries. Rodin (1840-1917) created dramatic works that are instantly recognizable, and pervade our collective cultural consciousness.

This exhibition includes more than 60 of Rodin’s masterpieces, ranging from intimately-scaled marble statues to monumental bronzes. It offers a remarkably comprehensive look at the artist, placing him within the context of the profound artistic, cultural, and social changes occurring at the end of the nineteenth century in France. True Nature also explores Rodin’s desire for academic recognition, even as he remained at the forefront of the avant-garde alongside the Impressionists.

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Must See Exhibitions of Impressionism Artworks, Australia

Exhibition: Pierre Bonnard

When: was scheduled to June 5, 2020 – October 4, 2020 but has been moved to the winter 2023
Where: National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne

This wonderful exhibition will focus on the colorful artworks of the French post-impressionist Pierre Bonnard. The setting of the exhibition will be designed by Iranian-French architect and designer India Mahdavi.

Here you will get to view around 150 Pierre Bonnard post-impressionism artworks, spanning his artistic career from the late nineteenth century until the first half of the twentieth century. This extensive collection have been brought together from some of the best art museums around the world, including Musee D’Orsay, Tate in London, the Museum of Modern Art in New York, and the National Gallery of Art in Washington DC.

Pierre Bonnard Post-Impressionism Artwork of Paris
Pierre Bonnard Post-Impressionism Artwork entitled: Paris in the morning

In addition, there will be other artworks displayed from the late 19th and early 20th century, allowing you to get a glimpse into 19th century Paris during the belle epoque era.

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Fabulous Exhibitions of Impressionism Artworks in the Middle East

Exhibition: Pathway to Modernity

When: October 12, 2022 until February 5, 2023
Where: Louvre Abu Dhabi, Saadiyat Island

The Louvre Abu Dhabi Impressionism exhibition will feature around 150 important impressionist masterpieces. It will be one of the largest, most significant Impressionist exhibitions ever held outside of France.

You will see artworks of all the famous masters such as Manet, Degas, Monet, Pissarro, Renoir, Cézanne. The masterpieces will be accompanied by etchings, costumes, film and photography.

The exhibition features more than 100 paintings, 40 drawings and prints, 20 photographs and five dresses from the epoch, as well as a contemporary video installation. The exhibition is mainly drawn from Musée d’Orsay impressionist collections.

The focus is to understand & explore why impressionism was so radical during its time and how it paved the way for future artistic movements. Was Impressionism more than a mere artistic rebellion but perhaps a new ways of seeing, making art and even living?

The Floor Scrapers, 1875 by Gustave Caillebotte
The Floor Scrapers, 1875 by Gustave Caillebotte

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