Shanghai hosts a master class in French art

Artworks by 29 modern masters of French art, such as Pablo Picasso, Claude Monet and Henri Matisse, are on exhibition at Bund One Art Museum in Shanghai from Oct 16 to Feb 20.

From Monet, Bonnard to Matisse: Masterpieces of Modern French Painting consists of 80 authentic artworks from the collection of the Bemberg Foundation, a nonprofit institution in France. All of the paintings are on public exhibition in the Chinese mainland for the first time. Covering many art genres such as Impressionism, Symbolism, Cubism and so on, the exhibition is aimed at presenting the development trajectory of French modern painting from the end of the 19th century to the beginning of the 20th century, according to Philippe Cros, curator and director of the Bemberg Foundation.