Exhibition: Sarah Lipska, the ballet of birds

Name: Exhibition: Sarah Lipska, the ballet of birds
Start: 2022-09-17T10:00:00+02:00
End: 2022-09-18T18:00:00+02:00
Location: Musée Blanche Hoschedé-Monet

Monographic exhibition of the drawing cabinet.

17 and 18 September 2022Passed

Registration

musee@vernon27.fr 02 32 64 79 05

In 1986, the Vernon Museum received a generous donation of works by Sarah Lipska, whose sole subject was the bird, a fetish animal she likes to observe at the Jardin des plantes. As of July 8, 2022, the colourful birds of Sarah Lipska temporarily leave their reserve to perform in the drawing room of the museum.
After 1945, Sarah Lipska imagined costumes and decorations in lush colors for an unfinished project of Ballet des Oiseaux with Serge Lifar, famous Ukrainian dancer and choreographer and former soloist of the Ballets Russes. Part of these studies and preparatory drawings are presented in this exhibition.

About the location

Musée Blanche Hoschedé-Monet

12 rue du pont, 27200 Vernon

Eure
Normandie

The Vernon Municipal Museum was founded in 1862 thanks to the donation of François de Brécourt’s collection of some 2,000 specimens of naturalized birds from Normandy and distant lands. Located in the town hall, the museum was named Alphonse-Georges-Poulain in 1966, after the archaeologist and curator who had taken care of the museum and its collections since 1922\. It moved in 1983 to this former mansion of the Lemoine family of Belle-Isle in the heart of the historic center of Vernon. Honouring the impressionist creation on the Seine at the gates of Eure and Normandy, from Claude Monet to Pierre Bonnard, the museum was renamed the Hoschedé-Monet White Museum in 2024\. You will discover an important collection of landscapes of the Val de Seine and the great natural sites of Normandy, signed by the artists of the famous Hoschedé-Monet-Butler family and American and foreign artists of the colony of Giverny. The museum is also distinguished by its unique collection of animal art, benefit