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Elliott Erwitt, Personal Best

More than 130 photos selected as his own favorites by the Magnum Agency photographer and photojournalist whose career has spanned some 60 years.
Daily through April 4th, 2010
Hours: 11 a.m. to 8 p.m. Wed-Sun.
Location: Maison Européenne de la Photographie, 5/7 rue de Fourcy, 4th, Métro: Saint Paul.
Admission: €6.50
Phone Number: 01.44.78.75.00.
Website: www.mep-fr.org

Salon du Dessin 2010

A major annual art fair devoted solely to drawings and watercolors, this year with 39 international galleries showing old masters, modern and contemporary works.
March 24 - March 29, 2010
Hours: 12 p.m. to 8:30 p.m.
Location: Palais de la Bourse, Place de la Bourse, 2nd, Métro: Bourse.
Admission: €14
Phone Number: 01.45.22.08.77
Website: www.salondudessin.com

Robert Doisneau, Du Métier à l’Oeuvre

Image: Le vélo de Tati, 1949. © Atelier Robert Doisneau.

One hundred original prints of Paris and its suburbs by the self-described “fisher of images”, documenting a poetic vision that was much more complex than often thought.
Daily through April 18th, 2010
Hours: 1 p.m. to 6:30 p.m. (11 a.m. to 6 :45 p.m. Saturday.) Closed Monday.
Location: Fondation Henri Cartier-Bresson, 2 impasse Lebouis, 14th, Métro: Gaité.
Admission: €6
Phone Number: 01.56.80.27.00.
Website: www.henricartierbresson.org

TEFAF Maastricht 2010

Image: © Pieter de Vries Texel.

The international art world’s annual rite of spring, and Europe’s largest and most important art and antiques fair, held in the Dutch city on the German-Belgian border. This year 239 galleries from 18 countries will present this ephemeral museum in which every treasure is for sale.
March 12 - March 21, 2010
Hours: 11 a.m. to 7 p.m.
Location: Maastricht Exhibition & Congress Center, Forum 100, Maastricht, The Netherlands.
Admission: €55 including catalog
Phone Number: +31.43.383.83.83.
Website: www.tefaf.com

100 Chefs-d’Oeuvre du Städel Museum

From the private museum in Frankfurt founded by merchant and banker Johann Friedrich Städel, 100 paintings and sculptures by 19th-century artists including Bonnard, Degas, Ensor, Moreau, Munch, Nolde, Redon, Ernst, Klee, Picasso, Vallotton, Vuillard, Maillol and Rodin.
Daily through May 24th, 2010
Hours: 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. (9 p.m. Thursday). Closed Monday.
Location: Fondation de l’Hermitage, 2 rte du Signal, Lausanne, Switzerland.
Admission: 18 Swiss francs
Phone Number: +41.21.312.50.13.
Website: www.fondation-hermitage.ch

Jean Cocteau 1889–1963

Subtitled In the Footsteps of a Magician, a retrospective of the multi-talented artist, writer, director and Parisian personality, with more than 450 paintings, drawings, sculptures, films, posters, photos, ceramics, manuscripts and mementos, along with portraits by friends including Picasso, Man Ray, Jacques-Emile Blanche, Dora Maar and Andy Warhol.
Daily through May 23rd, 2010
Hours: 10:30 a.m. to 7 p.m. Closes at 2 p.m. Mondays.
Location: Palais Lumière, Quai Albert Besson, Evian-les-Bains.
Admission: €10
Phone Number: 04.50.83.15.90.
Website: ville-evian.fr

Frédéric Chopin, La Note Bleue

Honoring the 200th anniversary of the Polish composer’s birth this month, an exhibit focused on the years he spent in Paris, 1831–1849, and his relationship with novelist George Sand (née Aurore Dupin) with paintings, drawings and sculpture by contemporary artists, many of whom were their friends, including Delacroix, Corot, Courbet, Ingres and Ary Scheffer, whose home is now this charming small museum dedicated to Chopin and Sand.
Daily through July 11th, 2010
Hours: 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Closed Monday.
Location: Musée de la Vie Romantique, 16 rue Chaptal, 9th, Métro: Saint-Georges.
Admission: €7
Phone Number: 01.55.31.95.67.
Website: vie-romantique.paris.fr

Yves Saint Laurent

Image: © Alexandre Guirkinger.

A retrospective of the late couturier (1936–2008), with some 300 models spanning his 40-year career, from his start with Christian Dior to his retirement in 2002: tuxedos, safari jackets, filmy black gowns and the brilliant colors of collections inspired by travel—Russia, China, India, Spain, Morocco—and artists including Mondrian, Matisse, Picasso and Van Gogh.
Daily through August 29th, 2010
Hours: 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Closed Monday.
Location: Musée des Beaux-Arts de la Ville de Paris, Petit Palais, Avenue Winston Churchill, Métro: Champs Elysées-Clemenceau,
Admission: €11
Phone Number: 01.53.43.40.00.
Website: petitpalais.paris.fr

Du Greco à Dalí, Les Grands Maîtres Espagnols

Never before shown in Paris, 50 paintings by Spanish artists from the collection of Mexican collector Antonio Pérez Simón, including works by El Greco, Goya, Murillo, Ribera, Sorolla, Picasso, Gris, Miró, Dalí and Tàpies.
March 12 - August 1, 2010
Hours: 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.
Location: Musée Jacquemart-André, 158 blvd Haussmann, 8th, Métro: Miromesnil.
Admission: €10
Phone Number: 01.45.62.11.59.
Website: musee-jacquemart-andre.com

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