{"id":141208,"date":"2025-11-19T06:30:14","date_gmt":"2025-11-19T06:30:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/141208\/"},"modified":"2025-11-19T06:30:14","modified_gmt":"2025-11-19T06:30:14","slug":"guy-cogeval-former-director-of-pariss-musee-dorsay-has-died-at-70","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/141208\/","title":{"rendered":"Guy Cogeval, former director of Paris\u2019s Musee d\u2019Orsay, has died at 70"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tGuy Cogeval<\/a>, who was director of Paris\u2019s Mus\u00e9e d\u2019Orsay from 2008 to 2017, died on November 13 at the age of 70. His death, after a long illness, was reported by Le Monde<\/a> on November 17.<\/p>\n

\n\tAn iconoclastic and at times controversial figure in the museum world, Cogeval was an impassioned scholar of 19th-century art whose specialty was the Nabis, a group of French Post-Impressionist painters active in the late 1800s.<\/p>\n

\n\tBorn in Paris in 1955, Cogeval graduated from the Paris Institute of Political studies in 1977. In 1982 he earned a master\u2019s degree in art history, and in 1985 he passed France\u2019s competitive entrance exam for training as a curator.<\/p>\n

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\n\tHe began his curatorial career as an intern in the Orsay\u2019s film department. He later worked as an assistant curator at the Museum of Fine Arts in Lyon and then as deputy director of cultural affairs at the Louvre.<\/p>\n

\n\tBetween 1992 and 1998, Cogeval was director of the National Museum of French Monuments in Paris, where he curated \u201cItalian Renaissance Architecture, from Brunelleschi to Michelangelo\u201d in 1994. The show subsequently traveled to the Palazzo Grassi in Venice, the National Gallery of Art in Washington D.C., and the Altes Museum in Berlin.<\/p>\n

\n\tIn 1998, Cogeval was appointed director general of the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts. While there, he organized a number of exhibitions that later traveled to Paris, including \u201cHitchcock and Art\u201d (2000), \u201cErotic Picasso\u201d (2001), and the much lauded \u201c\u00c9douard Vuillard, Master of Post-Impressionism\u201d (2003).<\/p>\n

\n\tFollowing his arrival at the Mus\u00e9e d\u2019Orsay in 2008, Cogeval implemented major changes to the institution. As president of the Mus\u00e9e d\u2019Orsay and the Mus\u00e9e de l\u2019Orangerie, he merged the two museums into a single establishment. He also oversaw a major remodeling of 80 percent of the Orsay\u2019s galleries and a rehang of most of its collection.<\/p>\n

\n\tCogeval mounted important traveling exhibitions of Impressionist and Post-Impressionist paintings during his tenure at the Orsay, which is known for holding the world\u2019s largest collection of Impressionist and Post-Impressionist art. More eclectic shows, often organized with or by guest curators, included exhibitions devoted to crime and punishment, the male nude, and Impressionism and fashion.<\/p>\n

\n\tBut even as Cogeval garnered high marks for his curating and for his fiscal oversight of the institution, he was increasingly criticized for his management style. In 2017, just one year into his third term as director, he was replaced by Laurence des Cars, who is now director of the Mus\u00e9e du Louvre.<\/p>\n

\n\tSince that time, Cogeval had been continuing his research into the Nabis and Symbolism.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Guy Cogeval, who was director of Paris\u2019s Mus\u00e9e d\u2019Orsay from 2008 to 2017, died on November 13 at…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":141209,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[437,434,435,436,438,146,87287,85,46,50259],"class_list":{"0":"post-141208","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-arts-and-design","8":"tag-arts","9":"tag-arts-and-design","10":"tag-artsanddesign","11":"tag-artsdesign","12":"tag-design","13":"tag-entertainment","14":"tag-guy-cogeval","15":"tag-il","16":"tag-israel","17":"tag-musu00e9e-dorsay"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141208","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=141208"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141208\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/141209"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=141208"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=141208"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=141208"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}