Sylvie Patin Explained

Sylvie Patin
Birth Name:	Sylvie Gache-Patin
Birth Date:	11 June 1951
Nationality:	French
Alma Mater:	Paris Nanterre University, École du Louvre
Occupation:	conservator-restorer

Sylvie Patin (born Sylvie Gache-Patin on 11 June 1951) is a French conservator-restorer of cultural heritage at Musée d'Orsay and art historian specialised in Impressionism.^[1]

Career

Sylvie Patin was born on 11 June 1951. She has a degree in historical geography and a master's degree in history at the Paris Nanterre University, then she joined École du Louvre to continue her study.^[2]

She did a museum internship at the Musée Marmottan Monet in 1972 and passed the competitive examination of the musées de France in 1973. From 1974 to 1975, she was a trainee curator at Galerie nationale du Jeu de Paume and Musée de l'Orangerie, then a full-time curator from 1976 to 1980. She became curator of the Musée d'Orsay in 1980, chief curator in 1991, and finally a general curator in 2006. She retired in 2016.^[3]

In 2010, Patin curated an exhibition of Monet at the Grand Palais.^[4] She has published several books on the impressionist painter Claude Monet, such as French: Le Musée intime de Monet à Giverny (2016),^[5] a book presents the study of Monet's garden and house in Giverny;^[6] and French: Monet : « un œil... mais, bon Dieu, quel œil ! » (1991), a copiously illustrated pocket book belonging to the collection “Découvertes Gallimard”, which has been translated into seven languages, including English.^[7] On 20 September 2020, Patin was invited to a based on her book French: Monet : « un œil... mais, bon Dieu, quel œil ! ». The meeting was organised in a former florist shop at the Place de l'Église of Illiers-Combray, during a book fair held in the commune.^[8]

Publications

Publications by Patin

• In the Country: 19th Century Musée d’Orsay, Éditions Hazan, 1986
• Monet : « un œil... mais, bon Dieu, quel œil ! », collection « Découvertes Gallimard » (nº 131), série Arts. Éditions Gallimard, 1991, new edition in 2010^[9]
  • Monet: The Ultimate Impressionist, ‘New Horizons’ series, Thames & Hudson, 1993 (UK edition)
  • Monet: The Ultimate Impressionist, “Abrams Discoveries” series. Harry N. Abrams, 1993 (U.S. edition)
• Impression... impressionnisme, collection « Découvertes Gallimard Texto » (nº 4). Éditions Gallimard, 1998
• L’impressionnisme, La Bibliothèque des Arts, 2002
• Claude Monet au musée d’Orsay, RMN, 2004
• Le Musée intime de Monet à Giverny, Éditions Gourcuff Gradenigo, 2016
  • Monet’s Private Picture Gallery at Giverny, Éditions Gourcuff Gradenigo, 2016

In collaboration

• With Anne Distel & Michel Hoog, L’impressionnisme au musée du Jeu de Paume, F. Hazan, 1977
• AA.VV., Monet (Grand Palais Paris exhibition catalogue): 1840–1926, Harry N. Abrams, 2010

External links

• • Bibliographie de Sylvie Patin at her official website

Notes and References

1. Web site: Sylvie Patin : Correspondant de la section de gravure (élue en 2006) . . . 2018-02-18 . fr.
2. Web site: BIOGRAPHIE : Sylvie PATIN . . sylviepatin.free.fr . 2018-02-18 . fr.
3. Web site: Monet intime et collectionneur . Goetz . Adrien . Adrien Goetz . 2016-06-05 . . 2018-02-18 . fr.
4. Web site: Sylvie Patin . . . 2018-02-18 . fr.
5. Web site: Sylvie Patin : " Monet avait une belle âme " . . actu.fr . 2018-02-18 . fr.
6. Web site: Le Musée intime de Monet à Giverny . . gourcuff-gradenigo.com . 2018-02-18 . fr.
7. Web site: OUVRAGES : S. Patin, Monet, " un œil, mais quel œil ! " . . sylviepatin.free.fr . 2018-02-18 . fr.
8. Web site: CAFÉ LITTÉRAIRE Sylvie Patin dimanche 20 septembre 2020 à Illiers-Combray Ancienne boutique de fleuriste Illiers-Combray . . 2020 . unidivers.fr . fr . 6 October 2020.
9. Web site: Monet : " un œil... mais, bon Dieu, quel œil ! ", collection Découvertes Gallimard (n° 131) . gallimard.fr . 2018-02-18.