A retrospective exhibition of M. K. Čiurlionis (1875–1911) was held at the Musée d’Orsay in Paris from November 6, 2000, to February 4, 2001.

The exhibition of M. K. Čiurlionis’s works was held under the patronage of President of Lithuania Valdas Adamkus and President of France Jacques Chirac.

The curators of the exhibition are Henri Loyrette, director of the Musée d’Orsay, and Osvaldas Daugelis, director of the M. K. Čiurlionis National Art Museum. The Lithuanian Embassy in France and Ugnė Karvelis, Lithuania’s ambassador to UNESCO, provided tremendous assistance in organizing the exhibition.

The exhibition featured 97 works by M. K. Čiurlionis:

"Funeral Symphony". VII from the cycle of 7 paintings (Čt 112), 1903
"Serenity" (Čt 180), 1903/4
Triptych "Rex" (Čt 103-105), 1904/5
"Truth" (Čt 152), 1905
Cycle "Creation of the World" (Čt 181-193), 1905/6
Cycle "Sparks" (Čt 72-74), 1906
"Forest" (Čt 92), 1906
"Mists" (Čt 94), 1906
"Mountain" (Čt 174), 1906
"Butterflies" (Čt 82), 1906
"Flowers" (Čt 81), 1906/7
Cycle "Zodiac" (Čt 52-63), 1906/7
Triptych "Raigardas" (Čt 85-87), 1907
"Spring motif" (Čt 77), 1907
"Spring" (Čt 201), 1907
"Spring" (Čt 78), 1907
"Spring" (Čt 200), 1907
Cycle "Winter" (Čt 44-51), 1907
Triptych "My Road" (Čt 69-71), 1907
"Etude" (Čt 204), 1907
"Summer" (Čt 146), 1907
Cycle "Sonata II (Sonata of the Spring)" (Čt 26, Čt 27, Čt 38, Čt 29), 1907
"Fantasy" (Čt 76), 1907/8
Triptych "Fantasy" (Čt 23-25), 1908
"Fugue". From the diptych "Prelude. Fugue" (Čt 89), 1908
Cycle "Sonata No. 3 (Sonata of the Serpent)" (Čt 8-11), 1908
Cycle "Sonata No. 5 (Sonata of the Sea)" (Čt 12-14), 1908
Cycle "Sonata No. 6 (Sonata of the Stars)" (Čt 2-3), 1909
Cycle "Sonata No. 7 (Sonata of the Pyramids)" Allegro and Scherzo (Čt 4-5), 1909
"Fairy Tale (Fairy Tale of the Kings)" (Čt 35), 1909
"Fairy Tale (Castle Fairy Tale)" (Čt 6), 1909
"Fortress (Fortress Fairy Tale)" (Čt 33), 1909
"Thor" (Čt 17), 1909
"Prelude (The Knight Prelude)" (Čt 16), 1909
"Lightning" (Čt 18), 1909
"The Offering" (Čt 172), 1909
"The Altar" (Čt 1), 1909
"Angel (Angel Prelude)" (Čt 15), 1909
"Lithuanian Graveyard" (Čt 7), 1909
"Rex" (Čt 134), 1909
"Composition" (Čg 129), 1907/8
"Vignette" (Čg 164), 1908
"Vignette (Little Ships)" (Čg 138), 1909
"Rex" (Čg 134), 1909
Vignette for the folk song “Run, the Mowings” (Čg 142), 1909
Vignette for the folk song “The Dark Night Will Fall” (Čg 140), 1909

More about the exhibition: HERE

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