Jean-Joseph Benjamin-Constant “The Favourite of the Emir.” Auguste Rodin “The Thinker.”
Lynn Légaré “Born in Quebec City in 1960 (Le fou du roi Necklace).”
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Lalla Essaydi “The Sultana” (from series “Women of Morocco”).
trolling through an art gallery is a great way to while away a few hours between meetings when you are on a lonely business trip. But there are galleries and then there are galleries. Te Montreal
Museum of Fine Arts (MMFA) is rightfully one of Canada's most famous museums. Founded in 1860 as the Art Association of Montreal, today it is a veritable treasure trove spanning four pavilions with a fifth estimated to open in 2016. You'll find the Musée within Le Mille
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Carré Doré (the Gold Square Mile) at the foot of Mount Royal on Sherbrooke Street in New Montreal. Te neighbourhood, also referred to as Uptown, is located in west-cen- tral downtown Montreal. MMFA was one of the first museums in North
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sion from paintings, sculptures, graphic arts, photographs and decorative art objects to music. Te Michal and Renata Hornstein Pavilion is housed in the classic original building erected in 1912. Tis sober but majestic building houses art from world cultures. Te Liliane and David M. Stewart Pavilion, a modernist concrete building which backs onto the original pavilion, is the home of nearly 900 deco- rative arts and design objects that include furniture, glass, silverware, textiles, ce- ramics and industrial design pieces from different countries and time periods. In 1991, a third building, the Jean-Noël Des- marais Pavilion, was built on the south side of Sherbrooke Street to house international art. Te most recent addition to the MMFA, the Claire
America to amass an encyclopedic collection of 41,000 permanent pieces of art from antiquity to modern time. Visitors can expect to view every form of artistic impres-
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and Marc Bourgie Pavilion, opened in 2011. Home to Que- bec and Canadian art, the venue is located in the restored Erksine and American Church. Te building, an artistic
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Photo courtesy of Montreal Museum of Fine Arts.
Courtesy of the United States Naval Academy Museum.
Photo © Lalla Essaydi / Courtesy Edwynn Houk Gallery, New York
Photo courtesy of Montreal Museum of Fine Arts.
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