Yan Pei-Ming was a youth in China when he first stumbled upon the work of Gustave Courbet, whose imagery he found in a black-and-white propaganda book. When Yan settled in France in 1980, he was finally able to study the work of Courbet, the pioneering realist who had fascinated him from the get-go. On the 200th anniversary of Courbet’s birth, the Petit Palais exhibits the two painters “face to face,” with 15 monumental works by Yan speaking to 10 Courbets. —E.C.
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Yan Pei-Ming: Courbet
When
Oct 12, 2019 – Jan 19, 2020
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Yan Pei- Ming, “L’artiste à 58 ans, Gustave Courbet,” 2019. Courtesy of Petit Palais.