On the 160th anniversary of the birth of the great sculptor Paul Troubetzkoy, the exhibition that enchanted Paris arrives in Milan.

The Musée d'Orsay, the Galleria d’Arte Moderna Milano, and CMS.Cultura organize an exhibition dedicated to the artist, which will take place at the Musée d’Orsay in Paris from September 30, 2025, to January 11, 2026, and in Milan at the Galleria d’Arte Moderna from February 27 to June 28, 2026.

The exhibition will reconstruct the unusual journey of this Italian artist, a Russian prince by birth, adopted by Paris, who at the same time embarked on a brilliant career in the United States. Thanks to his great talent as a portraitist, he was sought after by a cosmopolitan elite, celebrities, all of Paris, and even the early stars of American cinema. His life was marked by decisive encounters and friendships with writers such as Tolstoy in Russia, George Bernard Shaw in Paris, with whom he shared a vegetarian lifestyle, particularly unusual for that time. In addition to the portraits that made him famous, the exhibition will highlight his animalistic sculpture. With works from the Museo del Paesaggio in Verbania, which houses one of the most significant collections of the artist, and from important Italian and foreign collections such as the Musée d’Orsay and the Petit Palais in Paris, the San Francisco Museum of Fine Arts, the Museo Sorolla in Madrid, the Detroit Institute of Art, or the Galleria d'Arte Moderna e Contemporanea in Rome, just to name a few.

For the first time exhibited in Milan, some fabulous paintings by Bolodini, Sorolla, Repin in dialogue with the refined works of the great sculptor who captured the spirit of the Belle Époque.