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inventing cloisonnism at twenty, sharing it with Gauguin, watching Gauguin take the credit, and spending decades arguing about who invented Symbolism

Where to see Emile Bernard
Ranked by works you can see in person.
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73 works
Van Gogh Museum
Amsterdam, Netherlands
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25 works
Musée d'Orsay
Paris, France
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9 worksMusée des Beaux-Arts de Quimper
Quimper, France
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10 works
Indianapolis Museum of Art
Indianapolis, United States
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7 works
Metropolitan Museum of Art
New York City, United States
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5 works
Centre national des arts plastiques
Paris, France
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4 works
Museum of Fine Arts Boston
Boston, United States
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4 works
Art Institute of Chicago
Chicago, United States
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4 works
Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum
Madrid, Spain
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3 works
Wallraf–Richartz Museum
Cologne, Germany
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3 works
National Museum of Western Art
Tokyo, Japan
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3 works
Musée d'Art Moderne de Fontevraud
Fontevraud, France
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3 worksKunsthalle Bremen
Bremen, Germany
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2 works
Musée d'art moderne de Paris
Paris, France
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2 works
Norton Simon Museum
Pasadena, United States
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2 works
Kunstmuseum Basel
Basel, Switzerland
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2 works
Nantes Museum of Arts
Nantes, France
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2 worksMusée départemental de l'Oise
Beauvais, France
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2 works
Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum
Glasgow, United Kingdom
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2 works
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
Houston, United States
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1 works
Clark Art Institute
Williamstown, United States
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1 works
Munich Central Collecting Point
Munich, Germany
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1 works
Unterlinden Museum
Colmar, France
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1 works
Tokyo Fuji Art Museum
Hachiōji, Japan
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1 works
Matsukata Collection
Tokyo, Japan
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1 works
Library-museum of the Comédie-Française
Paris, France
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1 works
The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art
Kansas City, United States
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1 works
Aargauer Kunsthaus Collection
Aarau, Switzerland
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1 works
Clemens Sels Museum Neuss
Neuss, Germany
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1 works
Yamanashi Prefectural Museum of Art
Kōfu, Japan
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1 works
Hammer Museum
Los Angeles, United States
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1 works
Rijksmuseum
Amsterdam, Netherlands
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1 works
Musée Toulouse-Lautrec
Albi, France
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1 works
Museum of Modern Art
New York City, United States
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1 works
Harvard Art Museums
Cambridge, United States
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1 works
Israel Museum
Jerusalem, Israel
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1 works
Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum
St. Louis, United States
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1 works
Des Moines Art Center
Des Moines, United States
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1 works
Musée Thomas-Henry
Cherbourg-Octeville, France
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1 works
Los Angeles County Museum of Art
Los Angeles, United States
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1 works
Vanderbilt Museum of Art
Nashville, United States
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1 works
Musée National d'Art Moderne
Paris, France
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1 works
San Diego Museum of Art
San Diego, United States
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1 works
Gothenburg Museum of Art
Gothenburg, Sweden
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1 works
Museum Folkwang
Essen, Germany
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1 works
Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco
San Francisco, United States
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1 works
Vatican Museums
Vatican City, Vatican City
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1 works
Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek
Copenhagen, Denmark
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1 works
Philadelphia Museum of Art
Philadelphia, United States
4 more museums hold works by Emile Bernard with smaller collections, not listed here.
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Where can I see Emile Bernard paintings?
Emile Bernard's works are held in 54 museums worldwide, including Van Gogh Museum, Musée d'Orsay, and Musée des Beaux-Arts de Quimper.How many museums have Emile Bernard paintings?
54 museums worldwide hold works by Emile Bernard.Which is the best museum to see Emile Bernard?
Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam holds the largest collection with 73 works.
Sources
Where to See guide aggregates verified holdings of Emile Bernard's works across the following collections.
- [1] academic The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica, Émile Bernard | Post-Impressionist, Symbolist, Synthetist Used for: biography.
- [2] book guggenheim-gauguindecorativ00gaug Used for: biography.
- [3] book Post-impressionism : cross-currents in European painting Used for: biography.
- [4] book Post-impressionism : cross-currents in European painting Used for: biography.
- [5] museum Emile Bernard - Crucifixion, also called Christ, from "L'Estampe Originale" Used for: museum holdings.
- [6] museum Émile Bernard | MoMA Used for: biography.
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