Post-Impressionism was never a unified movement. It was a loose constellation of artists working in France between roughly 1886 and 1910, each pushing past Impressionism in a different direction. Where the Impressionists had pursued fleeting light and optical sensation, the Post-Impressionists wanted something more permanent: structure, emotion, symbolic…
Works of Post-Impressionism are held in 267 museums worldwide, including National Gallery of Art, Musée d'Orsay, and Van Gogh Museum.
Key artists
Work by these painters is spread across the museums listed below.
🇦🇲 Armenia
1 museum
Also in ArmeniaNational Gallery of Armenia (39)
🇩🇰 Denmark
2 museums
Also in DenmarkStatens Museum for Kunst (32)Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek (28)
🇫🇷 France
8 museums
Also in FranceMusée d'Orsay (570)Musée Picasso (266)Musée National d'Art Moderne (148)Musée Toulouse-Lautrec (62)Musée des Beaux-Arts de la ville de Paris (49)Musée des Beaux-Arts de Quimper (35)Picasso Museum (28)Musée d'art moderne de Paris (27)
🇩🇪 Germany
1 museum
Also in GermanyBerggruen Museum (33)
🇮🇱 Israel
1 museum
Also in IsraelIsrael Museum (46)
🇯🇵 Japan
3 museums
Also in JapanNational Museum of Western Art (48)Pola Museum of Art (34)Matsukata Collection (27)
🇳🇱 Netherlands
4 museums
Also in NetherlandsVan Gogh Museum (366)Kunstmuseum Den Haag (302)Kröller-Müller Museum (137)Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen (75)
🇷🇺 Russia
2 museums
Also in RussiaHermitage Museum (138)Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts (28)
🇪🇸 Spain
4 museums
Also in SpainMuseu Picasso (121)Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum (44)Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía (31)Fundación Almine y Bernard Ruiz-Picasso (29)
🇸🇪 Sweden
1 museum
Also in SwedenNationalmuseum (79)
🇨🇭 Switzerland
3 museums
Also in SwitzerlandKunsthaus Zürich (112)Kunstmuseum Basel (41)Foundation E.G. Bührle Collection (39)
🇬🇧 United Kingdom
6 museums
Also in United KingdomNational Museum Cardiff (137)National Gallery (119)Tate (83)National Galleries Scotland (48)Aberdeen Archives, Gallery and Museums collections (42)Fitzwilliam Museum (41)
🇺🇸 United States
14 museums
Also in United StatesNational Gallery of Art (2477)Metropolitan Museum of Art (288)Sidney Janis Gallery (173)Museum of Modern Art (162)Art Institute of Chicago (136)Barnes Foundation (113)Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum (110)Philadelphia Museum of Art (105)Museum of Fine Arts Boston (40)Cleveland Museum of Art (35)Yale University Art Gallery (35)Los Angeles County Museum of Art (31)Norton Simon Museum (30)Princeton Art Museum (30)
217 more museums hold Post-Impressionism works with smaller collections, not listed here.
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Where can I see Post-Impressionism paintings?
Post-Impressionism works are held in 267 museums worldwide, including National Gallery of Art, Musée d'Orsay, and Van Gogh Museum.How many museums have Post-Impressionism artworks?
267 museums worldwide hold works by Post-Impressionism artists.Which is the best museum for Post-Impressionism?
National Gallery of Art in Washington D.C. holds the largest Post-Impressionism collection with 2477 works.