Gauguin

Claire Bernardi is a French art historian and curator. As a specialist in nineteenth- and twentieth-century painting, she graduated from the École du Louvre and is a former student of the Institut national du patrimoine. After working at the Centre national des arts plastiques from 2009 to 2012, she joined the Musée d’Orsay as curator in charge of late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century paintings. In 2022, she was appointed director of the Musée de l’Orangerie by the French Ministry of Culture. As head of the museum, she has developed a program that creates a dialog between its historic collections, notably Water Lilies by Claude Monet, and contemporary perspectives.