# Simone Fattal: Des villes au fond d'un lac (Cities at the Bottom of a Lake)

The first Paris museum exhibition of Lebanese-American artist Simone Fattal, born in 1942, at the Musée d'Art Moderne. Around a hundred works span more than fifty years, from early landscape paintings and ceramic figures inspired by Mediterranean myth to collages, watercolours and ink drawings, arranged non-chronologically.

- Type: Museum
- When: on view September 18, 2026 – January 24, 2027
- Where: Musée d'Art Moderne de Paris, 11 avenue du Président Wilson, 75116 Paris, Trocadéro
- Artists: Simone Fattal
- Part of: [Paris Art Week 2026](https://artweekguide.com/weeks/paris-2026)
- Event's own page: https://www.mam.paris.fr/fr/expositions/exposition-simone-fattal
- On Art Week Guide: https://artweekguide.com/events/simone-fattal-des-villes-au-fond-d-un-lac-cities-at-the-bottom-of-a-lake

## From the organiser

First Paris museum exhibition of Lebanese-American artist Simone Fattal (born 1942), with around a hundred works spanning more than fifty years – early landscape paintings, ceramic figures inspired by Mediterranean myth, collages, watercolours and ink drawings – arranged non-chronologically.

## Also on Friday 18 September

- **Until Jan 24, 2027** · [Kerry James Marshall: The Histories](https://artweekguide.com/events/kerry-james-marshall-the-histories) — Museum at Musée d'Art Moderne de Paris, Trocadéro. A museum exhibition marking the first showing in France devoted to the American painter Kerry James Marshall. It brings together about seventy works from 1980 to the present, arranged in eleven groups and including eight new paintings made for the show. Organised by the Royal Academy of Arts, London, with the Kunsthaus Zürich.
- **Until Dec 19** · [Hommage à Jean Fournier](https://artweekguide.com/events/hommage-a-jean-fournier) — Show at Galerie Dina Vierny (53 rue de Seine), Saint-Germain-des-Prés. An exhibition at Galerie Dina Vierny in Saint-Germain-des-Prés, honouring Jean Fournier, a leading dealer of Parisian abstraction from 1964 to 2006. It shows work by artists he championed, including James Bishop, Stéphane Bordarier and Jean Degottex.