Following the success of the exhibition “Icons of Modern Art. The Shchukin Collection,” the Fondation Louis Vuitton will be staging a collaborative exhibition with New York’s MoMA this coming autumn, possibly including bringing many of MoMA’s masterpieces by French Impressionist and Post-Impressionist artists to Paris.

There’s not much information yet available about the elusive exhibition, but it was confirmed by Le Monde in October.

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Speculation has already begun as to which pieces will be on view this autumn, with Pablo Picasso’s ground-breaking work Les Demoiselles d’Avignon (1907) being mentioned as a possibility.

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Other top pieces from MoMA’s collection include works by Vincent van Gogh, including Starry Night and The Olive Trees, and paintings by French artists such as Paul Cézanne, Claude Monet, Paul Gauguin, and Pierre Bonnard, to name but a few.