"Guy Cogeval, who was director of Paris's Musée d'Orsay from 2008 to 2017, died on November 13 at the age of 70. His death, after a long illness, was reported by on November 17. An iconoclastic, and at times controversial, figure in the museum world, Cogeval was an impassioned scholar of 19th-century art whose specialty was the Nabis, a group of French Post-Impressionist painters active in the late 1800s."
"Born in Paris in 1955, Cogeval graduated from the Paris Institute of Political studies in 1977. In 1982 he earned a master's degree in art history, and in 1985 he passed France's competitive entrance exam for training as a curator. He began his curatorial career as an intern in the Orsay's film department. He later worked as an assistant curator at the Museum of Fine Arts in Lyon and then as deputy director of cultural affairs at the Louvre."
"Between 1992 and 1998, Cogeval was director of the National Museum of French Monuments in Paris, where he curated "Italian Renaissance Architecture, from Brunelleschi to Michelangelo" in 1994. The show subsequently traveled to the Palazzo Grassi in Venice, the National Gallery of Art in Washington D.C., and the Altes Museum in Berlin. In 1998, Cogeval was appointed director general of the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts."
Guy Cogeval was born in Paris in 1955 and graduated from the Paris Institute of Political studies in 1977. He earned a master's degree in art history in 1982 and passed France's competitive entrance exam for training as a curator in 1985. He began his curatorial career at the Orsay's film department, later serving at the Museum of Fine Arts in Lyon and as deputy director of cultural affairs at the Louvre. He directed the National Museum of French Monuments (1992–1998), led the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts from 1998, and served as director of Paris's Musée d'Orsay (2008–2017), merging it with the Musée de l'Orangerie and overseeing major gallery remodels and rehanging of collections.
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