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Our Mission 

 

The mission of the American Friends of Musée de Montmartre (AFMM) is to raise awareness among Americans and provide additional financial support, on a tax-deductible basis, for the Musée’s activities.

 

The AFMM supports exhibitions, educational activities, and additions to the permanent collection of the Museum. The AFMM receives contributions through a 501(c)(3) organization, Myriad USA.

About Friends

About the AFMM Friends

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Montmartre is a layered city. The ebullient, artistic world of Degas, Erik Satie, Matisse, Modigliani, Renoir, Suzanne Valadon, and Toulouse-Lautrec is still there, hidden beneath the Montmartre of present day, but we need the Musée to access it. 

 

The AFMM are the lionhearted champions of the Musée. We cherish this period of art history, of course, but we believe that Montmartre is more than history. Montmartre represents a time of collaboration, creation, and celebration. It is this spirit - this cabaret spirit - that the AFMM honors in its support for the Musée and in all of its programming. 

The AFMM exists to allow those who do not live in France or speak French to experience the Musée and the magical, artistic world it unlocks. I invite you to learn more about our publication Number 12 – a reference to the Musée’s address on the Rue Cortot and its storied nature, once housing the studios of Renoir, Utrillo, and Valadon – AFMM membership, and our existing patrons. 

AFMM Liaison

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PATRICIA NEBENZAHL, Liaison

Patricia Nebenzahl, a native of Chicago, is an art historian, who has lived in Paris since 2008. She has worked in the archives of the Musée de Montmartre as a volunteer for ten years. She was an iconographic researcher for the documentary film about Montmartre through the eyes of Suzanne Valadon on view at the Musée de Montmartre and accessible on the AFMM web page.

 

Patricia completed a dual degree in the History of Art and French, spending her junior year in Paris at the École de Louvre and the Sorbonne. After a post-graduate year at Sotheby’s Institute of Art in London, she worked at both Sotheby’s and Christies and taught at NYU in the Appraisal Studies program. Patricia has conceived and conducted programs in the art world for Wall Street firms such as Bear Stearns and Morgan Stanley in New York, Boston, Chicago, and Paris. She returned to academia in 2005 to work on her doctorate on the Parisian avant-garde art market at the beginning of the 20th century at the University of Manchester, UK for three years, then moved to Paris to continue her studies and follow her dream to live in Paris.

With Gratitude to our Friends

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BENEFACTORS ($4K+)

Timothy Hanford

Jacqui Michel and David E. Weisman

PATRONS ($1K+)

Lise Adkins and Tom Murphy

Susan Bernardo

Adrienne and Dennis Hensley

Cinnamin Malone

Jocelyn Nebenzahl

Patricia Nebenzahl

Barbara Smith

Jonathan Weisman

Dominique and Gary Zuercher

SPONSORS ($500+)

Jeff Atlas

Maureen Macfadden

Kristin Pittman

Vicki and Robert Weisman

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