The Paris 2024 Olympics make a great effort to attract athletes, their families and spectators to the many splendid museums the city has to offer. The Trocadero near the Eiffel tower, is the place of the Musée d’art moderne de Paris (MAM) small extract below. A dedicated visit of the permanent exhibition with art works that portray sports is on display during the Olympic season in Paris. Choose your favorite sports and artist and you will find probably an example. People looking for depictions of rowing might like the painting by Raoul Dufy, Bord de Marne, Les canotiers painted in 1925. Almost 100 years later La Marne hosts the rowing competitions of the Olympics again. Raoul Dufy shows us that there is much more to rowing than just the sport or exercise.
