Audrey Azoulay, Minister of Culture and Communication, has appointed Cécile Debray as director of the Musée de l'Orangerie, on the proposal of Laurence des Cars, President of the Public Institution of the Museums of Orsay and the Orangerie.
Chief Curator of Heritage, internationally recognized specialist of Matisse, Cécile Debray was since 2008 in charge of modern art collections at the National Museum of Modern Art - Centre Pompidou and curator of many major exhibitions Balthus Villa Medici, Rome (2015), Duchamp, the painting itself in 2014 at the Centre Pompidou, The adventure of Stein, Cézanne, Matisse, Picasso at the national galleries of the Grand Palais in 2011 or Lucian Freud, The Workshop in 2010 at the Centre Pompidou.
Cécile Debray is currently working on the exhibition Bacon / Nauman, Face to Face which will open in June at the Fabre Museum in Montpellier and will also be curator of the exhibition Derain, 1904-1914, the radical decade presented in October at the Centre Pompidou. She will co-curate the exhibition Dada and African art programmed at the Orangerie Museum from 17 October 2017.