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Robert Ryman. Le regard en acte. Archéologie How did they treat theirCatalogue of the Orangerie Museum exhibition. The question is never: what to paint, but only: how to paint. Robert Ryman (1930 2019), an American painter active in New York from the 1950s, initially intended to pursue a career as a musician. To earn a living, he worked as a guard at the Museum of Modern Art, where his interest in painting grew through contact with modern European masters (Monet, Czanne, Matisse) and new American references (Rothko,