The city’s museums pay homage to Pierre Gy with a unique exhibition bringing together, for the first time, 200 paintings and drawings by the artist.

Having lived and worked between the south of the Haute-Marne (Prauthoy) and the Aube, this too little-known painter made his work evolve from figuration to abstraction, from the 1950s to the 1990s, in the wake of the main currents of modern art. Pierre Gy was a connoisseur of ancient masters, artists of the Paris School such as Nicolas de Staël or Vieira da Silva and Chinese painters such as Zao Wou-Ki. His artistic background bears witness to this heritage. He also reveals a strong relationship to nature, landscapes and elements, which were the source of his work. To transcribe into words his emotions as well as his pictorial ambition, he liked to remember: «I look at what I dream of seeing». This exhibition proposes you to follow the sensitive path of this painter during fifty years of creation.