On the occasion of the European Heritage Days, the museum will open its doors free of charge to (re)discover the poet’s house and the temporary exhibition Azur: poems and cyanotypes.
Created by English scientist John Herschel in 1842, the year Mallarmé was born, and developed by botanist Anna Atkins, the cyanotype is an ancient monochrome photographic printing process using blue, also known as “cyan”, which gave it its name.
Blue is also present in the poet’s work. Indeed, it was in 1864 that Stéphane Mallarmé wrote the poem L'Azur, sky which symbolizes for him the quest for beauty and the poetic ideal that he fears not being able to reach. In this collective exhibition, the creations of Agnès Clairand, Aline Héau and Kyano illustrate the most beautiful poems of Mallarmé and his contemporaries in order to immortalize nature in art and poetry.