Free discovery of the collections of the Museum of Modern Art

Name: Free discovery of the collections of the Museum of Modern Art
Start: 2023-09-16T10:00:00+02:00
End: 2023-09-17T18:00:00+02:00
Location: Musée d’Art moderne

The Museum of Modern Art was born from the donation of nearly 2,000 works in 1976 by Pierre and Denise Lévy, a couple of Trojan industrialists and collectors....

16 and 17 September 2023Passed

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Olivier Frajman

The Museum of Modern Art was born from the donation of nearly 2,000 works in 1976 by Pierre and Denise Lévy, a couple of Trojan industrialists and collectors. The painter André Derain and the Troy glassmaker Maurice Marinot, close friends of the Lévys, are widely represented, alongside great artists of modernity such as Courbet, Braque, Gris, Soutine, Modigliani, Dufresne, La Fresnaye, Buffet, Balthus or De Staël. Reopened after a major renovation, the museum is unveiled in a first phase of prefiguration to be discovered on the ground floor, on the 2nd floor and in its garden redesigned as a park of sculptures.

About the location

Musée d’Art moderne

14 place Saint-Pierre, 10000 Troyes

Aube
Grand Est

The modern art museum was created following donation in 1976, big(great) collectors, Pierre and Denise Lévy, Trojan industrialists of the textile(textile industry). Installed(Settled) in the old(former) episcopal palace (16th and 17th centuries) in 1982, the collection illustrates someone big moments with art in France since environment(middle) from the 19th century to 1960s. She(It) understands(includes) paintings(cloths) of Honoré Daumier, Gustave Courbet, of works of Nabis as Edward Vuillard or Pierre Bonnard, the exceptional whole Fawn movement: André Derain, Georges Braque, Maurice Vlaminck, Othon Friesz or else the School of Paris represented by Chaïm Soutine or Amedeo Modigliani Derain dominates this set(group) with about 80 paintings(cloths). Other big(great) signatures, Henry Matisse, Raul Dufy, Robert Delaunay, Nicolas de Staël, Balthus, Georges Rouault supplement this panorama of the French painting(paint) of the first half of the 20th century. The sculpture is represented well with Edgar Degas, Aristide Maillol or else Joseph Czaky, Ossip Zadkine, Charles Despiau, unique(only) bronze set(group) of Derain without forgetting Picasso and his famous Madman (1905), for whom the poet Max Jacob rested(posed). Art deco glass factories(glass-making) of Maurice Marinot, glass factories(glass-making) (more than 140 rooms(parts,plays) from 1912 till 1937) which train(form) to a collection of exception themselves, reveal the completely innovative work of this artist of Trojan origin and friend of donors. Some ceramics of Emile Lenoble, André Metthey, or of the workshop(studio) of Madoura-Vallauris are added to it. The primitive(initial) art, certain rooms(parts,plays) of which belonged to artists such Derain or to big(great) amateur traders (Ambroise Vollard, Félix Fénéon, Paul Guillaume) gives a perspective, wanted by the donors, on relations between modern art and Africain art.