Exhibition «André Maire, painter traveller»

Name: Exhibition «André Maire, painter traveller»
Start: 2023-09-16T10:00:00+02:00
End: 2023-09-17T18:00:00+02:00
Location: Musée d’Art moderne

«André Maire, the travelling painter»...

16 and 17 September 2023Passed

Conditions

Free entry

Ville de Troyes / Carole Bell

«André Maire, le peintre voyageur» The life of André Maire (1898-1984) was not always easy. He lost his parents at a very young age, then his brother in the war. His mentor and teacher, Emile Bernard, advised him to go to the East. The discovery of the Angkor Temple will mark him for life. From Indochina to the banks of the Ganges to Egypt and Africa, the painter-explorer travels the world. Armed with paper, pencils and brushes, he seeks inspiration, new exotic motifs, in a quest for beauty and difference. He offers, in compositions with bold perspectives, his dreamlike vision of the magnificence of nature and the sites visited. Depending on the country he is in, his way of painting is different. The ancient landscapes of Egypt are adorned with sepia while the overflowing life of African villages wears the bright colors of gouache. To sketch the mysteries of Angkor in Cambodia, he chose the poetic delicacy of charcoal. A baobab from Senegal, a Buddha from Ceylon, the felouques on the Nile, demand an irreproachable drawing, the dream and imagination do the rest by exaggerating the scales to achieve elegance and touch the viewer.

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.