Visit free of the modern art museum

Name: Visit free of the modern art museum
Start: 2017-09-16T10:00:00+02:00
End: 2017-09-17T18:00:00+02:00
Location: Musée d’Art moderne

A collection of art representative of period 1850-1970

16 and 17 September 2017Passed

Born the donation to the State of collections gathered(combined) by Pierre and Denise Lévy, this museum, located in an old(former) episcopal palace, shelters a remarkable selection of paintings(paints), sculptures, drawings, glass factories(glass-making) and ceramics raising(drawing up) a peculiar panorama of the common(current) persons over 18 of French art, between 1850 and 1960. Works of Nice, Pointer, Courbet, Czaky, Daumier, Degas, Despiau, Dufy, Friez, Grey, Fresnaye, Maillol, Pool, Marquet, Matisse, Metzinger, Birdseed, Picasso, Rodin, Rouault, Seurat, Soutine, Vallotton, Van Dongen, Vuillard are next(go alongside) to significant sets(groups) devoted to the First Arts (Africa, Oceania) or in the production of André Derain and of Maurice Marinot, both close friends of Lévy.

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.