Inside Legendary Creator Guy de Rougemont's Unassuming Compound in the South of France The artist's home bears witness to decades of inspired living Although his career has spanned more than half a century, artist Guy de Rougemont remains something of an enigma. Aristocratic in bearing and by birth, he cuts a dashing...
Pierre Soulages, “painter of black and light,” is a major figure of non-figurative painting, recognized as such since the start of his career after World War II. Born on December 24, 1919, in Rodez (south of France), Soulages, who continues to produce work at a steady pace, is celebrating his...
From December 14, 2019, the Soulages museum will dedicate an exhibition to the abstract creation of women in the 50s in Paris: Women 50s. Over the abstraction, painting and sculpture. The exhibition will present a collection of more than 70 works of rich and varied provenance: loans from artists, individuals, institutions,...
The Mellon Collection of French Art from the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts The exhibition celebrates Paul Mellon and his wife Rachel ‘Bunny’ Lambert, two of the most important, refined patrons of the arts of the twentieth century. The Bano Foundation is forging ahead with the exhibition series designed to present some...
A major figure in postwar lyrical abstraction, French painter Marie Raymond (1908–89) is perhaps best known as the wife of painter Fred Klein and the mother of French Nouveau Réaliste Yves Klein. That perception is wrong, according to Michèle Gazier. “First and foremost, Marie Raymond is an accomplished artist in...
Given that his last retrospective in a French museum dates from 1969, it was time to restore the visibility Hans Hartung (1904–1989) so richly deserves. This exhibition brings a fresh eye to the oeuvre of this major 20th-century artist and his crucial role in art history: Hartung was a forerunner...
Many of the paintings that Picasso did over a period of some four years (summer 1926-spring 1930) form a cohesive group, which Christian Zervos would later (1938) as “Tableaux magiques”. With these works principally figure paintings – Picasso opened a new chapter in his oeuvre, probing a deep emotional dimension,...
The exhibition at the Centre Pompidou focuses on works produced by Bacon in the last two decades of his career. it consists of sixty paintings (including 12 triptychs, in addition to a series of portraits and self-portraits) from major private and public collections. From 1971 to 1992 (the year of...
The exhibition at the Centre Pompidou focuses on works produced by Bacon in the last two decades of his career. it consists of sixty paintings (including 12 triptychs, in addition to a series of portraits and self-portraits) from major private and public collections. From 1971 to 1992 (the year of...
In his sculptures as in his paintings, Alberto Giacometti concentrated throughout his career on an almost unique motif: the representation of the human being, which he considered as the raison d'être of the artistic gesture. The exhibition and the work "Histoire de corps" focus on the figures of the female nude,...