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© Musée Fabre / Montpellier Agglomération Throughout the second half of the 20th century, the art dealer Jean Fournier – who died recently – played a significant role in the history and development of French painting. Active in Paris from 1954 to 2006, he was an important bridge-builder between the art worlds of France and the United States, and between successive generations of artists.
© Musée Fabre / Montpellier Agglomération 17th- and 18th-century Venetian drawings in French public collections
The Musée du Louvre is organising a series of exhibitions of previously unseen works, highlighting the rich collections of 17th- and 18th-century Italian drawings in French public museums.
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© Musée Fabre / Montpellier Agglomération Fondation de l'Hermitage, Lausanne
Since 2003, the Musée Fabre has embarked on an ambitious policy of expansion and refurbishment of its exhibition space, with the aim of showcasing its extraordinary collections to the best possible effect. The Fondation de l'Hermitage in Lausanne has chosen to take advantage of the museum's closure during this renovation programme, to present a selection of works from museum's superb collection.
© Musée Fabre / Montpellier Agglomération Pavillon du musée Fabre, Montpellier
French painting forged its international identity as a distinctive school in the 17th century thanks to the works of powerful personalities such as Poussin, Vouet, Bourdon, La Hyre, or Stella, all of whom propounded a concept of ideal beauty based on the Golden Age of Antiquity.
© Musée Fabre / Montpellier Agglomération Pavillon du musée Fabre, Montpellier
Germaine Richier (Grans, 1902 - Montpellier, 1959) trained at the Ecole des Beaux Arts in Montpellier before becoming a pupil of Bourdelle.
Tokyo, Ibaraki, Yamanashi, Osaka, Nagasaki, Japan
Works selected for this touring exhibition to Japan produce a comprehensive overview of French paintings form the core collections of the Musée Fabre, with works by some of the finest French painters, tracing the history of the French school from Poussin in the 17th century, to the late 19th century, and Matisse.
© Musée Fabre / Montpellier Agglomération Spain: Madrid, Bilbao.
Today's cultural institutions are constantly looking for new ways to open their collections to the widest possible public, to innovate and reflect new movements, to engage in constantly-changing, living dialogues.
© Musée Fabre / Montpellier Agglomération Pavillon du musée Fabre, Montpellier
While the Musée Fabre undergoes comprehensive renovation and rebuilding work another, less public project is also underway in the museum's workshops, namely the restoration of the entire collection. Now, for the first time, this work will be visible to the public, from 24 February to 15 May 2005, at the Pavillon du Musée Fabre. A team of specialists will be working to complete the restoration of Louis Béroud's painting Au Salon Carré du Louvre.
Pavillon du musée Fabre, Montpellier
The Pavillon du Musée Fabre presents a major exhibition devoted to the work one of the world's greatest contemporary artists, Zao Wou-Ki, with a selection of 60 paintings and a number of photographs retracing his extraordinary artistic journey from his beginnings in China to his reception as a member of the Académie des Beaux-Arts in Paris, on 23 November 2003.
Pavillon du musée Fabre, Montpellier
The pioneering modern artist Frantisek Kupka (1871-1957) was one of the very first painters to make the leap into abstraction, with Kandinsky, Picabia and Léger.