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© Musée Fabre / Montpellier Agglomération Pavillon du musée Fabre, Montpellier
The Musée Fabre boasts an exceptional collection of non-French paintings from the 17th and 18th centuries. The present exhibition provides an opportunity to rediscover this exceptional heritage, prior to its definitive installation in the context of the renovated, enlarged museum.
National Gallery of Australia, Camberra
Since 1939, the Musée Fabre has pursued an active policy to bring its rich collections of art to a wider international audience. With the museum closed for refurbishment to create a new gallery of modern painting, some of its the finest modern works will go on show at the Musée de l'Orangerie in Paris, and the Kunsthalle in Berne.
© Musée Fabre / Montpellier Agglomération Pavillon du musée Fabre, Montpellier
Few art lovers can claim to match the extraordinary life story of Alfred Bruyas (1821-1876). A passionate collector and exceptional patron of the arts, he devoted his life to amassing one of the world's finest collections of 19th-century European art.
© Musée Fabre / Montpellier Agglomération Archaeological excavations throughout the Americas have revealed the extraordinary diversity and continuity of the continent's native civilisations and cultures, from around 40,000 BC to the present day. However, very few exhibitions in Europe have explored this rich cultural heritage.
Relatively few American artists from the "pre-Pollock" era are known to the European public: Edward Hopper, Georgia O'Keeffe, Walker Evans… Now, for the first time, this exhibition presents a broad panorama of the past 40 years of modern American art, from the New World's introduction to Impressionism through the work of Winslow Holer, to the first great works of Abstract Expressionism (Jackson Pollock, Barnett Newman...), via the unique, solitary figure of Edward Hopper.
Claudio Parmiggiani is one of the finest Italian artists of his generation. Born in 1943, his poetic, universal artistic language has established a lasting presence above and beyond the ephemeral trends embraced by the art world throughout so much of his career.
Born in 1941, Alain Clément settled in Languedoc in the 1960s. His flamboyant, rigorous approach to abstract painting has been developed over the past four decades, with large-scale works combining expressionism and compositional elements, a strong visual appeal, sensitivity and structural power.
Computer-generated images, models, sections, axonometric projections: architects Olivier Brochet, Emmanuel Lajus, Christine Pueyo and Emmanuel Nebout deploy the full panoply of media to present their designs for the future Musée Fabre.
Born in 1926, François Morellet is a leading figure in French abstract art. A founder member of the Groupe de Recherche et d'Actions Visuelles (GRAV) [la Grove Dictionary of Art], he turned early in his career – and before the American Minimalists – to a luminous exploration of line, the nature of the frame, and the nature of the picture itself.