On show
Zurbarán. Reinventing a masterpiece
December 5, 2024 - March 2, 2025
For the first time, the three paintings by Francisco de Zurbarán of Saint Francis standing and mummified, held in the Musée des Beaux-Arts de Lyon, the Museu Nacional d'Art de Catalunya and the Museum of Fine Art of Boston, will be brought together.
The first part of the exhibition will explore the driving forces and sources of this singular creation, through a group of works by Zurbarán and his contemporaries. The second part focus on the prodigious reception of these iconic works by artists of the 19th, 20th and 21st centuries, through paintings, sculptures, drawings, photographs and pieces of haute couture.
Fred Deux (1924-2015)
12 July 2024 - 30 March 2025
The museum is paying tribute to Fred Deux to mark the centenary of his birth. It presents a series of works that entered its collections following the major exhibition devoted to the artist in 2017: The World of Fred Deux.
Fred Deux, cartoonist, spoken-word poet, writer and author of a cult book, La Gana, is a singular artist, irreducible to fashions and trends.
Simon Hantaï (1922-2008)
12 July 2024 - 30 March 2025
Born in Hungary, Simon Hantaï went into exile in France in 1948. The radical nature of his approach has made him one of the most important artists of the second half of the 20th century, and a major figure in abstraction.
Best known for what the artist calls ‘folding as a method’, initiated in 1960, his work unfolds in successive moments of remarkable diversity. From Les Mariales (1960-1962) onwards, Hantaï painted ‘blindly’ a surface that only revealed itself when unfolded and stretched on its frame. From then on, he used this method in very different ways for each series of paintings.
