A guide to the collection - Musée d'Art Moderne - Ville de Paris

(on the left)
Jean Fautrier
The Jewish
woman, 1943
© Musée d’Art Moderne
/ Roger-Viollet
© ADAGP
Gallery 9
(on the right)
Jean Degottex
E.T.C IV,
30.03.1967, 1967
© Musée d’Art moderne
de la Ville de Paris /
Roger-Viollet
© ADAGP
Gallery 10
Permanent collections Permanent collections
Realist art - Gallery 9
The works on display recreate some of the history and
character of the museum by presenting a meaningful
picture of art in the 1930s, in particular acquisitions made
in 1937. This section, dedicated to Realist art of the 1930s
and 1940s, brings together works by André Derain,
Marcel Gromaire, Francis Gruber as well as a representative
collection of works by Bernard Buffet and Jean Fautrier.
Anton Räderscheidt’s 1928 Self-portrait depicts a dreamlike
figure reminiscent of Magical Realism. This major work
from the German school of New Objectivity was acquired
for the collection in 2007.
Abstract art - Gallery 10
A variety of forms of abstract art are displayed here,
including pure abstract action painting (Hans Hartung,
Pierre Soulages, Georges Mathieu) and new forms of graphic
innovation (Jean Degottex, Mark Tobey, Henri Michaux),
with paintings by Vieira da Silva providing a transition
between abstract and figurative styles.
Étienne-Martin
Gallery
Wink, 1970
© Pierre Antoine
© ADAGP
Étienne-Martin Collection - Gallery 11
This space displays the major gift of fifteen sculptures
by Étienne-Martin made to the museum by l’Oréal.
This is complemented by the generous gift of a large body
of archive material by Madame Marie-Thérèse Martin-Le
Balc’h. The varied range of formats and materials displayed
covers almost the whole of the sculptor’s career, illustrating
the different major series which marked his progression:
early abstract arts, Dwellings, Games and Roots, salvaged
materials and polychromy.