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Faure Museum (Aix-les-Bains)
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The Faure Museum is an art museum situated at Aix-les-Bains
in France
in the department of Savoie. It is a museum of France, according to the law n°2002-5 of January 4, 2002. It was founded in 1949 and comprised initially artworks from the private collection of Doctor Jean Faure (1862–1942), bequeathed to the city. The Faure Museum possesses the second collection in France of works from Rodin and the second collection of impressionist paintings of France.
paintings and sculptures, gathered along with his Parisian frequentations and particularly with the merchant of Parisian art André Shoeller.
(33 sculptures and studies)
(with painters close by impressionism, as those of the romanticism, post-impressionism and symbolism), was gathered, for most of them by Doctor Faure, and further enriched with time by new acquisitions.
One can admire works of painters such as: Corot, Boudin
, Jongkind, Ravier, Puy
, Cézanne, Sisley
, Pissarro
, Degas, Bonnard
, Vuillard
, Lebourg, Lebasque
, Marquet
, Robert Louis Antral
, Charles Cottet, Jules Desbois, Edmond Aman-Jean, John Singer Sargent
, Victor Vignon, Constant Troyon, Stanislas lépine and also Adolphe Monticelli, Georges Michel, Jean Victor Bertin...
Here some works of the museum:
The museum Faure organizes five temporary expositions per year. Here below a list of expositions having been organized within the museum:
. Two pictures of high values disappeared, one by Camille Pissarro
and one by Renoir
. May 2, 2003, the Curator of the museum, André Liatard, was warned by Sotheby's
New York of the sale of a picture of Pissarro entitled Le marché aux poissons (monotype of 20 x 15 cm) that by vigilance consulted the basis of international data of the Art Loss Register
. The sale was then blocked at the request of the Curator. An investigation started. It showed Emile Guelton had sold the painting
at a gallery of art of San Antonio for 6 to 7 000 $. This salesman was known for flights of works of art. Currently, the city of Aix-les-Bains
stretched to recover the stolen good. The duality of the legislations of the United States and France in the matter being complex, the city decided to propose a sum of 4 750 € to recover the picture and compensate the current owner in the US. The New York court should soon take a decision. In case of acceptance, the picture will be able to be recovered at the embassy of the United States in Paris.
Aix-les-Bains
Aix-les-Bains is a commune in the Savoie department in the Rhône-Alpes region in south-eastern France.It is situated on the shore of Lac du Bourget, by rail north of Chambéry.-Geography:...
in France
France
The French Republic , The French Republic , The French Republic , (commonly known as France , is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe with several overseas territories and islands located on other continents and in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans. Metropolitan France...
in the department of Savoie. It is a museum of France, according to the law n°2002-5 of January 4, 2002. It was founded in 1949 and comprised initially artworks from the private collection of Doctor Jean Faure (1862–1942), bequeathed to the city. The Faure Museum possesses the second collection in France of works from Rodin and the second collection of impressionist paintings of France.
Building
The Faure Museum is installed in a villa of Italian style, The Villa des Chimères (Villa of the Pipe Dreams). It was constructed in 1902. This building is of Genoese style from the 19th century. It possesses an entry surround by two columns. A border was painted to decorate his frontispiece and represents stylized pipe dreams. The public have access to with the handicapped norms. The circulation within the museum is adapted to the wheelchairs in the entire rooms entirety.Garden
The museum proposes a freely accessible garden to the public. There are several artworks in the garden among which a statue of Alfred Boucher and a statue of Mars Vallett, Enfants sous la neige (Children under the snow).Collections
The Faure Museum shelters the collections constituted by Doctor Faure, between the two world wars, composed of impressionistImpressionism
Impressionism was a 19th-century art movement that originated with a group of Paris-based artists whose independent exhibitions brought them to prominence during the 1870s and 1880s...
paintings and sculptures, gathered along with his Parisian frequentations and particularly with the merchant of Parisian art André Shoeller.
Sculpture
The Faure Museum possesses the second collection in France of works of RodinRodin
- People :* Auguste Rodin , French sculptor, for whom is named:** The Musée Rodin in Paris, France** The Rodin Museum in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA** The Rodin Gallery in Seoul, South Korea** Rodin , a crater on the Moon...
(33 sculptures and studies)
Paintings
A remarkable collection of paintings concerning the impressionismImpressionism
Impressionism was a 19th-century art movement that originated with a group of Paris-based artists whose independent exhibitions brought them to prominence during the 1870s and 1880s...
(with painters close by impressionism, as those of the romanticism, post-impressionism and symbolism), was gathered, for most of them by Doctor Faure, and further enriched with time by new acquisitions.
One can admire works of painters such as: Corot, Boudin
Eugène Boudin
Eugène Boudin was one of the first French landscape painters to paint outdoors.Boudin was a marine painter, and expert in the rendering of all that goes upon the sea and along its shores...
, Jongkind, Ravier, Puy
Jean Puy
Jean Puy was a French Fauvist artist. He studied architecture in Lyon and painting with Jean-Paul Laurens at l'Académie Julian between 1897 and 1898. He met Henri Matisse and other like-minded artists when he transferred to the l'Academie Carriere in 1899...
, Cézanne, Sisley
Alfred Sisley
Alfred Sisley was an Impressionist landscape painter who was born and spent most of his life, in France, but retained British citizenship. He was the most consistent of the Impressionists in his dedication to painting landscape en plein air...
, Pissarro
Camille Pissarro
Camille Pissarro was a French Impressionist and Neo-Impressionist painter born on the island of St Thomas . His importance resides in his contributions to both Impressionism and Post-Impressionism, as he was the only artist to exhibit in both forms...
, Degas, Bonnard
Pierre Bonnard
Pierre Bonnard was a French painter and printmaker, as well as a founding member of Les Nabis.-Biography:...
, Vuillard
Édouard Vuillard
Jean-Édouard Vuillard was a French painter and printmaker associated with the Nabis.-Early years and education:...
, Lebourg, Lebasque
Henri Lebasque
Henri Lebasque was born at Champigné . His work is represented in French museums, notably Angers, Geneva , Lille , Nantes, and Paris...
, Marquet
Albert Marquet
Albert Marquet was a French painter, associated with the Fauvist movement.-Life and work:Marquet was born in 1875 at Bordeaux. In 1890 he moved to Paris to attend the Ecole des Arts Decoratifs, where he met Henri Matisse. They were roommates for a time, and they influenced each other's work...
, Robert Louis Antral
Robert Louis Antral
Robert Antral was a French painter and printmaker, mainly of etchings. He won the Prix Blumenthal in 1926 and the Croix de guerre for his bravery in World War I.-Museum:...
, Charles Cottet, Jules Desbois, Edmond Aman-Jean, John Singer Sargent
John Singer Sargent
John Singer Sargent was an American artist, considered the "leading portrait painter of his generation" for his evocations of Edwardian era luxury. During his career, he created roughly 900 oil paintings and more than 2,000 watercolors, as well as countless sketches and charcoal drawings...
, Victor Vignon, Constant Troyon, Stanislas lépine and also Adolphe Monticelli, Georges Michel, Jean Victor Bertin...
Here some works of the museum:
- Judith Gautier de John Singer Sargent
- Paysage à Montgeron, Camille Corot
- Vue de Bonnières, Paul Cézanne
- Plage à Trouville, Eugène Boudin
- Pommier sous le soleil, Camille Pissarro
- L'écuyère, Pierre Bonnard
- Danseuses mauves, Edgar Degas
- La Seine à Argenteuil (1872), Alfred SisleyAlfred SisleyAlfred Sisley was an Impressionist landscape painter who was born and spent most of his life, in France, but retained British citizenship. He was the most consistent of the Impressionists in his dedication to painting landscape en plein air...
Other
- A body of memories of the stays in Aix-les-Bains of the poet LamartineAlphonse de LamartineAlphonse Marie Louis de Prat de Lamartine was a French writer, poet and politician who was instrumental in the foundation of the Second Republic.-Career:...
, in particular the reconstruction suggestive of his room in the pension Perrier where he lived in 1816 at the time of his meeting with Julie Charles. - A collection of earthenware’s and of ceramics, coming from the first museum of Aix-les-Bains, founded in 1872 by the painter and engraver Ludovic Napoléon Lepic, friend of Degas.
- An eclectic collection of paintings and sculptures of the 17th to 20th century including Foujita, Fantin-Latour, HayezFrancesco HayezFrancesco Hayez was an Italian painter, the leading artist of Romanticism in mid-19th-century Milan, renowned for his grand historical paintings, political allegories and exceptionally fine portraits.-Biography:...
, CarpeauxJean-Baptiste CarpeauxJean-Baptiste Carpeaux was a French sculptor and painter.Born in Valenciennes, Nord, son of a mason, his early studies were under François Rude. Carpeaux entered the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in 1844 and won the Prix de Rome in 1854, and moving to Rome to find inspiration, he there studied the works of...
, Alfred BoucherAlfred BoucherA French sculptor, Alfred Boucher , mentor to Camille Claudel and friend of Auguste Rodin.Born in Bouy-sur-Ovin , he was the son of a farmhand who became the gardener of the sculptor Chantalle van Zanten, who, after recognizing Boucher's talent, opened his studio to him.He won the Grand Prix du...
, and BaryeBaryeThe barye , or sometimes barad, barrie, bary, baryd, baryed, or barie, is the centimetre-gram-second unit of pressure. It is equal to 1 dyne per square centimetre....
.
Expositions temporaries
- 1987 : Jean-Michel Alberola
- 1999 : Julien Bouvier
- 2000 : Claude-Max LochuClaude-Max LochuFrench artist, painter and designer, Claude-Max Lochu was born in 1951 in Delle in Territoire de Belfort, Franche-Comté and completed his degree at the École des Beaux-Arts of Besançon...
- 2001 : Catherine Viollet
- 2004 : Henriette Deloras
- 2006 : 12 artists around Michel ButorMichel Butor-Life and work:Michel Marie François Butor was born in Mons-en-Barœul. He studied philosophy at the Sorbonne, graduating in 1947. He has taught in Egypt, Manchester, Salonika, the United States, and Geneva...
- 2007 : Around Guernica, preparatory drawings from the painter Picasso for his monumental picture GuernicaGuernica (painting)Guernica is a painting by Pablo Picasso. It was created in response to the bombing of Guernica, Basque Country, by German and Italian warplanes at the behest of the Spanish Nationalist forces, on 26 April 1937, during the Spanish Civil War...
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Attendance
Attendance of the museum calculated in number of entries .- 2000: 10 782 entries
- 2001: 13 272 entries
- 2002: 13 018 entries
- 2003: 15 437 entries
Anecdotes
November 16, 1981, the museum was the target of a burglaryBurglary
Burglary is a crime, the essence of which is illicit entry into a building for the purposes of committing an offense. Usually that offense will be theft, but most jurisdictions specify others which fall within the ambit of burglary...
. Two pictures of high values disappeared, one by Camille Pissarro
Camille Pissarro
Camille Pissarro was a French Impressionist and Neo-Impressionist painter born on the island of St Thomas . His importance resides in his contributions to both Impressionism and Post-Impressionism, as he was the only artist to exhibit in both forms...
and one by Renoir
Renoir
-People with the surname Renoir :* Pierre-Auguste Renoir , French painter* Pierre Renoir , French actor and son of Pierre-Auguste Renoir* Jean Renoir , French film director and son of Pierre-Auguste Renoir...
. May 2, 2003, the Curator of the museum, André Liatard, was warned by Sotheby's
Sotheby's
Sotheby's is the world's fourth oldest auction house in continuous operation.-History:The oldest auction house in operation is the Stockholms Auktionsverk founded in 1674, the second oldest is Göteborgs Auktionsverk founded in 1681 and third oldest being founded in 1731, all Swedish...
New York of the sale of a picture of Pissarro entitled Le marché aux poissons (monotype of 20 x 15 cm) that by vigilance consulted the basis of international data of the Art Loss Register
Art Loss Register
Art Loss Register is an evolving, computerized international database which captures information about lost and stolen art, antiques and collectables. The range of functions served by ALR has grown as the number of its listed items increased. The database has become potentially useful for...
. The sale was then blocked at the request of the Curator. An investigation started. It showed Emile Guelton had sold the painting
Painting
Painting is the practice of applying paint, pigment, color or other medium to a surface . The application of the medium is commonly applied to the base with a brush but other objects can be used. In art, the term painting describes both the act and the result of the action. However, painting is...
at a gallery of art of San Antonio for 6 to 7 000 $. This salesman was known for flights of works of art. Currently, the city of Aix-les-Bains
Aix-les-Bains
Aix-les-Bains is a commune in the Savoie department in the Rhône-Alpes region in south-eastern France.It is situated on the shore of Lac du Bourget, by rail north of Chambéry.-Geography:...
stretched to recover the stolen good. The duality of the legislations of the United States and France in the matter being complex, the city decided to propose a sum of 4 750 € to recover the picture and compensate the current owner in the US. The New York court should soon take a decision. In case of acceptance, the picture will be able to be recovered at the embassy of the United States in Paris.