Faure Museum (Aix-les-Bains)
45°41′31″N 5°54′57″E / 45.69194°N 5.91583°E
Established | 1949 |
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Location | Villa les Chimères 10 boulevard des Côtes |
Coordinates | 45°41′31″N 5°54′57″E / 45.691944°N 5.915833°E |
Type | Art museum |
Visitors | 15 437 (2003) |
Curator | André Liatard |
Website | www |
The Faure Museum is an
Infrastructures
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. Its facade is decorated by a painted border representing stylized pipe dreams.[1] The museum is open to the public, and wheelchair-accessible throughout.[1]
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 impressionist paintings and sculptures, gathered along with his Parisian frequentations and particularly with the Parisian art dealer André Shoeller.
Sculpture
The Faure Museum possesses the second collection in France of works of Rodin (33 sculptures and studies)
Paintings
A remarkable collection of
One can admire works of painters such as
Among the works in the collection:
- Judith Gautier by 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 Sisley
- Aix les Bains depuis le Boulevard des Anglais and Portrait d'Auguste Rodin, Claude-Max Lochu
Other
- A body of memories of the stays in Aix-les-Bains of the poet Lamartine, in particular the reconstruction suggestive[3] of his room in the pension Perrier where he lived in 1816 at the time of his meeting with Julie Charles.
- A collection of earthenwares and of ceramics, coming from the first museum of Aix-les-Bains, founded in 1872 by the painter and printmaker Ludovic Napoléon Lepic, friend of Degas.
- An eclectic collection of paintings and sculptures of the 17th to 20th century including .
Expositions temporaries
The museum Faure organizes five temporary expositions per year.[1] Here below a list of expositions having been organized within the museum:
- 1987 : Jean-Michel Alberola
- 1999 : Julien Bouvier
- 2000 : Claude-Max Lochu
- 2001 : Catherine Viollet
- 2004 : Henriette Deloras
- 2006 : 12 artists around Michel Butor
- 2007 : Around Guernica, preparatory drawings from the painter Guernica.
Attendance
Attendance of the museum calculated in number of entries.[4]
- 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
See also
References
- ^ a b c d Website of Ministère de la Culture
- ^ Federation national of offices of tourism and syndicats d'initiative - Aix-les-Bains office du tourisme Archived 2008-09-29 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ according to the museum notice
- ^ Mémento du tourisme 2004 par Rhône-Alpes Tourisme[permanent dead link]
- ^ Le Dauphiné LibéréEdition of 07/03/2008 - p. 32