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12.23.11 - Granet Museum : Exhibitions programme 2012/2013

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Granet Museum
Place Saint Jean de Malte – Quartier Mazarin.
FR - 13100 AIX EN PROVENCE
Tel. +33 (0) 442 52 88 32 
www.museegranet-aixenprovence.fr



Schedule
October to May : Tuesday to Sunday from 12 am to 6 pm
June to September : Tuesday to Sunday from 10 am to  pm
Closed on Mondays. Annual holidays : 1 January, 1 May and 25 December.

Individual entry: €4
Group entry: €3 per person (minimum 15 people)
Bookings: Tel: +33(0)4 42 52 87 97
Email. resagranet@agglo-paysdaix.fr 
www.museegranet-aixenprovence.fr/www/tarifs.php

The Granet Museum offers an exciting programme of temporary exhibitions, discussion sessions, and educational and cultural activities.


2012

26 may to 30 september  2012
MASTERPIECES FROM THE FRIEDER BURDA MUSEUM
A collection presented for the first time in France

Discover part of the large collection of modern and contemporary art of the Frieder Burda Museum in Baden Baden, Germany.
In addition to 50 masterpieces, mainly large-format paintings, this exhibition is designed to introduce the public to the outstanding collection of Frieder Burda, which has never before been shown in France.

This collection is renowned throughout Europe for its richness and diversity, although it only comprises a few artists in order to show the development of each one's work.
It gives pride of place to the emblematic German expressionists such as Kirchner, Macke and Beckmann, artists such as Gerhard Richter, Sigmar Polke, Georg Baselitz, and the American painters Jackson Pollock, Clifford Still and Mark Rothko.

As well as this series of painters there is an exceptional collection of seven particularly moving large-format works by Picasso, dating from his last period (between 1960 and 1972), including a bronze sculpture, Figure of a Child.

Opening times: Tuesday to Sunday, 10.00 to 19.00.
Entry to the exhibition is included in the price of tickets to the Granet Museum.

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August Macke, (1887 - 1914), Kleiner Zoologischer Garten in Braun und Gelb, 1912, Öl auf Leinwand (47 x 67,3), © DR


2013

AIX EN PROVENCE PARTNER OF
MARSEILLE PROVENCE 2013 EUROPEAN CAPITAL OF CULTURE

Granet Museum: mid-June to mid-October 2013
LE GRAND ATELIER DU  MIDI

The major exhibition Le Grand Atelier du Midi (Grand Studio of the South) is structured around a central diptych. The first part, From Van Gogh to Bonnard, will be held in Marseille, in the renovated rooms of the Palais Longchamp Art Gallery, and the second part, From Cézanne to Matisse, will be shown at the Granet Museum in Aix-en-Provence.

The exhibition covers a long period, from 1880 to 1960, and illustrates the various movements which marked the 20th century, from Impressionism to Post-Impressionism, including Fauvism, Cubism, the experiments of the Surrealists and Abstraction.

Since the first visits of Renoir and Signac, the "Midi" (South of France), a region in contact with other countries around the Mediterranean, has been an infinite source of inspiration for painters. The exhibition, a joint production with the National Museums Council and the Grand Palais, will bring together masterpieces by the greatest artists of the 20th century, assembled from the most prestigious national and international collections, both public and private, including the Orsay Museum and the Pompidou Centre.


Granet Museum – Pénitents Blancs Chapel
PLANQUE COLLECTION
On loan from the Jean and Suzanne Planque Foundation

The museum's collection of modern and contemporary art was significantly increased in 2010 by the 15 year loan of the Planque collection and its works from Renoir to Picasso, including Van Gogh, Bonnard, Braque, Dufy, Klee, de Staël, Dubuffet and others. Following the presentation of some 120 masterpieces in the summer of 2011 and the great success of this exhibition, Granet Museum is expanding and, in 2013, will open new exhibition space in the Pénitents Blancs Chapel where most of the Planque collection – paintings, drawings and sculptures – will be on display in an area of more than 700 m2.