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Art Deco, admired by all at the International Exhibition of Decorative Arts of 1925, continued to spread until the end of the 1930s, together with the modernist and cubist movements in the decorative arts, fine arts and architecture. However, many painters from the interwar period, such as Boutet de Montvel, Courmès, La Patelière, Souverbie and Despiau, endeavored to give realism a new face, in tune with the times.
The city of Boulogne-Billancourt is at the heart of this bubbling creativity. Attracted by affordable land, major industrialists like Renault and Dassault settled in this emerging city, as did the Boulogne cinema studios, and artists such as Paul Landowski, Marc Chagall and Juan Gris. The Daniel-Henry Kahnweiler’s “Sundays of Boulogne” helped make the city a leading cultural center by bringing together numerous Cubist artists.
A privileged witness to this abundant era, the museum of the 1930s preserves in its collections several hundred masterpieces, in fields as varied as painting and sculpture (with the Martel brothers, Jouve, Janniot and Bernard), the decorative arts (with Ruhlmann, Leleu, Follot, Sue et Mare, Printz, Herbst, Sognot and Mallet-Stevens), and graphic arts and architecture. Going against a modernity too long confined to cubism, abstraction and conceptual art, it offers a unique look at this still little-known period.
AUTHOR
Emmanuel Bréon is chief heritage curator at the French Monuments Museum / City of Architecture & Heritage. He directed the Musée des Années 30, Boulogne-Billancourt, and the Musée de l’Orangerie, Paris. He has curated numerous exhibitions including “1925, When Art Deco Seduced the World” at the Cité de l’architecture & du patrimoine and “Art Deco-France North America”. He is the author of around a hundred works including Alfred Janniot: Monumental (Editions Norma, 2022).
INFORMATION
Format: 250 x 280 mm
Number of pages: 176
Number of illustrations: approximately 200
Soft binding
Text in French only
ISBN: 9782376660736