Visit of the Cabinet d’art graphique of the Centre Pompidou
Anne Montfort-Tanguy, Curator at the Cabinet d’art graphique of the Musée national d’art moderne Centre Pompidou, will present a set of masterpieces from the collection.
The visit will take place in the consultation room of the Cabinet d’art graphique. The entrance will be through the staff entrance located at the intersection of Saint-Merri Street and Beaubourg Street.
The Centre Pompidou’s graphic art collection includes more than 20,000 drawings and prints. This collection, from the collections of the Jeu de Paume and the Musée du Luxembourg when the Cabinet d’art graphique was created in 1975, has grown considerably over time.
The modern part of this collection, from 1905 to the 1960s, welcomed new major collections: Antonion Artaud, Victor Brauner, Marc Chagall, Sonia Delaunay, Jean Dubuffet, Marcel Duchamp, Natalia Gontcharova, Vassily Kandinsky, Frans Kupka, Henri Matisse, Joan Miró, Carl-Henning Pedersen…
The contemporary part of the collection has grown thanks to a dynamic policy of acquisitions supported by the generosity of artists and collectors, in touch with French and international graphic creation: Pierre Alechinsky, Karel Appel, Silvia Bächli, Pierrette Bloch, Louise Bourgeois, Marlene Dumas, Per Kirkeby, Giuseppe Penone, Nancy Spero, Rosemarie Trockel…