until Sunday January 19 2020

Musée Maillol - Fondation Dina Vierny
T : +33 (0)1 42 22 59 58
61, rue de Grenelle
75007 Paris
France

In the autumn, the Musée Maillol is holding an exhibition of more than a hundred works from the fascinating, dreamy, unique, and rich world of the ‘Naïve’ artists. Called ‘modern primitives’ by one of their ardent supporters, the collector and art critic Wilhelm Uhde (1874–1947), these artists renewed painting in their own way, independently from the avant-garde artists and without academicism.

Brought together for the first time in Paris, their brightly coloured works shed light on an inter-war period in the history of art that is often overlooked. Based on Henri Rousseau and Séraphine Louis, the exhibition aims to highlight a constellation of overlooked artists such as André Bauchant, Camille Bombois, Ferdinand Desnos, Jean Ève, René Rimbert, Dominique Peyronnet, and Louis Vivin.

From the Douanier Rousseau to Séraphine
From 11 September 2019 to 19 January 2020