Art Deco Masterpieces: Museum of the 1930s.
Editions Norma/City of Boulogne-Billancourt| N° d'inventaire | 29751 |
| Format | 25 x 28 |
| Détails | 176 p., illustrated, paperback. |
| Publication | Paris, 2022 |
| Etat | Nine |
| ISBN | 9782376660736 |
While Art Deco, admired by all at the International Exhibition of Decorative Arts in 1925, continued to spread until the end of the 1930s, alongside the modernist and cubist movements in the decorative arts, the Fine Arts and architecture, many painters of the interwar period such as Boutet de Montvel, Courmès, La Patelière, Souverbie and Despiau set about giving realism a new face, in step with its time.
The city of Boulogne-Billancourt is at the heart of this bubbling creativity. Attracted by affordable land, major industrialists such as Renault and Dassault, the Boulogne Studios for cinema, and artists such as Paul Landowski, Marc Chagall, and Juan Gris settled in this nascent city. Daniel-Henry Kahnweiler's "Sundays in Boulogne," bringing together numerous Cubist artists, helped make the city a leading cultural center.
A privileged witness to this prolific period, the 1930s Museum holds several hundred masterpieces in its collections, in fields as varied as painting, sculpture, with the Martel brothers, Jouve, Janniot and Bernard, decorative arts, with exceptional collections by Ruhlmann, Leleu, Follot, Sue and Mare, Printz, Herbst, Sognot, Mallet-Stevens, graphic arts and architecture. In contrast to a modernity too long confined to cubism, abstraction and conceptual art, it offers a unique perspective on this still little-known period.
While Art Deco, admired by all at the International Exhibition of Decorative Arts in 1925, continued to spread until the end of the 1930s, alongside the modernist and cubist movements in the decorative arts, the Fine Arts and architecture, many painters of the interwar period such as Boutet de Montvel, Courmès, La Patelière, Souverbie and Despiau set about giving realism a new face, in step with its time.
The city of Boulogne-Billancourt is at the heart of this bubbling creativity. Attracted by affordable land, major industrialists such as Renault and Dassault, the Boulogne Studios for cinema, and artists such as Paul Landowski, Marc Chagall, and Juan Gris settled in this nascent city. Daniel-Henry Kahnweiler's "Sundays in Boulogne," bringing together numerous Cubist artists, helped make the city a leading cultural center.
A privileged witness to this prolific period, the 1930s Museum holds several hundred masterpieces in its collections, in fields as varied as painting, sculpture, with the Martel brothers, Jouve, Janniot and Bernard, decorative arts, with exceptional collections by Ruhlmann, Leleu, Follot, Sue and Mare, Printz, Herbst, Sognot, Mallet-Stevens, graphic arts and architecture. In contrast to a modernity too long confined to cubism, abstraction and conceptual art, it offers a unique perspective on this still little-known period.