Treasures of the Treilles Foundation.

In the first half of 2022—and for the first time in Switzerland—the Fondation de l'Hermitage has the privilege of unveiling the Fondation des Treilles collection. This name, evoking interlacing greenery, houses an exceptional collection of works by Hans Arp, Georges Braque, Victor Brauner, Max Ernst, Alberto Gacometti, Pablo Picasso, and Yassilakis Takis, brought together by a committed patron, Anne Gruner Schlumberger (1905-1993).
Produced in collaboration with the Fondation des Treilles, the exhibition designed for the Hermitage offers a striking immersion into the world of Max Ernst, as well as that of Victor Brauner, the two artists most lithographed by Georges Braque, straight out of The Order of Birds (1962) by the poet Saint-John Perse. The exhibition also demonstrates the collector's love of Mediterranean culture, bringing together an antique horse's head with painted wooden reliefs by Hans Arp, and white-paste ceramics by Pablo Picasso with sculptures launched into the sky by Yassilakis Takis.
Bringing together around a hundred paintings, drawings, engravings and sculptures from this collection, rarely shown outside the walls of the Fondation des Treilles, the exhibition in Lausanne will offer a unique opportunity to admire the treasures gathered by Anne Gruner Schlumberger, and to discover the taste, personality and artistic friendships of one of the greatest collectors of the 20th century, richly represented within the collection.
It also offers many surprises, including a spectacular flock of fourteen sheep by sculptor François-Xavier Lalanne, and a dozen birds.