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Musée Cantini

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Musée Cantini
Paul Signac: L'entrée du port de Marseille
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LocationMarseilles
Coordinates43°17′32″N 5°22′41″E / 43.29222°N 5.37806°E / 43.29222; 5.37806
TypeArt museum

The Musée Cantini is a museum in Marseille that has been open to the public since 1936. The museum specializes in modern art, especially paintings from the first half of the twentieth century.

The building

The musée Cantini building was built in 1694 for the Compagnie du Cap Nègre, , specializing in coral fishing on the northern coasts of Tunisia[1] and in the trade of wool, wax and leather.[2] The company ran into financial difficulties and the building was sold in 1709[3] to Dominique de Montgrand great-grandfather of Jean-Baptiste-Jacques-Guy-Thérèse de Montgrand, future Mayor of Marseille.[4] The building was then sold to Louis Joseph Chaudoin in 1801, and to Dieudonné Bernadac in 1816. In 1888, it was acquired by Jules Cantini who bequeathed it to the City of Marseille in 1916, with the stipulation that it was to become a museum of decorative arts. The museum was opened in 1936.[citation needed]

The Collection

André Derain, Pinède à Cassis (Landscape), 1907, oil on canvas, 54 x 65 cm

The Musée Cantini has one of the largest public collections in France of the 1900–1980 period,[5] along with a few earlier works such as the 1756 The Expeditionary Corps Embarks for Minorca at the Port of Marseille Under the Command of Marshal de Richelieu. A wide variety of artists is represented, including Charles Camoin, Raoul Dufy, Albert Gleizes, Henri Laurens, Wassily Kandinsky, František Kupka, Jean Hélion, Alberto Magnelli, Amédée Ozenfant, Max Ernst, André Masson, Simon Simon-Auguste, Jacques Thévenet, Victor Brauner, Joan Miró, Jean Arp.

Pointillisme, fauvisme et cubisme

Inter-War Period

Surrealism

From World War II to 1980

Drawings

The museum has drawings by André Derain, Pierre Bonnard, André Masson, Francis Picabia, Mark Rothko, Pablo Picasso, Edward Hopper, Victor Brauner, Jean Dubuffet...

Degas theft

In 2009, the museum was exhibiting Edgar Degas's pastel on monotype Les Choristes, on loan from the Musée d'Orsay in Paris. It was stolen at the end of the year; the investigation went cold until 2018, when customs officers recovered it from the luggage compartment of a bus outside Paris.[6]

Bibliography

  • Régis Bertrand, Lucien Tirone, Le guide de Marseille, édition la manufacture, Besançon, 1991, ISBN 2-7377-0276-3

References

  1. ^ Paul Masson, Les Compagnies du corail, Barlatier et Fontemoing, Marseille et Paris, 1908
  2. ^ Augustin Fabre, Les Rues de Marseille, Camoin, Marseille, 5 volumes, tome IV, page 246
  3. ^ Gaston Rambert, Histoire du commerce de Marseille, Plon, Paris, 1954, 7 volumes, tome 4 page 235
  4. ^ Comte Godefroy de Montgrand, Armorial de la ville de Marseille, Alexandre Gueidon, Marseille, 1864, page 274-275
  5. ^ Musée Cantini, collections permanentes, site www.marseille.fr
  6. ^ Breeden, Aurelien (February 23, 2018). "Degas Painting, Stolen in 2009, Is Found on Bus Near Paris". The New York Times. Retrieved January 24, 2019.

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