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Exhibition March 2021
Calder, Soulages, Vasarely… Abstractions plurielles 1950-1980. Collection de la Fondation Gandur pour l'Art
The years following the Second World War saw a great artistic effervescence. Paris regained its status as cultural capital and once again attracted painters from all over the world. The geometric trend experienced new developments. At the same time, an emerging generation of artists revolutionized abstract art by transcending gesture and material thanks to new techniques and tools.

Collection December 2020
African Contemporary Art and the Diaspora
The collection of African Contemporary Art and the Diaspora brings together over 200 works produced by artists who have strong links with the African continent and its history in the many forms that characterize them, from the Maghreb to southern Africa.

Publication November 2020
The Decorative Arts (I), Sculptures, Enamels, Maiolicas, and Tapestries
This first catalogue of the Fondation Gandur pour l’Art’s decorative arts collection is devoted to works of Western art, from the twelfth to the eighteenth century, which serve both an ornamental and a narrative purpose. Sacred and profane, carrying symbolic or spiritual value, these sculptures, enamelled plaques, maiolica ware, and tapestries draw their inspiration from the repertories of Christian and ancient subjects that make up European culture.

Exhibition July 2020
La Libération de la peinture, 1945-1962
Through a selection of seventy-five works taken from its collection, the Fondation Gandur pour l’Art invites visitors to discover how the traumas of the Second World War had a long-term effect on the course of art, leading many European artists to invent a new pictorial language.
