the fondation gandur pour l'art

A taste for art, the pleasure of collecting and a desire to share collections

The Fondation Gandur pour l’Art was established as a not-for-profit organization by Jean Claude Gandur in 2010, in order to ensure public access to his world-class collections.

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archaeology

Made up of over 1200 objects

this rich collection consists of Egyptian, Greek and Roman bronzes, of outstanding quality, and an ensemble of amulets, one of the world’s richest collections of its kind.

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decorative arts

Nearly 400 art and decorative objects

many of which are examples of 18th-century French furniture and sculpture, dating from the Middle Ages to the baroque art.

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fine arts

More than 750 artworks from the 20th and 21st centuries

with a special focus on abstraction from the Second School of Paris, the CoBrA movement, the Narrative Figuration, the New Realism and Supports/Surfaces.

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ethnology

200 objects from Latin America, over 50 artifacts from other parts of the world

Pre-Columbian objects, Colima, Nayarit or Diquis cultures, Olmec, Aztec and Mayan civilisations: a collection characterised by the complementarity of its themes.

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News

Loan October 2019

Martin Barré

MAMCO’s take on Martin Barré is Switzerland’s first large-scale presentation of work by this pivotal figure in mid-to-late 20th-century art.

Loan October 2019

Jean Dubuffet. Un bárbaro en Europa

After the Mucem in Marseille, the traveling exhibition Jean Dubuffet. Un bárbaro en Europa takes up residence at the IVAM and reveals how Jean Dubuffet intertwines in his work his painting and writing activities with the research he has devoted to what he calls Art Brut.

loan September 2019

Peter Saul. Pop, Funk, Bad Painting and More

This retrospective, the first exhibition by American artist Peter Saul in a museum in France since 1999, covers the career of one of the very last contemporaries of Pop Art, from the late 1950s to the present day.

June 2019

Histoire de l'art cherche personnages...

Le CAPC musée d’art contemporain de Bordeaux s’associe à la Cité internationale de la bande dessinée et de l’image d’Angoulême et son musée, ainsi qu’à la Fondation Gandur pour l’Art, afin de présenter une importante exposition collective à partir de leurs fonds respectifs.

Artwork of the month September 2019

Head of a young prince depicted as a pharaoh

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