‘Pensées premières – Maîtres du dessin’ at Château de Biron

At Château de Biron in the Dordogne for the periodic exhibition of works from the Maeght Foundation. This year’s exhibition, ‘Pensées premières – Maîtres du dessin’, also contains a selection of twentieth-century art from the Brache–Bonnefoi collection.

The exhibition shows how graphic expression has developed from the sixteenth to the twentieth century, with examples of engravings, preparatory designs for larger works, and paintings.

Abrecht Durer ‘Adam and Eve’ (1504)

Henri Matisse ‘Portrait de Fabiani’ (1943)

Georges Braque ‘Théière et Pommes’ (1946)

Marc Chagall ‘La Bastille’ (1954)

Georges Braque ‘Les Amaryllis’ (1958)

Marc Chagall ‘Paravent’ screen (1963)

Jean Dubuffet ‘Monument II (à l’oiseau)’ (1967)

Alexander Calder ‘Dimanche dans le jardin’ (1974)

Joan Miró ‘La Meneuse de Lune’ (1975)

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