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The Musée d'Art Moderne in Paris is staging a retrospective exhibition of the work of Jean Hélion (1904-1987), a painter and intellectual whose work spans the 20th century. Jean Hélion was one of the pioneers of abstraction, which he introduced to America in the 1930s, before moving towards personal figuration at the dawn of the Second World War. He returned to France after the war, and in the 1960s was hailed by the new generation of Figuration Narrative painters such as Gilles Aillaud and Eduardo Arroyo. During his lifetime, Jean Hélion had numerous exhibitions in French and international galleries and institutions, such as the MAM in 1977 and 1984-85, with his most recent retrospective at the Centre Pompidou in 2004. Despite its importance and singularity, his work remains little known to the public. Organised chronologically, the exhibition Jean Hélion, La prose du monde brings together over 150 works (103 paintings, 50 drawings, notebooks and a wealth of documentation), rarely shown to the public, from major French and international institutions as well as numerous private collections.

With Henry Claude Cousseau, curator of the exhibition

Jean Hélion. La prose du monde

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Acquisition Group for Design

Acquisition Group for Photography

Acquisition Group for Contemporary Art

 Acquisition Group for the French Scene from the 1950s to the 1980s

Mission Recherche

The Amis invites you to rediscover the collections of the Musée national d'art moderne, as seen through the eyes of Aurélie Verdier, curator in the Department of Modern Collections.  

With Aurélie Verdier, conservatrice au Service des collections modernes

Sur quoi donne une fenêtre - Tour of the Museum collections