Peindre Marseille (1853-1878) - Une autre modernité

Catalogue of the exhibition Painting Marseille, 1853-1878. Another Modernity, presented at the Musée des Beaux-Arts de Marseille (18 May 2024 to 22 September 2024).

Around two masterpieces - Golfe de Marseille vu de l'Estaque, by Paul Cézanne, and La Lavandière, by Paul Guigou - are presented the Provençal landscapes of the painters of the École de Marseille..

This dialogue shows how the painters Emile Loubon, Paul Guigou and Marius Engalière, along with such original figures as Ziem and Monticelli, were able to use their luminous and colourful interpretation of the Provençal landscape to pave the way for a different kind of modernity, inspired by contemporary Naturalism and the Provençalist movement.

At a time when Impressionism was being born and bred, the local artistic milieu presented itself as an alternative to the new Parisian avant-gardes.

 With English texts

Contents

1853-1878. Choosing another modernity
Luc Georget

Émile Loubon, View of Marseille, taken from the Aygalades on a market day
Rémi Grisal

‘Well, we'll give them a hard time about it in eternity, with even more persistence.
Bruno Ely

The ‘Marseilles School’: an Arlesian?
Léa Saint-Raymond

WORKS EXHIBITED

APPENDICES
List of works
Selective bibliography
English texts
Acknowledgements