Museum of Modern Art - Troyes

The Museum of Modern Art was founded in 1976 when Pierre and Denise Lévy, an industrial couple from Troyes and collectors, donated nearly 2,000 works of art to the French state.

The museum is located in the former bishop's palace and was inaugurated in 1982. The collections reflect the Lévy couple's love for modern art from the second half of the 19th century to the first half of the 20th century . They illustrate a history of French art based on figuration on figuration and on the demand for a modernity in line with the classical tradition. The main themes are realism (Courbet, Daumier), fauvism (Derain, Braque, Friesz), cubism (Gris, Metzinger), the First School of Paris (Soutine, Modigliani), the art of the interwar period (Dufresne, La Fresnaye), exceptional personalities (Buffet, Balthus), the Second School of Paris (De Staël, Bissière), as well as works by the two main artists in the collection: the painter André Derain and the Trojan glassmaker Maurice Marinot, both good friends of the Lévys.

In addition to paintings, drawings and sculptures, the museum also has a collection of African and Oceanic art , which shows the dialogue between these arts and Western artists in the 20th century.

The collection, which now numbers almost 3,000 works, is a true collectors' museum and has been enriched by other important donations from collectors and artists and by the Friends of the Museum Association, which regularly supports the institution's purchases.

The museum is a place of art, where you can admire the collections during the permanent tour and in the sculpture garden with modern and contemporary works.

Willem Vandenameele