The Musée de l'Annonciade continues its programme to honour major personalities or events that have shaped and marked its constitution and development.
The opening of the Museon Tropelen on 15 October 1922 was of national importance, as it was one of the very first museums of contemporary art. The works collected were all produced between 1903 and the 1920s.
Another remarkable and notorious fact is that it was established on the initiative of painters who agreed to donate works in order to constitute this first collection, which was to become the nucleus of the future Musée de l'Annonciade from 1937.
The Tropelen Museum was born from the pictorial discovery by Signac in 1892, a major element of the attractiveness of the Gulf for a myriad of artists who came to visit this leader of neo-impressionism and a key figure who encouraged the emergence of many avant-garde plastic manifestations.
On the initiative of Henri Person, surrounded by André Turin, Carlos Remond, Jean-Alphonse Stival and of course supported and encouraged by Paul Signac, this Tropezian museum was born from a philanthropic impulse, from the desire to share the pictorial realizations born in the very framework where they are exposed to the public. More than 30 paintings were donated between 1922 and 1929 in order to achieve this ambitious goal.
This original centenary adventure will be recounted, from 15 October, in the context of a temporary presentation that will bring together the vast majority of the pieces that made up this original collection and will highlight well-known artists such as Henri Lebasque, Henri Manguin, Theo Van Rysselberghe, Pierre Bonnard, Paul Signac and Henri Person, as well as lesser known painters such as Henri Doucet, André Villeboeuf and Marie Nivoulies.
This exhibition will allow visitors to immerse themselves in the landscapes of the Gulf which enchanted the painters who discovered them and who knew how to magnify them and to make certain sites and architectural sections part of their heritage.
