The Angladon Museum - Jacques Doucet Collection - The art collection of the pioneer of haute couture

A HOUSE MUSEUM, AN ART LOVERS' INTERIOR
The Angladon Museum - Jacques Doucet Collection is one of the most attractive museums in Avignon. Located in the heart of the city, it occupies a beautiful eighteenth century building, designed as a house museum, respecting the testamentary wishes of its founders, Jean Angladon (1906-1979) and Paulette Martin (1905-1988). It opened to the public on November 15, 1996. It owes its name to its founders. Avignon artists who remained without descendants, heirs to the magnificent collection of paintings and works of art by their great-uncle Jacques Doucet, both are driven by the desire to share with the general public the wonders that the family has preserved over two generations. The end of their life was devoted to the organization of an art museum in the building they have lived in since 1977. Upon their death, the Fondation de France executed their testamentary provisions by creating the Angladon-Dubrujeaud Foundation, under the aegis of which the creation and influence of the Angladon Museum are placed. 

THE GREATEST ARTISTS OF MODERNITY
The fundamental mission of the Museum is to share with the public the sumptuous collection of paintings and works of art inherited from the couturier Jacques Doucet (1853-1929), pioneer of haute couture, knowledgeable amateur and valued patron of artists and writers of his time. By giving these works a setting in keeping with their quality, the Angladon Museum - Jacques Doucet Collection offers its visitors a privileged moment of observation, sharing and intimacy with the greatest artists of modernity : Van Gogh, with Railway Wagons (1888), masterpiece from the Arles period, the only painting by Van Gogh present in a permanent collection in Provence, Modigliani with La Blouse rose, enigmatic portrait of a woman, Cézanne, Picasso, Vuillard, Degas, Foujita, Manet, Redon, but also treasures of rare works from the Renaissance to the 18th century, covering the decorative arts of Europe and the Far East, in the preserved atmosphere of an art lovers' interior. The numerous books in the library formed by the Angladon, like the sumptuous collection of eighteenth century drawings including those of Boucher or Meissonier, are available on motivated request and exhibited at events or temporary exhibitions.

ALSO KNOWN AS MAN RAY. A SPECIAL COLLECTION.
We know Man Ray for his photographs, true icons of our cultural heritage, in particular his portraits and his fashion photos. He was also a painter, designer, creator of objects, man of the cinema. "Photography is not art", he said to emphasize that the essential for him was elsewhere, on the side of experimentation, the creation of new forms. One hundred rare works, including more than eighty belonging to a private collection, and twenty made available by the Jacques Doucet Literary Library, are shown in the exhibition Also known as Man Ray. A private collection at the Musée Angladon, from May 28 to October 4, 2020. Drawings and paintings by Man Ray, "rayograms" revealing the magic of objects simply placed on sensitive film, photogravures and other experimental pieces, supplemented by the projection of films from the surrealist period.
This very singular ensemble reveals the multiple facets of a prolific artist, exploring new horizons of modernity in the company of his artist and poet friends. Starting with the artists of the Dada movement, like Duchamp, with whom he "made" strange images. But also Paul Eluard, who engaged with him in the poetic-graphic adventure of the Hands Free: drawings by Man Ray illustrated by the poet's texts, including a superb vision of the Pont d'Avignon accompanied by the words of Eluard, that the Museum has the privilege of exhibiting. The artistic adventure continued within the surrealist community which cultivated "disturbing strangeness", with a flowering of objects dreamt, reinvented, diverted from their common use. It eventually led on the Man Ray aesthetic linked to Hollywood cinema. 

Angladon Museum - Jacques Doucet Collection.

5, rue du Laboureur - 84000 Avignon

+ 33 (0)4 90 82 29 03 - www.angladon.com  

The Museum is fully accessible to people with reduced mobility.