Hall of Saint Pierre
Halle Saint Pierre , also Musée d'Art Brut & Art Singulier and Musée d'Art Naïf - Max Fourny , is a municipal museum in Paris for naive art and Art brut .
History and collection
In 1986 the French publicist and former racing driver Max Fourny (1904–1991) founded the museum with his collection of approx. 600 works of naive art in a former market hall at the foot of the Sacré-Cœur de Montmartre in the 18th arrondissement . The building was built in 1868 by a student of Victor Baltard . Its steel and wrought iron architectural structure was preserved. Part of Fourny's art collection was later moved to another museum, and part of it was housed in an exhibition space on the ground floor of the building, the Musée d'Art Naïf - Max Fourny . The collection was expanded to include other Art Brut works. Today the collection includes 516 paintings as well as works on paper, sculptures , glass painting , inlays and textile art .
With the exhibition Art Brut et Compagnie, la face cachée de l'art contemporain (Eng .: Art Brut and Co., the hidden face of contemporary art ) from October 1995 to June 1996, which for the first time showed works by 101 artists from five French collections , the cultural project Halle Saint Pierre was inaugurated. By 2017, 50 thematic as well as historical, temporary exhibitions presented outsider art from all over the world. It is the only museum in Paris dedicated to this art. Martine Lusardy is the director and exhibition organizer. The Editions Halle Saint Pierre publishes catalogs of the temporary exhibitions.
The Halle Saint-Pierre houses the museum, the gallery, an event hall, an art bookshop and a café.
Web links
- Halle Saint Pierre, official website
- Literature by and about Halle Saint Pierre in the WorldCat bibliographic database
- Literature by and about Halle Saint Pierre in the SUDOC catalog (Association of French University Libraries)
- Raw vision. 25 Ans D'Art Brut . Exhibition, Halle Saint Pierre, 2013/2014 (pdf)