Jean Masurel

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Jean Masurel (* 1908 ; † 1991 ) was a French industrialist and collector of Cubist works of art.

biography

Masurel came from the third generation of a family of French textile entrepreneurs from Roubaix . In 1924, under the influence of the collection of his uncle, Roger Dutilleul , he began collecting works of art himself. In 1956 he inherited the uncle's collection together with his wife Geneviève. In 1979 Masurel handed over the complete collection consisting of 219 works to the Communauté Urbaine de Lille. The donation was followed by the construction of the new museum in Villeneuve-d'Ascq (today: LaM ), where the collection has been located since 1983. In addition to Cubist paintings, he also collected African sculptures, including a Nimba mask from Guinea.

In 1942 he married Geneviève Marie Thérèse de la Rigodière, daughter of a family of textile entrepreneurs from Lyon. They have five children together.

literature

  • Elisabeth Flory: La Collection Dutilleul-Masurel. In: L'oeil. No. 338, 1983, pp. 38-42.
  • Musée d'art moderne de Villeneuve-d'Ascq (ed.): Donation Jean et Geneviève Masurel à la Communauté Urbaine de Lille. réd. par Elisabeth Flory, cat. Mus., Villeneuve-d'Ascq 1984, OCLC 491483004 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ La Donation Jean and Geneviève Masurel. LaM, accessed August 2018 (French).
  2. ↑ Christian Vincent: Jean Masurel, Une vie de passion pour l'art contemporain. In: La Voix Du Nord. March 20, 2013, accessed August 2018 (French).
  3. ↑ Savine Faupin, Pijaudier-Cabot: Roger Dutilleul, Jean Masurel, Collectionneur you Cubisme . In: Cat. Les années cubistes. Collections du Center Georges Pompidou u. a. Éditons du Center Pompidou, Paris 1999, ISBN 2-84426-017-9 , p. 16 .

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personal data
SURNAME Masurel, Jean
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French industrialist and art collector
DATE OF BIRTH 1908
DATE OF DEATH 1991