MUSÉE D’ART MODERNE RICHARD ANACRÉON
" La Haute-Ville " – Place de l’Isthme
Tél. +33 2 33 51 02 94
musee.anacreon@ville-granville.fr

RICHARD ANACRÉON, BOOK SELLER AND COLLECTOR
Paris, the Latin Quarter after the war. A friend to artists. A native of Granville, bookseller in Paris in the forties, Richard Anacréon (1908-1992) gifted his collection of paintings and books to his native city in the eighties. A collection of great names, those of the artist and writer friends that visited his bookshop, l’Originale.

MODERN ART
Early 20th century to the fifties. Cross, Luce, Signac, Picabia, Derain, Vlaminck, Utrillo, Van Dongen… From the dawn of the twentieth century to the fifties, a collection of paintings signed by the greatest artists of their time, reflecting the taste of an enlightened art lover, Richard Anacréon.

RARE BOOKS
Original editions and illustrated books. First edition of XXth century major writers, novelists and poets: Guillaume Apollinaire, Jean Cocteau, Paul Valéry, Colette, André Malraux… Rare and precious books nowadays, often illustrated by some of the main illustrators of the XXth century first half.

WRITING
Letters and authentic manuscripts of writers. Tucked in the books, handwritten letters by the authors testifying to their friendship for the bookseller Richard Anacréon bring movingly to life the man behind the poet or the writer, the cultural life of postwar Paris.

2010 Program
From 1st April 2010
A look at a collection of artwork from the 20th century

New arrangement of the painting collection.

From May 12 to October 26 Jacques Le Chevallier (1896-1987). Modern light Exhibition dedicated to an artist who would devote his life to art and the pursuit of light through multiple means of expression: painting, engraving, glass, illustration, decoration. Three aspects of Jacques Le Chevallier’s work will be presented simultaneously at three partner venues: L’Abbaye d’Hambye, the Avranches Art and History Museum and the Richard Anacreon Museum of Modern Art. You can admire the Notre Dame cathedral’s stained glass windows that he designed.

From July 3 to October 17
Special theme exhibition: Paul Léautaud (1872-1956)
First-edition books, manuscripts, photographs and portraits immerse you in the universe of this writer who visited Richard Anacréon and its bookstore L'Originale for several years.