In the Hugo family, we have grandfather Victor, leader of the romantic drama and rebellious author of Les Misérables. Then, we have Jean, the great-grandson of the poet, painter, writer and decorator with immense talent, but with a temperament so modest that his friend Pablo Picasso criticized him for not having taken care enough of his own glory. his lifetime. Forty years after his disappearance, here he is granted. The painter definitively emerges from the overwhelming shadow of his ancestor thanks to the Paul Valéry museum. Through the selection of a hundred sun-drenched works, luminous paintings, miniature formats and illustrated books, this exhibition transports us between sky and earth to the peaks of Languedoc, Spain and Great Britain. Brittany.

Distant horizons and construction games punctuate this foray into the universe of a unique artist who used to work his landscapes in colorful, synthetic and contrasting masses. From canvas to canvas, we follow the traces left by this “famous little-known” who assumed with modesty and elegance the burden of a name so hard to bear.

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PAUL VALÉRY MUSEUM
From June 29 to October 13, 2024
148 rue François Desnoyer, 34200 Sète
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