From November 14, 2026, to March 7, 2027, the Troyes Museum of Modern Art is dedicating a major exhibition to André Derain, awarded the "Exhibition of National Interest" label. It will then travel to the Bourdelle Museum in Paris in the spring of 2027.

"Art is a game," wrote André Derain, and Troyes takes him at his word: more than two hundred works by a restless and insatiable experimenter, a painter but also a sculptor, ceramist, illustrator, and ballet costume designer… Around him, Henri Matisse, Maurice de Vlaminck, and Alberto Giacometti set the tone.

An entire room is dedicated to a storm. In the autumn of 1938, a fir tree fell on his property in Chambourcy, revealing a deposit of clay beneath its roots. He set up kilns in the garden and began modeling clay using the coil method, the rolling technique, and finger pressure. The fiftieth anniversary of the Pierre and Denise Lévy donation could not have a better reason to celebrate.

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17 TROYES MUSEUM OF MODERN ART
18 From November 14, 2026 to March 7, 2027
14 Place Saint-Pierre, 10000 Troyes
Tue. to Sun. 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Admission: €6 - Free for under 26s
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