
LEFT Alice Halicka, Nature Morte Cubiste, 1915, ASOM Collection. Installation view, Max Jacob, le cubisme fantasque, Musée d’art moderne of Céret, Céret, 2024. Photo: Robin Townsend.
To mark the eightieth anniversary of Max Jacob’s death, the Musée d’art moderne of Céret pays tribute to the exceptional personality of a man who “never polished” his style. The exhibition Max Jacob, le cubisme fantasque will be held from 29th June to 1st December 2024, will retrace the poet-painter’s career from an unprecedented angle, painting the portrait of a protean artist whose work and friendships made him one of the major figures of modernism in the first half of the 20th century.
The exhibition will bring together nearly a hundred works by Max Jacob and his contemporaries, from Pablo Picasso to Amedeo Modigliani, including Juan Gris, André Derain, Marie Laurencin, Moïse Kisling, Jean Metzinger or Louis Marcoussis. It will explore the different facets of Max Jacob’s work, between literature and graphic arts, his links with Céret and Spain, and his collaborations with the greatest painters, poets, intellectuals and musicians of his time, until his tragic death in the Drancy camp in 1944.
