Fine
Arts Museum of Bordeaux
The Fine Arts Museum of Bordeaux was created officially
by the consular decree on August 31 of 1801 after the
report of Chaptal proposing the distribution of works
of the Central Museum in fifteen great province cities.
Since 1900, the Museum received several donations, allowing
it to increase its patrimony. Gilberte Martin, museum
curator from 1954 to 1985, established a policy of acquisition
based on the caravagesque and the modern painting schools.
In the hope of the construction of a new Museum, it accelerated
the constitution of the remarkable bottom of three famous
painters from Bordeaux: Odilon Redon, Albert Marquet and
André Lhote. It inaugurated in the same years a
series of great international exhibitions, that were going
to guarantee the reputation of the Gallery of the Fine
Arts, within the framework of May of Bordeaux and by initiative
of President Chaban-Delmas.
Jardin de la Mairie - 20, cours d'Albret
33000
Bordeaux
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