The National Museum of Modern Art is exhibiting, mixed with some works from its own collections, a selection of those from the Jean-Jacques Lebel Endowment Fund, 95 pieces in all, under the curatorship of Cécile Bargues, one of the administrators of the Fund, and by Anne Montfort-Tanguy, curator in the museum’s graphic arts office. What is it about? From a set – now inalienable since its creation as an endowment fund – of around a thousand pieces, built up over the years by Lebel, born in 1936, artist, writer, anarchist activist (in 1968, he was one of the pillars of the March 22 Movement), anti-colonialist, troublemaker and eternal rebel.
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Inside, none of his works – even if he lent one for the exhibition –, but many of those of his friends, and also of the artists he loves, the surrealists in particular: little Jean-Jacques, son of poet, collector and art dealer Robert Lebel (1901-1986), refugee in New York during the Occupation, met André Breton himself, and jumped, literally, on the knees of Marcel Duchamp (his father devoted an important book in 1959), who offered him and signed his self-portrait, a profile made of torn paper.
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