Trèbes: the painter Max Jacob told by Art in discovery

Saturday November 16 at 2 p.m., exhibition hall (on the banks of the Canal) at the Maison des associations et de la famille (1, avenue Pierre-Curie) *, Marie-Laure Ruiz, Art historian, graduate of higher education from Louvre School and Museums speaker will introduce Max Jacob. This modernist poet, novelist, French painter is the precursor of Dada, then of surrealism without adhering to it, he turned French poetry upside down with his free and burlesque verse from 1917. After giving up his career as a journalist, he became intimately involved with Pablo Picasso, Guillaume Apollinaire, Marie Laurencin, André Salmon and Amedeo Modigliani. From 1934 he became an influential letter writer, particularly on Jean Cocteau.

Participation in this conference constitutes a useful guide for visiting the exhibition “Max Jacob and the fanciful cubism of tomorrow” which is currently being held in Céret (Pyrénées-Orientales). Indeed, Art in Discovery offers Sunday November 17 an outing to the modern art museum in Céret: “Max Jacob, at the Rigaud museum in Perpignan”.