This Tarn-et-Garonne museum enriches its collections with four new works

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Having lived most of their life in Montauban (Tarn-et-Garonne), Paul et Jacqueline Duchein, respectively a pharmacist and a professional biologist, have marked the history of the city as well as that of the Ingres Bourdelle museum.

The disappearance of Paul Duchein in January 2024, two years after that of his wife Jacqueline, caused the dispersal of their exceptional collection of works of art of which the museum wished to preserve a trace.

The museum, whose acquisitions program intends to promote the work of grandes figures
tutelaries who marked the artistic history of the City of Montaubanwanted to preserve a trace of this collection, certain works of which resonate with its own history.

What works are in the museum's collections?

Among the works acquired are: a drawing by Braque dedicated to Lieutenant Paul Duchein, testimony of his passion from a very young age (he was then 27 years old) for art and exceptional artists, like that of this founder of Cubism.

A Paperolle evoking the couple's passion for folk art objects. Jacqueline was particularly fascinated by these creations, testimony to the infinite patience of the nuns focused on this manual as well as spiritual exercise, intended to provide a unique setting for the relics preserved in the convents.

The museum also has a work by Jacques Villeglé, “Bob in Montauban, rue Gambetta Montauban”that is to say a laceration of posters made by the artist in 2000. At the Ingres Bourdelle museum, it will bear witness to Paul Duchein's attention to all the artistic movements of the 20th century and the role of conduit that he intended to play by organizing exhibitions.

Finally, thanks to the generosity of the Society of Friends of the museum, an album carefully composed by Paul Duchein in which he had collected his epistolary exchanges with the artists he admired. There we find letters signed by Paul Eluard, Robert Desnos…

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