| Museum Faure | |
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Faure Museum at Aix-les-Bains |
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| Established | 1949 |
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Villa les Chimères |
| Type | Art museum |
| Visitor figures | 15 437 (2003) |
| Curator | André Liatard |
| Website | DRAC Rhône-Alpes |
The Faure Museum is an art museum situated at Aix-les-Bains in France in the department of Savoie. It is a museum of France, according to the law n°2002-5 of January 4, 2002[1]. It was founded in 1949 and comprised initially artworks from the private collection of Doctor Jean Faure (1862–1942), bequeathed to the city. The Faure Museum possesses the second collection in France of works from Rodin and the second collection of impressionist paintings of France[2].
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The Faure Museum is installed in a villa of Italian style, The Villa des Chimères (Villa of the Pipe Dreams). It was constructed in 1902. This building is of Genoese style from the 19th century. It possesses an entry surround by two columns. A border was painted to decorate his frontispiece and represents stylized pipe dreams[1]. The public have access to with the handicapped norms. The circulation within the museum is adapted to the wheelchairs in the entire rooms entirety[1].
The museum proposes a freely accessible garden to the public. There are several artworks in the garden among which a statue of Alfred Boucher and a statue of Mars Vallett, Enfants sous la neige (Children under the snow).
The Faure Museum shelters the collections constituted by Doctor Faure, between the two world wars, composed of impressionist paintings and sculptures, gathered along with his Parisian frequentations and particularly with the merchant of Parisian art André Shoeller.
The Faure Museum possesses the second collection in France of works of Rodin (33 sculptures and studies)
A remarkable collection of paintings concerning the impressionism (with painters close by impressionism, as those of the romanticism, post-impressionism and symbolism), was gathered, for most of them by Doctor Faure, and further enriched with time by new acquisitions.
One can admire works of painters such as: Corot, Boudin, Jongkind, Ravier, Puy, Cézanne, Sisley, Pissarro, Degas, Bonnard, Vuillard, Lebourg, Lebasque, Marquet, Robert Louis Antral, Charles Cottet, Jules Desbois, Edmond Aman-Jean, John Singer Sargent, Victor Vignon, Constant Troyon, Stanislas lépine and also Adolphe Monticelli, Georges Michel, Jean Victor Bertin...
Here some works of the museum:
The museum Faure organizes five temporary expositions per year[1]. Here below a list of expositions having been organized within the museum:
Attendance of the museum calculated in number of entries [4].
November 16, 1981, the museum was the target of a burglary[5]. Two pictures of high values disappeared, one by Camille Pissarro and one by Renoir. May 2, 2003, the Curator of the museum, André Liatard, was warned by Sotheby's New York of the sale of a picture of Pissarro entitled Le marché aux poissons (monotype of 20 x 15 cm) that by vigilance consulted the basis of international data of the Art Loss Register. The sale was then blocked at the request of the Curator. An investigation started[5]. It showed Emile Guelton had sold the painting at a gallery of art of San Antonio for 6 to 7 000 $. This salesman was known for flights of works of art. Currently, the city of Aix-les-Bains stretched to recover the stolen good. The duality of the legislations of the United States and France in the matter being complex, the city decided to propose a sum of 4 750 € to recover the picture and compensate the current owner in the US. The New York court should soon take a decision. In case of acceptance, the picture will be able to be recovered at the embassy of the United States in Paris[5].