RESTORATION OF THE WORKS OF THE MHAB-MUSEUM OF HISTORY AND ART OF BORMES LES MIMOSAS
It was a new restoration campaign that was completed in July 2022. 17 paintings and graphic arts were treated in Margherita Segala’s workshop.
The MHAB team went to Margherita Segala’s workshop to see the works undergoing restoration. Few museums have an in-house restoration workshop. The works are therefore taken in charge by the restorers and treated in the workshop. The museum’s 2021 collection survey provided a diagnosis of the collection’s state of conservation. A multi-year restoration program has been set up based on this diagnosis. This is the second campaign of this program.
The MHAB, committed for the last 3 years to an active and reasoned acquisition policy, has acquired a work by the artist Jean Peské in the auction room.
Jean Peské, who has been recognized by art critics, public institutions and collectors since his lifetime, is one of the major artists represented in the museum’s collection.
Of Polish origin, Jean Peské moved to France to study art in Paris. The link between the artist and the village of Bormes is undeniable. It was in the South of France from 1910, and particularly in Bormes, that the painter tried to tame the light. After living in the village, he built a small house on the Pointe de Gouron in La Favière and divided his life between Bormes and Paris for about fifteen years. He became very famous between the 1920s and 1940s. His work is remarkable and his life rich in artistic encounters such as those with Henri de Toulouse Lautrec, Pissarro, Bonnard and Paul Signac.
His portraits of trees and his wash drawings enhanced with Indian ink characterise his singular and innovative work, as shown by this new acquisition, a representation of a chestnut tree in the Vendée.
Title : Environs de Saint-Jean-de-Monts (Vendée) Artist : Jean Peské Date of creation: 1927 Material and technique : Watercolour ink on paper Dimensions: H. 73 cm, W. 98 cm Inventory number: 2022.1.1
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