It would take a César for the best supporting role, in painters too. These second knives of the great movements whose names are known, not really the works, apart from one or two views of Saint-Tropez. Artists that are followed in dotted lines … like the Pointillist Maximilien Luce (1858-1941), who benefits from time to time produced by Signac and Seurat, the masters of postimpressionism, also called divisionism or pointillism, but like a small fish in the wake of the big ones. We had to really discover this painter who often plays utilities, and finally the leading role at the Montmartre museum, his first Parisian retrospective since Marmottan in 1983, from this Friday.
This is a good exhibition: staying accessible but bring new, approaching a popular artistic period from an unprecedented point of view, allowing an artist to finally stand out. Luce merit. This chain of rooms, with many loans, reveals a wide variety of patterns and styles, and a spine: Luce has always remained faithful to its modest, workers. He is not this landscaper of pretty solar sets that we thought, even if they delight the eye.