Paysages

The display creates a dialogue between Paul Rebeyrolle’s majestic 1978 work, Végas del Condado (‘Spanish landscape’) and two monumental canvases by Hélène Delprat, and two paintings by Wang Yancheng, whose work is being exhibited here for the first time. The positioning reveals a subtle similarity between the work of such a remarkable artist as Paul Rebeyrolle, who was born in 1926, and two younger artists, Hélène Delprat, born in 1957, and Wang Yancheng, born in 1960.

Despite the decades that separate them, all three artists made the same choice – to produce large-scale paintings that can be described as ‘landscapes’, both real and imaginary; landscapes that are created from fragments and where invented worlds are jostling each other in the poetic sense.

The new displays at the Laennec chapel reflect a desire for the Pinault Collection to be accessible to as many people as possible, courtesy of a series of external exhibitions in addition to its appearances at museums in Venice and the Bourse de Commerce building that recently reopened in Paris.