During this summer of 2024, the Fabre Museums in Montpellier and Paul-Valéry Museums in Sète joined forces to pay tribute to Jean Hugo (1894-1984) on the occasion of the fortieth anniversary of his death. Great-grandson of the famous writer, Jean Hugo is the author of a “complete and prolific” work, which reflects the intense life of a man who was in turn a painter, decorator, illustrator and poet, both worldly and provincial. Through a set of 330 pieces, the Fabre Museum exhibition focuses on the life of Jean Hugo until the Second World War, focusing in particular on his membership in the avant-gardes at the beginning of the 20th century while that of Paul-Valéry Museum, bringing together an important group of works dominated by the question of landscape, returns to his deep, even mystical, attachment to nature.

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