The essential experience of exile is common to Picasso, Chagall and Léger, at different times in history, for different reasons, with different consequences. For Chagall and Picasso, exile was a founding factor when they left for the fascinating Paris of the beginning of the century, and for Léger it served as a new stimulus in the United States after the Second World War.
Around these three figures, the exhibition aims to show the extent to which exile inspired many artists, particularly in the first part of the 20th century. Through their long-lasting displacement in space, whether desired or forced, never indifferent, the vision of these artists is transformed and their way of creating profoundly modified.
Exhibition Exiles, Reminiscences and new worlds, Musées nationaux du XXe siècle des Alpes-Maritimes, Musée Chagall in Nice, Musée Léger in Biot, Musée Picasso in Vallauris from 24 June 2012 to 8 October 2012.
