Exposition "Jean Couty. Voyage en italie"

For Jean Couty (1907–1991), Italy was a major source of inspiration and a central theme running through his work. From his early discoveries in Florence to his stays in the 1960s and 1970s, this region had a lasting influence on his vision and his painting.
Through a selection of works created between the 1960s and 1980s, the exhibition is organized around major themes:
“Red” Venice, a veritable open-air studio where he studied St. Mark’s and captured the infinite variations of light over the lagoon;
Sicily and the lava flows of Mount Etna, embodying a primitive and powerful nature;
Mediterranean landscapes, from Puglia to the southern shores, where a gentler and more serene aspect of his work is expressed;
finally, Romanesque churches, as well as Rome and the Vatican, where Jean Couty focuses on religious scenes, particularly those involving Popes Pius XII and John XXIII, capturing the solemnity of the ceremonies and the profoundly human dimension of the sacred.

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