Lille Métropole Museum of Modern, Contemporary and Outsider Art
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The Lille Métropole Museum of Modern, Contemporary and Outsider Art (LaM), formerly known as Villeneuve d'Ascq Museum of Modern Art, is an art museum in Villeneuve d'Ascq, France.
With more than 4,500 artworks on a Template:Convert exhibition area, the LaM is the only museum in Europe to present simultaneously the main components of the 20th and 21st centuries art : modern art, contemporary art and outsider art. LaM's holdings include some masterpieces of Pablo Picasso, Amedeo Modigliani, Joan Miró, Georges Braque, Fernand Léger, Alexander Calder and the biggest outsider art collection in France. LaM possesses also a library and a rich park of sculptures.
The museum's collection offers an overview in modern and contemporary art, including drawings, painting, sculpture, photography, prints, illustrated books and artist's books, and electronic media.
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History
The Villeneuve d'Ascq Museum of Modern Art is opened in 1983 to house the collection of modern art donated by Geneviève and Jean Masurel to Lille conurbation. In 1999, the collections were enriched with a collection of outsider art, thanks to the donation made by the association L'Aracine. In 2002, Manuelle Gautrand was the winner of a competition for the restructuring and extension of the museum. The museum was closed in January, 2006 for restructuring. On September 25, 2010, the museum re-opened under a new name, Lille Métropole Museum of Modern, Contemporary and Outsider Art (LaM).
Architecture
The museum was built by Roland Simounet in 1983 in a green setting. The building is registered in French Inventaire supplémentaire des Monuments historiques in 2000.
Manuelle Gautrand designed an extension, covering 2700 m², of which the construction ended in 2010.
Artworks
In the park
In the museum: Modern Art
In the museum: Contemporary art
In the museum: Outsider art
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- Aloïse Corbaz, sans titre (between 1918 and 1964)
- Aloïse Corbaz, Noël / Château de Blümenstein / Ange (~ 1940–1945)
- Anonymous called les Barbus Müller, Tête avec coiffe (19??)
- Fleury Joseph Crépin, Tableau merveilleux n° 35 (1948)
- Fleury Joseph Crépin, Tableau n° 282 (1945)
- Henry Darger, At Phelantonberg. They are pursued but rescued by the Christian soldiers (before 1973)
- Auguste Forestier, Personnage à profil d’aigle (1935–1949)
- Madge Gill, Sans titre, (1923–1932)
- Madge Gill, Sans titre (1954)
- Pascal-Désir Maisonneuve, La reine Victoria (~ 1927-28)
- Jules Leclercq
- Augustin Lesage, Composition décorative (1936)
- Augustin Lesage, L’Esprit de la pyramide (1926)
- Augustin Lesage, Les Mystères de l'Antique Égypte (1930)
- Guillaume Pujolle, L’Astronome (1946)
- André Robillard, Fusil U.S.A Fichter ARWK (1982)
- Willem Van Genk, Minsk-Moscva (1966–67)
- Adolf Wölfli
- Carlo Zinelli, Grande fiore verde e giallo, macchina e figure (1968)
Library
The LaM possesses a library-research center with nearly 40,000 books.