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Dive into the Brache-Bonnefoi collection at Beaulieu-en-Rouergue Abbey!
Take a closer look at nearly 1,000 works of art!
The Brache-Bonnefoi collection includes over 1,000 works (paintings, drawings, prints and artist's books, sculptures, textiles, non-European works...) by 151 different artists!
The exhibition brings together the Parisian avant-garde art scene of the post-World War II years, focusing onlyrical abstraction andinformal art, as well as works by regional artists.
This is one of the first collections of its kind in France, forming a coherent and representative body of art from the second half of the 20th century! The monument also preserves a collection of lapidary elements from the site, present on the base.
The Centre des Monuments Nationaux has benefited from the generosity of Geneviève Bonnefoi and Pierre Brache and the cultural association they set up through several donations (1973, 1981, 2019, 2022), thus becoming the full owner of Beaulieu-en-Rouergue Abbey and its rich collection of modern art.
What is Collectio?
Access this inventory extracted from the " Collectio " inventory database, which enables the dissemination of knowledge on the collections conserved in 76 sites managed by the Centre des monuments nationaux.
More than 12,300 of the 137,000 items of cultural property conserved are protected as Monuments Historiques. 72,000 of these items are already available on Collectio.
The collections include fine art, archaeology, popular arts and traditions, contemporary art, ethnology, natural sciences, numismatics, libraries and archives. As part of the Department for the Conservation of Monuments and Collections, the Inventory's missions are to establish the ownership status of cultural assets, and to study, inventory, collect, manage and disseminate collections. Assets that may be registered in the inventory are those of historical or aesthetic interest. They come under public ownership and are therefore inalienable and imprescriptible.