Present day
17-02-10
Agreement with the Pompidou Centre for the Georges Rouault exhibition
The Bilbao Fone Arts Museum and the Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, reach an agreement for the Georges Rouault. The Sacred adn the Profane exhibition towards the end of this year.
Conversations between representatives of the Bilbao Fine Arts Museum and the Pompidou Centre, Paris, have seen their rewards in the shape of a first agreement which, according to the declarations of both parties, represents the first step of a much-closer relationship between both institutions. The agreement concerns the exhibition of works by French painter, print-maker, ceramist and maker of stained-glass, Georges Rouault (Paris, 1871-1958) in Bilbao. The Exhibition will include several important works of art that were bequeathed to the Paris museum upon the painter’s death.