Yves Brayer : Les Années Romaines

Exhibition at the Lavaur Museum, 18 May - 15 September 2013

Yves Brayer (1907-1990) won the Grand Prix de Rome for painting in 1930 and spent three and a half years at the Villa Medici. These Roman years proved decisive in the artist's career. His temperament led him to abandon copying to immerse himself in the bustling life of the capital. A harvest of images, oils, gouaches, watercolours, drawings and monotypes, which tell us more about the very special life of Fascist Rome, a city in the throes of change, crossed by the red robes of the seminarians and the disturbing shadows of the militia.

This exhibition catalogue brings together more than 80 of Brayer's early works.