Museums - Musée d'Art Moderne de Troyes

Pierre and Denise Lévy established the foundation that lead to the creation of this museum. The museum’s fauvist and expressionist works are complemented by the installation of eighty-one non-European pieces, mainly masks, statuettes, drums and stools. The museum endeavors to show the relationship between these trends in Western art and what was then newly discovered African art. Some of the objects come from the Félix Fénéon and Paul Guillaume sales, most notably a Benin bronze Oba, formerly in the collection of André Derain. The museum allows one to appreciate the delicate lines of a feminine Guro mask from Côte d’Ivoire alongside the Portrait of Jeanne Hébuterne by Modigliani, which it probably influenced.