This new museum, a private initiative, will allow the public, from March 18, 2017, to discover or rediscover the work of Jean Couty (1907-1991), a major artist from Lyon who was one of the great figures of French painting of the twentieth century.

Photo: DR

In 1933, Jean Couty graduated from the school of architecture, in the studio of Tony Garnier who had advised him, in 1922, to take courses at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Lyon. Jean Couty received the Prix de la Critique de Paris in 1950, after Lorjou and Buffet. In 1959, he was the first painter to illustrate the National Lottery ticket, then, in 1964, he created the United Nations Christmas postcard, after Picasso, Chagall and Miro. In 1975, he won the Grand Prix des Peintres Témoins de leur Temps, a show where he exhibited every year from 1951 and which also brought together great masters such as Matisse, Duffy, Chagall, Van Dongen and young artists of the time including Yves Brayer, Buffet, Louis Toffoli, Claude Venard ...

Les filles de joie - Oil on canvas - 195 x 200 cm - 1972 © MuséeJeanCouty

In addition, in 1979, Jean Couty was one of the first living French artists to exhibit at the Musée d'art moderne de la Ville de Paris: the museum devoted a major retrospective to him and exhibited him at the same time as Jackson Pollock.

Also, for 40 years, Katia Granoff, international art dealer and friend of the great masters of the twentieth century: in particular Chagall, Picasso, Othon Friesz, Amédée Ozenfant, represented Jean Couty. In 1945, the Galerie Granoff exhibited Le Bénédicité, a painting noticed and admired by Picasso.

Pratical information

JEAN COUTY MUSEUM
1 Place Henri Barbusse
Saint-Rambert - L'Ile Barbe
LYON 69009
Tel: + 33 (0) 4 72 42 20 00
www.museejeancouty.fr

Opening time :

The museum is open from Wednesday to Sunday, from 11 a.m. to 18 p.m.

Closing :

The museum will be closed every January 1, May 1, November 1 and December 25

Prices / Entrance ticket

  • full price : 6 €
  • reduced price :  4 €
  • free for less than 12 years