Musée d'Art moderne de Céret, Modern art museum in Céret, France.
The Musée d'Art moderne de Céret occupies a building whose ground level is clad in light tan stone blocks forming a colonnade with four deep recesses; above, smooth light grey stucco carries five dark-framed windows across two floors, with a dark blue canopy projecting from the top edge. It was inaugurated on 18 June 1950 in rooms of a 17th-century former Carmelite convent, and a new building was inaugurated by President François Mitterrand on 17 December 1993.
The museum was founded in 1950 when Pierre Brune and Frank Burty Haviland established the institution with direct support from leading artists. This early collaboration with major 20th-century creators gave the museum a significant collection from its beginning.
The museum takes its name from Céret, a town that became a gathering place for artists throughout the 20th century. The collection reflects how this location drew creators from across Europe and continues to show how their works connect the region to the international art world.
The museum closed for expansion work in October 2019 and reopened on 5 March 2022. It occupies rooms of a 17th-century former Carmelite convent, and the building inaugurated on 17 December 1993 by President François Mitterrand houses the enlarged displays. The entrance on the street shows a three-level facade with a stone-block colonnade at ground level.
In summer 1953 Picasso visited Pierre Brune and gave the museum a series of plates on bullfighting themes. The same day, after a Communist Party celebration in his honour, he drew the Sardane de la Paix at the Grand Café. The museum holds 78 Picassos, 57 of them his own gifts.
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