ALBERT MARQUET in Japan • First stop: Hiroshima!: Art Museum Exhibition
"We are honored to contribute to this retrospective, which will allow Japanese audiences to rediscover the sensitivity and modernity of Albert Marquet, a major painter of landscape and light in the 20th Century. These loans reflect Galerie de la Presidence's commitment to promoting French artistic heritage abroad."
Florence Chibret-Plaussu
Director of Galerie de la Présidence
Albert Marquet a retrospective, in Japan
From 11 April to 13 December 2026
Event Exhibition dedicated to Albert Marquet touring Japan from 11 April to 13 December 2026, organized by four major Japanese museums and Kyodo News (Famous national press agency in Japan).
- First venue: Hiroshima Museum of Art (western region), from 11 April to 31 May 2026
- Then: Kurume City Art Museum (southern region), from 9 June to 29 July 2026
- Next: Mie Prefectural Art Museum (central region), from 8 August to 13 September 2026
- Finally in Tokyo: Sompo Museum of Art, from 22 September to 13 December 2026
No less than 90 works will be presented, including around 60 oils and 30 pastels and drawings, lent by major museums and galleries as well as private collectors in France and Japan. These include significant loans from the Musée des Beaux-Arts de Bordeaux (MusBa), the Musée d’Art Moderne André Malraux – Le Havre (MuMa), and the Musée des Beaux-Arts et d’Archéologie de Besançon (MBAA). One third of the works will come from Japanese collections.
Galerie de la Présidence is contributing to the exhibition by lending—directly or through its involvement—no fewer than 15 works (13 oils and 2 pastels).
Curated by Sophie Krebs, Chief Curator at the Musée d’Art Moderne de Paris, this is the first exhibition devoted to Albert Marquet in Japan in 35 years. Celebrating the 150th anniversary of his birth, the retrospective invites Japanese and Southeast Asian audiences to discover—or rediscover—the French master, offering a fresh reading and new perspectives on his work.
Marquet was first exhibited in Japan in 1920, at a time when the country was also discovering the Impressionist canvases of Monet and Renoir. It was during these same years that several renowned Japanese collectors—such as Kôjirô Matsukata (National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo) and Magosaburô Ohara (Ohara Museum of Art, Kurashiki)—acquired a number of Marquet’s major works. Today, more than 60 of Marquet’s works are held in Japanese collections.
A bilingual catalogue illustrating all the works on display is published for the occasion, featuring essays by French and Japanese art historians.
