Passion Post-impressionniste. Histoire d'une collection

Passion Post-impressionniste, Paris, Éditions Lord Byron, 2025

First edition
Edition of 550 copies
Hardcover, 23 x 28 cm, 144 pages
French edition
ISBN: 978-2-488446-14-3

Passion Post-impressionniste is the catalogue of the exhibition of the same name, held from 15 October 2025 to 15 February 2026 at the Musée Lambinet in Versailles. Nearly 50 works are presented, brought together by the collector couple Fernande Guy (1903–2004) and Marcel Guy (1901–1991). This exhibition takes place almost 20 years after the bequest of their collection to the museum, following an unprecedented restoration campaign covering almost all of the paintings and the great majority of the drawings.
The exhibition retraces the formation of this collection, which began in 1946, after the war, with their first purchase, Champs de blé en Normandie by Gustave Loiseau. The collection subsequently grew to include 24 paintings and 21 drawings, spanning the period from 1880 to 1929. It brings together landscapes of Paris, the Île-de-France, Brittany and Normandy created by major figures of the artistic scene of the time, including Gustave Loiseau (1865–1935), Maximilien Luce (1858–1941), Henry Moret (1856–1913) and Paul Signac (1863–1935).

Maurice Asselin (Orléans, 1882 – Neuilly-sur-Seine, 1947)

Henri-Edmond Cross (Douai, 1856 – Saint-Clair, 1910)

Georges d’Espagnat (Melun, 1870 – Paris, 1950)

Georges Guido Filiberti (Milan, 1881 – Neuilly-sur-Seine, 1970)

Jean-Louis Forain (Reims, 1852 – Le Chesnay, 1931)

Armand Guillaumin (Paris, 1841 – Orly, 1927)

Henri Harpignies (Valenciennes, 1819 – Saint-Privé, 1916)

Max Jacob (Quimper, 1876 – Drancy internment camp, 1944)

Marie Laurencin (Paris, 1883 – Paris, 1956)

Henri Lebasque (Champigné, 1865 – Le Cannet, 1937)

Albert Lebourg (Montfort-sur-Risle, 1849 – Rouen, 1928)

Gustave Loiseau (Paris, 1865 – Paris, 1935)

Maximilien Luce (Paris, 1858 – Paris, 1941)

Aristide Maillol (Banyuls-sur-Mer, 1861 – Perpignan, 1944)

William Malherbe (Bucharest, 1884 – Paris, 1951)

Maxime Maufra (Nantes, 1861 – Poncé, 1918)

Henry Moret (Cherbourg-Octeville, 1856 – Paris, 1913)

Henry Ottmann (Ancenis, 1877 – Vernon, 1927)

Pierre Puvis de Chavanne (Lyon, 1824 – Paris, 1898)

Paul Signac (Paris, 1863 – Paris, 1935)

Alfred Sisley (Paris, 1839 – Moret-sur-Loing, 1899)

Suzanne Tourte (Cormontreuil, 1904 – Argenteuil, 1979)

Frank Will (Nanterre, 1900 – Clichy, 1950)

Raphaële Fresnais holds a Master’s degree in Art History from the Université François Rabelais de Tours and a Master’s degree in Heritage Promotion from Université Paris I – Panthéon-Sorbonne. She is a freelance illustrator and, since 2022, Head of Communications at the Musée Lambinet in Versailles.

Alice Gamblin is in charge of collections management and documentation at the Musée Lambinet in Versailles.

Émilie Maisonneuve is Chief Heritage Curator, a graduate of the École du Louvre and the Institut National du Patrimoine. She previously directed the Musée d’Art et d’Histoire de Meudon, after serving as Deputy Director of the Saint-Maur Museum. Since 2018, she has headed the Musée Lambinet, the Espace Richaud and the Carré à la farine in Versailles.