10.04.2019 — 08.09.2019
Les drôles de petites bêtes d’Antoon Krings
Curator : Anne Monier
André Bauchant, Joan Miró, Maria Helena Vieira da Silva
Musée des Arts Décoratifs, Paris, France
Hors les murs
The Musée des Arts Décoratifs presents an exhibition dedicated to the series Les Drôles de Petites Bêtes created by Antoon Krings, a major artist-illustrator of children’s literature.
The exhibition will be organized around five central themes: flora and fauna, the garden, the Arts & Crafts Movement, animals in literature and the audio-visual adaptation of the world of Les Drôles de Petites Bêtes.
This retrospective – the first ever dedicated to Antoon Krings – will immerse visitors into a world of childhood wonder.
For this exhibition, the gallery lends a work by the Naive artit André Bauchant, Les Clématites, 1943, the edition Il était une petite pie, 1928 by Lise Hirtz illustrated by Joan Miró and La hutte de Kô & Kô, 1933 by Maria Helena Vieira da Silva.
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