Boussoles particulières. Arts décoratifs – Arts appliqués un instrument efficace visant à

un instrument efficace visant à un premier approfondissement de la figure d’un peintre qui fut

the historical and political framework of their work

which has nourished their imagination and creativity

Let us prepare ourselves: we will cross rivers and battlefields

Dossier thématique: L'imaginaire utopique

Boussoles particulières. Arts décoratifs – Arts appliqués un instrument efficace visant àLon Paul Fargue, born in Paris in 1876, became friends with many artists, musicians, and writers who frequented the cabarets of Montmartre. While he became known as a chronicler of the high society and popular life of Paris during the Belle poque, he was above all a poet of tenderness and a restrained lyricism that most often took the form of nostalgia. This love of the past, of the vanished, is found here in the portraits he paints of the great