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Exhibition Winter, 2010 - On 2011

During the winter months, the Gallery Madeline Jolly continues to cross(to go through) the various aspects of the collaboration of Jean Cocteau with Madeline Jolly’s workshop of Villefranche sur Mer. You can discover to this opportunity some projects drawings of ceramics, letters to her ceramists and workshop’s photographies.
The Gallery is opened everything in daytime by appointment.

New Slideshow

Virtual visit of our gallery in the column "Slideshow".

Exhibition summer 2010

The gallery will wait for the end of exhibition «Jean Cocteau, sur les pas d'un magicien» in the “Palais Lumière” of Evian on May 23rd, 2010 to start its summer exhibition;
We shall highlight the privileged relations of Jean Cocteau with workshops Madeline Jolly from 1957s till 1963, our visitors will be able to admire ceramics and documents displayed during the last two big exhibitions dedicated to the graphic work of the artist.

The jewel ceramic of Jean Cocteau

We put online on our site a collection of ceramic jewels drawn and conceived in 1958 by Jean Cocteau in Madeline Jolly Workshops at Villefranche sur Mer.
Made of several inlaid or engraved colored clays they seem to have been discovered in archaecological as Jean Cocteau wished digs.

They will be displayed in the windows of our gallery up to summer exhibitions.

Exhibition "L'artiste et sa ligne"

From July 5th to September 27th

Extracted from the book "The difficulty of being" Jean Cocteau depicted what was an artist's line.
"What is the line ? It's life. The line must live through each point of its way, so that the artist's presence stands out more than his model's".
This line that he recognized as well as from a painter, a writer and a musician represented : "the permanence of the personality [...] the style of the soul".
This line is what touchs us while looking at a piece of art.
Cocteau wrote, Cocteau drew, firmly following a line that he was dreading to lose, he created totally concentrated, his rapidity of creation was impressive.
The gallery exhibits some works matched with their sketches. Everyone could notice the constant worry of the artist about making a pure line.

Galerie Madeline Jolly
21 rue Eugène Fichot
Toulon sur Arroux 03 85 79 60 31
From Monday to Saturday - Closed on Wednesday and Sunday
Free access