Musée Zervos

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The Zervos Museum - Romain-Rolland House is a modern art museum (1925-1965) located in Vézelay.

Description of the museum: The establishment is housed in an old house where the writer Romain Rolland lived from 1938 and where he died in 1944. The museum, opened in 2006, houses the most beautiful pieces from the collection left in 1970 to the city of Vézelay by Christian Zervos. Critique et éditeur d'art, founder of Les Cahiers d'art magazine published from 1926 to 1960, Christian Zervos met the greatest artists of the twentieth century. On the ground floor, small sculptures and an impressive cast-iron relief of Henri Laurens are alongside a large Calder mobile, while in the Picasso room, works by Pablo Picasso and Julio González show the links between these two artists. Upstairs there are sculptures by Giacometti, paintings by Ernst (La Sauterelle), Kandinsky, Miró, Jean Hélion, Victor Brauner and Willi Baumeister. For the 1950s, works by Jacques Villon, Nicolas de Staël, Serge Poliakoff, Joseph Sima or Étienne Hajdu. Romain Rolland's room is preserved; furniture of the writer is presented there. In the attic are...