The Musée Réattu is devoting its summer exhibition to Pierre Jahan, some of whose works are in its collection. This is his first museum retrospective.
Pierre Jahan is notable for the freedom of his approach and the considerable variety of an output embracing Surrealism and advertising collages, together with chronicles and reportages on the Paris of the 1940s. Focusing in particular on the various masterly series made between the 1930s and the 1950s, the selection highlights the crossover between his experimental and his everyday work. Comprising mainly vintage prints, the exhibition brings together one hundred and fifty images, mock-ups and objects from private collections—the Michèle Chomette Gallery in Paris, the Charles Chadwyck Collection—and public institutions: the Musée du Louvre, Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Musée National d’Art Moderne, Archives des Musées Nationaux, Fonds National d’Art Contemporain and the Institut de la Mémoire de l’Édition Contemporaine in Caen, where the Jahan collection is held.

Michèle Moutashar, conservateur en chef du Patrimoine, and director of the Musée Réattu, exhibition curator.