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Cantini Museum

The Cantini Museum is a museum of modern and contemporary art housed in a historic building constructed in 1694 for the Compagnie du Cap Nègre, which specialised in coral fishing and trading in wool, wax and leather. The building was acquired by Jules Cantini in 1888 and donated to the city of Marseille in 1916 on condition that it become a museum, opening to the public in 1936. It holds one of France's largest public collections of the 1900-1960 period, with works of Fauvism (Charles Camoin, Othon Friesz), Pointillism (Paul Signac), Cubism (Raoul Dufy, Albert Gleizes, Jacques Villon, Amédée Ozenfant, Henri Laurens), geometric abstraction (Kandinsky, František Kupka, Jean Hélion, Alberto Magnelli, Julio González), Expressionism (Oskar Kokoschka), Dadaism (Francis Picabia) and Surrealism (Max Ernst, André Masson, Victor Brauner, Joseph Cornell, Roberto Matta, Jean Arp). It also includes later works by Pablo Picasso, Fernand Léger, Le Corbusier, Nicolas de Staël, Alberto Giacometti, Balthus, Tàpies, Jean Dubuffet, Francis Bacon, Antonin Artaud and Maria Helena Vieira da Silva. Its collection of drawings includes works by André Derain, Pierre Bonnard, André Masson, Francis Picabia, Mark Rothko, Pablo Picasso, Edward Hopper, Victor Brauner and Jean Dubuffet. The photography collection began in 1968 with the exhibition L'Oeil objectif and has continued to grow with acquisitions of early and mid-20th-century photography. The museum also has a specialist library.

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