The Collections

Since 1989, the association Présence Van Gogh – Musée Estrine has built up an important collection of paintings, faithful to the desire of the brilliant Dutch artist installed in Saint-Rémy in 1889-1890, who wanted “… living painters are no longer so unfairly ignored.” The central figures of the collection are Vincent van Gogh, whose museum retains no work while hosting an interpretation center dedicated to him, and Albert Gleizes, the cubist painter and theorist, who settled Saint-Rémy in 1927 with his wife Juliette Roche, herself a painter and writer, to create an artistic community at the heart of an agricultural project.

The collection was built primarily through donations, initially by artists:
Joseph Alessandri, Eduardo Arroyo, Vincent Bioulès, Jean Pierre Blanche, Jean-Jacques Ceccarelli, Gérard Drouillet, Thomas Fougeirol, Gérard Fromanger, Denis Laget, Eugène Leroy, Alain Grosajt and many others.
As well as families of artists, such as Violaine Menu-Branthomme for André Marchand, the Gillet, Pignon, Doucet or Zack families.
But also collectors who are friends of the museum:
Philippe Latourelle, main patron and founder of the museum, Pierre Bergé and Madison Cox, the brothers Philippe and Dominique Tailleur, Evelyne Cail and Alexandre Galperine, the Albert Gleizes Foundation, etc.
The collection of the Estrine museum can be consulted on the Joconde database: Catalogue collectif des collections des musées de France