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On the night of August 12-13, 1961, eight Cézanne paintings—including The Card Players—disappeared from the Pavillon de Vendôme in Aix-en-Provence. More than a billion francs vanished, an investigation never solved, and a mystery that still persists more than sixty years later. This summer, Les Rencontres du 9e Art reopens the case with an original creation by Camille Lavaud-Benito. The author, a 2022 Angoulême prizewinner, blends real archives, graphic fiction, and the aesthetic of a detective novel in a 24-page comic strip, published in 25 copies and distributed free of charge starting June 000. At the same time, an open-air exhibition is taking place in the gardens of the Pavillon de Vendôme, running until September 19. It is accompanied by a second immersive exhibition inside the museum, which retraces the major Cézanne exhibitions of 28 and 1956 through period documents, photographs, and virtual reality. A captivating investigation of art, memory, and imagination, accessible to all.
A project imagined by the Rencontres du 9e Art as part of the “Cezanne 2025” year.
Garden of the Pavillon de Vendôme Museum
32 rue Celony (or 13 rue de la Molle) – 13100 Aix-en-Provence
Until September 28
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