Jean Dupas, *L'Archer*, 1917, ADAGP, Paris, 2025. Photo : L. Gauthier, mairie de Bordeaux

Jean Dupas & Co

The great Art Déco

Exposition
Tout public

26 june - 29 november 2026

Galerie des Beaux-Arts

The exhibition will highlight the unique world of this artist, whose reputation spread from France to the United States in the 1920s and 1930s.

Jean Dupas, a major figure in Art Deco

Jean Dupas (1882-1964) was a painter, drawer, and poster artist, and one of the major figures in the Art Deco movement. His peculiar and timeless world, populated by slender female figures, graced the pavilions of major exhibitions, collectors’ interiors, transatlantic ocean liner salons, and official buildings.

Dupas left a mark on his era with his highly personal style, combining Mannerist influences and Cubist innovations, and by producing easily recognisable images, from large public decors to advertising icons in fashion magazines. Following in the tradition of Renaissance workshops, Dupas saw large-scale decors as the ultimate goal of his artistic project: “The bigger my work, the happier I am”.

Curators :

Sophie Barthélémy, general curator
Margaux Wymbs, curator of the 19th and 20th-century collections
Louis Deltour, associate curator

Price :

Museum admission

An exhibition dedicated to the golden age of Art Deco

Jean Dupas & Co. The Great Art Deco will shed light on the emergence of Art Deco in Bordeaux and explore the art of Dupas up to the 1940s, focusing on the apotheosis of the 1920s and 1930s, illustrated by the International Exhibition of Decorative and Industrial Arts and the decorative programmes of transatlantic liners.

The exhibition aims to bring together a wide range of techniques in order to reflect the multidisciplinary ambition of the Art Deco movement and illustrate the fruitful dialogue between Dupas and his circle across different media. Dupas’s pictorial and graphic works will thus be presented alongside sculptures, ceramics, drawings, lacquer and glass panels, as well as posters and advertising magazines.

It will also pays particular attention to integrating the artist into his circle in Bordeaux, as well as those in Paris and Rome, and to recreating the dynamic artistic exchanges of the period to which he contributed greatly, both in France and abroad.

Beyond its original approach, this exhibition resonates with the national celebrations marking the centenary of the 1925 International Exhibition of Decorative and Industrial Arts, which brought Jean Dupas to prominence.