De Rembrandt à Van Gogh : collectin Armand Hammer

Exhibition at the Fondation Gianadda, Martigny, 20 June – 2 December 2025

Bringing together nearly forty major works from the prestigious Hammer Museum (UCLA, Los Angeles), this exhibition catalogue offers an illuminating journey through Western painting, from the Renaissance to the dawn of the 20th century. The collection is distinguished by its stylistic coherence and expressive richness, bringing together ancient masterpieces and modern brilliance in a single humanist spirit. From Rembrandt to Van Gogh, Fragonard to Monet, European masters rub shoulders with American artists, revealing a fascinating chapter in the history of transatlantic art.

This book explores the history of a unique collection: that of Armand Hammer (1898-1990), a visionary industrialist, passionate patron of the arts and erudite collector. Far from being a simple accumulation of rare objects, this collection is an aesthetic odyssey, guided by a quest for harmony, transmission and intelligibility of the world through art.