“the first museum in Europe dedicated to art by women artists,” as former commodities trader Christian Levett has described his ambitions for his antiquities museum in the south of France, has been announced. An Instagram post by Levett revealed that the Mougins Museum of Classical Art would close at the month’s end and reopen in June 2019.
The museum’s founder and current owner, Christian Levett, “is to give the museum a complete facelift,” The museum will close as a classical art museum on August 31, 2023, and reopen as an exhibition museum in the spring of 2024, displaying rotating shows of Modern and contemporary art.
We’re changing the museum’s name to honour the female artists who have shown their work there.
Levett announced the upcoming exhibition on Instagram, stating that it will feature works by artists such as Joan Mitchell, Lee Krasner, Elaine de Kooning, Howardena Pindell, Cecily Brown, and Nancy Graves from his personal collection.
Over the course of 25 years, Levett amassed a collection of classical antiquities, one of the largest in private hands, and a contemporary art collection, including works by artists like Damien Hirst and Marc Quinn, according to an interview he gave to the Financial Times in 2018. Nearly 250,000 people have visited his Mougins museum since it debuted in 2011, according to his website.
However, his method of collection shifted as the pandemic progressed. I began collecting works by female Abstract Expressionists while we were under lockdown. I looked at the lesser-known artists from that era as well. “Many works that have also been exhibited in the museums were available on the market [via] auction houses [and] other collections, and I began to put them back together,” Levett told Lampoon magazine.
Levett is also supporting a show at Oxford’s Ashmolean Museum featuring the work of Flora Yukhnovich and Daniel Crews-Chubb (until January 14, 2024). In an Instagram post, Levett exclaimed, “Incredibly happy for Daniel, whose career we nurtured at [Vigo Gallery in London] when I was the financing partner there from 2012-2018.”
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