Catherine ISERT admits that she was very touched by the celebration of the 50th anniversary of the gallery she opened in 1975 in Saint-Paul-de-Vence (Alpes-Maritimes): “They were all there, it was wonderful!” »» The artists with whom she worked all this time, certain collectors or museum people, the faithful-like Jean de Loisy, Jean-Louis Prat or Jennifer Flay, who testified in the retrospective book that she published on this occasion-found themselves, on June 28, as if all started again. Finally, those who are still alive: Jacques Prévert, among others, lacked to the call. Like Jean Fournier, Aimé Maeght, Leo Castelli or Ileana Sonnabend. These were the good fairies who looked into his cradle.
Prévert, Catherine ISERT knew her when she was a child. The poet came to Provence with his family during the occupation. “He had a daughter, Michelle, called” Minette “, who was my age, and we were raised together. It was with her daughter, Eugénie Bachelot-Prévert, that I organized, much later, in 1997, an exhibition on Prévert and her friends, at the Museum of Saint-Paul-de-Vénce »says Catherine ISERT.
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