Arles Moderne

Son of the artist Alfred Latour, an archaeologist by training but open to the art of his time, Jacques Latour was the first curator to introduce the concept of temporary exhibitions to the museum when he took up his post in 1949. Through his projects, which were highly innovative for the time, he aimed to turn the Réattu into a museum of twentieth-century art, a type of institution that was virtually non-existent in France at the time. He brought into the city's collections the first works...