After the Second World War, Paris gradually lost its role as the world capital of Western art to New York City. At the same time, many American artists, more than 400, fascinated by the City of Light, its museums, the French masters, but also by personal or political choice, decided to settle temporarily or permanently in the French capital and make it the place of their artistic creation. The exhibition "United States of Abstraction: American Artists in France (1946-1964)", held at the Fabre Museum in Montpellier, unveils to the public works from American art in France, revealing the revival of geometric abstraction characteristic of artists such as Ellsworth Kelly, Ralph Coburn and Robert Breer, as well as the individuality of key abstract colourists such as Sam Francis and Joan Mitchell. More information on the Musée Fabre website.