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Art16 October 2026 · 2 min

Van Gogh's bandaged-ear self-portrait is back in France for the first time since 1937, in a Gustave Fayet show

Loans from 64 institutions and 71 private collections bring his scattered collection back together after a century.

The Fondation Louis Vuitton in Paris opened Gustave Fayet, collectionneur, créateur: icônes de l'art moderne on 9 October 2026, an exhibition on the collector and designer Gustave Fayet (1865–1925). It fills the whole building with more than 700 works and documents, in two parts on Fayet the collector and Fayet the creator. Sylvie Patry, chief curator at the Musée d'Orsay, curated it with Angeline Scherf of the Fondation, and Robert Carsen designed the scenography.

More than 250 works from his dispersed collection are shown together for the first time in a century, on loan from 64 institutions and 71 private collections. The show includes 10 paintings by Van Gogh and 78 works by Gauguin. Fayet was among the first to collect Van Gogh, and kept a "Gauguin museum" of nearly 200 works in his Paris home. Van Gogh's Self-Portrait with Bandaged Ear and Pipe (January 1889) has not been exhibited in France since 1937 or lent to any exhibition since 1990; here it is paired with Gauguin's Self-Portrait with Palette.

In 1908 Fayet bought the Cistercian abbey of Fontfroide, intending to turn it into a "total work of art", and commissioned Odilon Redon to decorate its library. Redon's panels Le Jour, La Nuit and Le Silence are being shown to the public for the first time; Le Jour alone measures 200 x 650 cm.

Fayet's own work began with a stoneware workshop in Béziers, run with Louis Paul from 1896 to 1904. From about 1912 he painted watercolours on blotting paper, later adapted into wallpaper, fabrics and carpets. "A beautiful blot can be the starting point for a beautiful drawing," Fayet said. His Atelier de la Dauphine, founded in Paris in 1920, made carpets for buyers including Jeanne Lanvin, Jacques Doucet, Robert de Rothschild and the Maharaja of Indore. Most of the creations on show had never been exhibited and were restored for the occasion, along with about 10 dresses linked to Paul Poiret, Doucet and Lanvin.

Gustave Fayet, collectionneur, créateur runs until 8 March 2027 at the Fondation Louis Vuitton, 8 avenue du Mahatma Gandhi, Paris 16e.