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Marthurin Meheut, un artiste combattant

Marthurin Meheut, a fighter artist
From march 8 to june 2 2003
Modern art
From 1914 and 1918, Mathurin Méheut was part of an infantry regiment as a simple soldier. During those four years, he did not cease sketching the "poilus'" -the soldiers'- daily life. To show the horror of the conflict through his watercolors, gouaches and drawings.

Musée des beaux-arts d'Arras

Abbaye Saint-Vaast
22, rue Paul Doumer
62000 Arras - France

Téléphone 03 21 71 26 43
Fax 03 21 23 19 26
Mail musee.arras@ville-arras.fr
Web http:/ / www.musenor.org
Hours :
Horaire(s) d'ouverturefrom 9:30 am to 12 pm
and from 2 pm to 5:30 pm
Thursday from 9:30 am to 5:30 pm
Tuesday
New Year`s Day, Labour day (May, 1st), Victory Day 1945 (May, 8), Bastille Day (July, 14), All Saints`Day (November, 1st), Armistice Day 1918 (november, 11), Christmas Day
Admission :
Admission fee : 4 €
Concessions : 2 € Students, Families, Teachers, over 65, Families, Museum friends
Free : july-august
Marthurin Meheut the trophies, 1916, © Adagp 2003