Musée d'Art moderne de Troyes

Pierre and Denise Lévy made their money in the knitwear factories of Troyes, in the Champagne region, and spent much of it on modern art. In 1976 they gave nearly 2,000 works to the French state, on one firm condition, that the collection stay in Troyes, their home city. The old bishop's palace beside the cathedral was renovated to hold it, and the museum opened in 1982.

Their taste ran to the early 20th century and especially to the Fauves, the painters who around 1905 used colour straight and unmixed. André Derain is the heart of it, a painter the Lévys collected in depth, alongside Vlaminck, Braque, Dufy and Van Dongen.

Pierre Lévy was also a friend of sculptors, so the collection carries strong holdings of works on paper and sculpture, including pieces by the animal sculptor Rembrandt Bugatti, set among the African and Oceanic carvings the Fauves themselves had looked to.