Maurice Fréchuret is a preeminent art historian and senior curator for French cultural history.  After being Director of the CAPC Museum of Contemporary Art of Bordeaux  from 2001 to 2006, he was appointed Curator of the National Museums of the 20th Century in the Alpes-Maritimes (2006- 2014). He has organized numerous exhibitions and written in many catalogs, including: Images de l’exil, (forthcoming, 2021) ; L’Art et la vie – Comment les artistes rêvent de changer le monde XIXe – XXIe siècle, 2019; and Effacer, paradoxe d’un geste artistique, (Pierre Daix Prize 2016).