Art in the Lot Valley

Many and many are the artists to have been inspired by the landscapes of Quercy. From the origin of humanity, at Pech-Merle (at Cabrerets), via Henri Martin (in Labastide-du-Vert) or André Breton (in Saint-Cirq Lapopie), embark on this overview of Art through the ages along the Lot valley.

Art in the Lot valley finds its origins here, in the cave of Pech Merle de Cabrerets, where you can admire more than 800 paintings dating from 29 years ago, as well as works created by nature: spectacular croncrétions, but also spinning tops and cave pearls.

Inspired and inspiring artist if any, André Breton, the leader of the Surrealists fell in love with the village of Saint-Cirq Lapopie for which he declared "I stopped wanting myself elsewhere". The house he bought and lived in is now maintained by the association La Rose Impossible.

Follow in the artist's footsteps and explore the surrounding galleries

What do the Capitole de Toulouse, the Élysée and the Lot Prefecture have in common? Henri-Martin, post-impressionist painter, who designed the sets in all these places. He had chosen to set up his studio in the Lot, at Labastide-du-Vert, near Cahors. It is therefore quite natural that the City of Cahors created a museum in his honor. Nature and light combine to offer the public ideal conditions for visiting. 52 paintings make up the Henri-Martin Collection. But the museum will be much more than the showcase of his works. Will also be exhibited monumental archaeological pieces, evoking Divona Carducorum, the Gallo-Roman name of Cahors and, further on, the medieval history of the city. Finally, Léon Gambetta, a native of Cahors, will also be honoured, through the history of ideas and the Third Republic.  
In short, a visit full of surprises, which will take you back in time, interactively (we won't tell you everything, it would be too easy).

Street art itinerary in Cahors

In the cozy atmosphere of the vaulted cellars of Cayx Castle, you will discover the primitive art collection African and Asian patiently and passionately brought together by the Prince Consor of Denmark. Asian jades, African statues and masks and Inuit works will surprise you with their beauty and diversity. 

Musician, singer, painter, poet… Nino Ferrer multiplied gifts and sensitivities. A mosaic of talent which combined so well with the palette of charms of Montcuq and white Quercy... He had chosen to put his instruments, his brushes, his family and his quest for serenity there.  
"The South" that he wrote here evoked precisely "all those places where you feel good", he explained. Montcuq always thinks of him, of his simplicity: one of his paintings evoking the village, visible at the town hall and a floor of the medieval tower devoted to his discography attest to this.