Sur les traces d’Odette du Puigaudeau / في أثر أوديت دو بويغودو

Sur les traces d'Odette du Puigaudeau / في أثر أوديت دو بويغودو is on in the temporary gallery at the Musée Yves Saint Laurent Marrakech from Saturday 3 October 2026 to Sunday 7 March 2027. Those dates sit on the museum's current exhibition page, on the CRT Visit Marrakech brief, and in the English press release dated for this show. The museum is closed Wednesday. Open days run 10:00 to 18:00, last entry 17:30, on museeyslmarrakech.com. Buy the QR ticket on tickets.jardinmajorelle.com. There is no door till.

Odette du Puigaudeau was born in Saint-Nazaire in 1894 and died in Rabat in 1991. The press release, CRT, and MAP coverage of the 2 October vernissage all treat this as the first exhibition devoted to her in Morocco, the country where she spent her last thirty years. Hayate Machache, head of collections at the Pierre Bergé Museum of Berber Arts and at mYSLm, curates with Monique Vérité, who wrote the 2001 biography Odette du Puigaudeau, une Bretonne au désert. Jasmin Oezcebi designed the rooms. She also designed the museum's Bert Flint and Théophile-Jean Delaye shows, the two earlier chapters in this Sahara-witness series. Director Alexis Sornin told MAP that this is the third chapter after Flint and Delaye.

More than 200 works and documents: photographs, drawings, watercolours, original plates, manuscripts, objects, radio archives, and documentary film. Sources named in the communiqué are the Pierre Bergé Museum of Berber Arts, the Fondation Jardin Majorelle, and private holdings, including Vérité's own collection. Drawings and plates by Odette and by Marion Sénones, her companion from 1931, sit in the same rooms. You hear radio tapes as you walk. Film clips include Théodore Monod and a griot song written for Odette. A nomad tent, the khaymat, is built inside the route, with saddles, chests, silver jewellery, Oualata clay dolls, and the women's hairstyles she called the masterpieces of Saharan women.

Three chapters. From Saint-Nazaire to Paris, 1894 to 1934: daughter of Pont-Aven painter Ferdinand du Puigaudeau, scientific illustrator, costume work, a stint at Jeanne Lanvin, seaman's papers in 1928, then the Paris bourse under a male byline. The call of the deserts, 1934 to 1961: on 28 November 1933 she and Sénones left Douarnenez on the lobster boat Belle-Hirondelle for Mauritania, unpaid and without an official mission. Later routes run Tiznit, the Tamanart valley, Foum el Hassan rock carvings, Chinguetti, Oualata, Timbuktu, and the 1937 azalaï salt caravan from Timbuktu to Taoudenni. Five years living with nomad camps. Books named in the dossier: Pieds nus à travers la Mauritanie (1936), La Grande foire des dattes (1937), Le Sel du désert (1940), then the ethnology treatise Arts et coutumes des Maures. Rabat, last port, 1961 to 1991: Moroccan radio, fieldwork, and from 1970 to 1977 the Prehistory Department at the Rabat Archaeological Museum. In 1964 she organised André Malraux's visit to Oued Tamanart, where she had already catalogued 114 engravings. Sénones died in Rabat in 1977. Odette in 1991.

The museum sits on Rue Yves Saint Laurent in Gueliz, opposite Jardin Majorelle. Petit taxi from the médina. Combined garden and museum tickets, or the museum alone, are sold only as timed QR codes. Jardins d'ailleurs, reading that ticket office on 7 October 2026, listed the foreign adult museum-only ticket at 140 MAD and the combined garden plus both museums at 330 MAD. Confirm the live tariff on the ticket site before you pay. Phone +212 524 31 30 47 or +212 524 29 86 86. Email info@museeyslmarrakech.com. Café Le Studio on site, +212 662 62 70 43. Press PDFs in Arabic, French and English are linked from the current-exhibition page.

Practical Details

Dates. Saturday 3 October 2026 to Sunday 7 March 2027. Temporary gallery.

Hours. Daily except Wednesday, 10:00 to 18:00, last entry 17:30.

Address. Rue Yves Saint Laurent, 40000 Marrakech, Gueliz, opposite Jardin Majorelle.

Tickets. Online only, tickets.jardinmajorelle.com. Foreign adult museum-only 140 MAD as listed on that office, checked 7 October 2026. Combined garden plus both museums 330 MAD. Under 10 free on the garden rules. Moroccan resident tariffs are lower. Recheck before you book.

Contact. info@museeyslmarrakech.com. T. +212 524 31 30 47, +212 524 29 86 86.

Français

Sur les traces d'Odette du Puigaudeau est présentée du samedi 3 octobre 2026 au dimanche 7 mars 2027 dans la galerie temporaire du musée Yves Saint Laurent Marrakech. Dates sur la page des expositions en cours, sur la fiche CRT et dans le communiqué. Fermé le mercredi. 10h00-18h00, dernier accès 17h30. Billet QR uniquement sur tickets.jardinmajorelle.com.

Plus de 200 œuvres et documents, collections du musée Pierre Bergé des arts berbères, de la Fondation Jardin Majorelle et de fonds privés, dont celui de Monique Vérité. Commissariat Hayate Machache et Monique Vérité. Scénographie Jasmin Oezcebi. Trois chapitres: Saint-Nazaire-Paris 1894-1934, les déserts 1934-1961, Rabat 1961-1991. Tente nomade au milieu du parcours, archives radio, extraits de films dont Théodore Monod. Première exposition marocaine consacrée à l'exploratrice née à Saint-Nazaire en 1894, morte à Rabat en 1991. Rue Yves Saint Laurent, Guéliz, face au Jardin Majorelle. Petit taxi. Tarif musée seul 140 MAD visiteur étranger adulte, relevé le 7 octobre 2026 sur la billetterie officielle. Combiné jardin et deux musées 330 MAD. Confirmer sur le site.

العربية

تُعرض في أثر أوديت دو بويغودو من السبت 3 أكتوبر 2026 إلى الأحد 7 مارس 2027 في القاعة المؤقتة بمتحف إيف سان لوران مراكش. المتحف مغلق الأربعاء. 10:00 إلى 18:00، آخر دخول 17:30. التذكرة الإلكترونية فقط على tickets.jardinmajorelle.com.

أكثر من 200 عمل ووثيقة من متحف بيير بيرجي للفنون الأمازيغية ومؤسسة حديقة ماجوريل ومجموعات خاصة. التنسيق: حياة مشاش ومونيك فيريتي. السينوغرافيا: ياسمين أوزجبي. ثلاثة فصول من سان نازير إلى الرباط. خيمة بدوية في المسار. أول معرض في المغرب للمستكشفة المولودة في 1894 والمتوفاة في الرباط 1991. العنوان: شارع إيف سان لوران، كليز، مقابل حديقة ماجوريل. تاكسي صغير. تذكرة المتحف للزائر الأجنبي البالغ 140 درهماً حسب مكتب التذاكر في 7 أكتوبر 2026. التذكرة الجامعة للحديقة والمتحفين 330 درهماً. راجعوا السعر قبل الدفع.