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Pierre-André Farcy (18 May 1882 - 5 July 1950) was a French museum curator, designer and artist, heading the Museum of Grenoble (1919-1943 and 1946-1949) and musée Fantin-Latour (1949-1950). He was popularly known as Andry-Farcy.
He brought contemporary art into the Grenoble collection, becoming a pioneer of contemporary art displays in the 1920s and providing a template for other French towns after the Second World War, stating:
My plans are simple: to continue to make to do the opposite of what my predecessors did. I open the door to young people, to those who bring a new form into a writing that I have never seen before! That is the rule… which will allow us to create the only modern museum in France.
He developed strong relationships with contemporary artists, acquiring an important collection of modern art (Picasso, Bonnard, Matisse) and transforming the Museum of Grenoble into one of France's main art collections. He received bequests from Agutte-Sembat, which added neo-Impressionist and Fauve works, along with the Fantin-Latour donation, which added drawings and engravings. Even artists such as Picasso, Bonnard and Matisse donated their own and others' works. Even if not all his acquisitions were of the same quality, the main masterpieces now in the museum are down to his choices and curiosity at a time when many museums refused to acquire and exhibit these innovative and contested artists.