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Two acquisitions for the Musée BonnardIt’s not really a portrait. When he painted little Isabelle Lecomte du Noüy in Le Cannet in 1929, Pierre Bonnard captured all the charm of childhood under his brush (ill. 1). The little girl is…
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Quimper adds to its 20th-century collectionThey are part of the section devoted to Max Jacob in the exhibition Fragments surréalistes, René Iché et les poètes currently on show at the Musée des beaux-arts de Quimper, a variant of the…
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17th-century embroidered masterpiece being acquired by AmiensThere are sometimes - often - acquisition projects that La Tribune de l’Art can only endorse, and invite its esteemed readers to do likewise: the exceptional antependium embroidered at the end of…
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Four sketches by Joseph Blanc donated to Rennes by his society of friendsYesterday, the Société des amis du Musée des Beaux-Arts de Rennes (Friends of the Musée des Beaux-Arts de Rennes) made a particularly relevant acquisition at Rennes Enchères, for the reasonable sum of…
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A sculpture by Gustave Doré for Orsay"It was not the least of the Salon’s astonishments to find G. Doré authoritatively marking his place among the sculptors with a large and highly poetic group: La Parque et l’Amour The public is…
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Bronze for the Musée de VizilleSince June 30, 2023, the Musée de la Révolution Française has been presenting a highly interesting exhibition entitled French Revolution Style. Furniture, works of art and wallpaper. Among the most…
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An absolute masterpiece of French decorative art enters the Musée d’OrsayWe admired it at Sotheby’s New York and hoped that the Musée d’Orsay would be able to acquire it, without really believing it because of its estimate. However, the Musée Orsay won the wonderful cup…
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A Bonzanigo and a Cartellier for the Château de MalmaisonThe effigy is recognisable at first glance, despite the overloaded decor of military trophies paying homage to the new master of Italy, even though Napoleon has not yet emerged from Bonaparte:…
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Two exceptional pedestals by André-Charles Boulle return to VersaillesThey were placed in the Salon de l’Abondance in the heart of the Grands Appartements du Roi at Versailles. The two exceptional pedestals by André-Charles Boulle had joined the Versailles…
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The Met exhibits its English drawingsLe Metropolitan Museum, à gauche en haut de son escalier principal, dispose d’un large espace, qui conduit notamment vers la peinture française du XIXe siècle, où il expose des œuvres d’art…
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