Alexandre Lafore
Articles
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Manet and Degas, from the Musée d’Orsay (and the Met) to the Bibliothèque nationaleWith its hand on its heart and its mind preoccupied with soaring insurance and transport costs, the Musée d’Orsay swears that we won’t be seeing such a collection again any time soon, brought in…
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A new Samuel van Hoogstraten for DordrechtPerspectiefstuk: it is difficult to translate into English the Dutch word for this splendid perspective view painted by Samuel van Hoogstraten, which we had already noticed last year when the…
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The Petit Palais exhibits its latest purchasesSince nature abhors a vacuum, it seemed a shame to close off part of the lower level of the Paris museum between temporary exhibitions, even if the two rotundas framing the gallery where the…
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An archangel by Vivarini lands in ToursSince the beginning of May, a very beautiful archangel has appeared among the Tours museum’s collection of Italian paintings, disrupting the hanging to the point of replacing the two famous panels…
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Alain Delon disperses his last treasures"Millet is my passion, my god in drawing" declared Alain Delon to our colleague Harry Bellet in an interview back in 2007. So it comes as no surprise to see four works by the artist in the…
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A Medusa by Böcklin for the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of ArtWatching its victims from one fair to the next, from Frieze Masters to Tefaf, this striking effigy of Medusa waited until the last edition of the Maastricht fair to strike the emissaries of the…
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A relief by Armand Point for the Musée des Arts décoratifsPeintre symboliste adepte de la Rose-Croix, Armand Point fut un créateur atypique dont on apprécie bien plus volontiers aujourd’hui les objets d’arts que les tableaux. Après avoir débuté une carrière…
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Four exhibitions in Paris galleriesJune promises to be a particularly busy month for the Paris art market, with a cascade of public sales (article to follow) and several exhibitions organised by galleries. The opening of a new one…
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Stockholm buys its first painting by Marguerite GérardAdjudicataire malheureux de L’Élève intéressante aussitôt préemptée par le Louvre lors de la vente de la collection Ribes chez Sotheby’s à Paris en décembre 2019, le musée suédois ne pouvait que repartir…
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A drawing by Jean-Baptiste Oudry for the Château de FontainebleauThe third day of the Festival de l’histoire de l’art was brightened by some excellent news: just as the event was drawing to a close, the Château de Fontainebleau sent an emissary to the sale…