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A Brancusi exhibition thanks to future renovations at the Centre PompidouSecondary school students should be revising for their philosophy exams at the Centre Pompidou, where the exhibition devoted to Constantin Brancusi will give them the opportunity to tackle a…
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National Gallery of Art acquires a painting by Elizabeth Okie PaxtonRather than depicting a female nude languidly reclining on a bed, Elizabeth Okie Paxton chose not to show it, but to evoke its presence in a cleverly organised bedroom. So she paints a genre…
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The new directors of the museums of Lille and StrasbourgNew curators have arrived at the helm of the museums of Lille and Strasbourg in recent months. The Palais des Beaux-Arts and the Musée de l’Hospice Comtesse in Lille have been headed by Juliette…
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Fundraising for the Musée des Impressionnismes de GivernyThe first Impressionist exhibition opened in Paris in 1874. Several museums are celebrating this 150th anniversary, including the one in Giverny, which has the audacity to tackle a relatively…
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A tapestry by Gerhard Munthe acquired by OrsayPurchased from the Oscar Graf gallery, a large tapestry by the Norwegian Gerhard Munthe joins the collections of the Musée d’Orsay, which is continuing its active policy of acquiring Scandinavian…
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Hélène Duret to succeed Bruno GaudichonOne of France’s most endearing and unique museums is about to undergo a change of leadership with the announced departure of Bruno Gaudichon for a well-deserved retirement: as revealed by La Voix…
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A Manfredi for the GettyIt’s a happy company, at least at first sight. A group of men are drinking wine around an improvised table that looks like an ancient Roman altar, while listening to one of them play the lute.…
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Several paintings put up for sale by TajanThe shadow of the great masters hangs over the Tajan sale on 21 June in Paris, which brings together several paintings whose attribution is not certain, but whose quality is undeniable. This is…
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The Vallayer-Coster acquired by the National Gallery of Art in WashingtonThe painting is superb, that’s for sure. It is painted by a woman, no less. This still life by Anne Vallayer-Coster was therefore the perfect choice for acquisition by the National Gallery of Art…
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A landscape by Patel preempted by the Musée du Grand SiècleThis was undoubtedly one of the finest pictures at Christie’s Paris sale on 15 June, but it was nevertheless sold for less than the low estimate. Such are the vagaries of auctions. Be that as it…
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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 first painting by Cézanne for the National Gallery of IrelandThe National Gallery of Ireland - which Caroline Campbell took over from Sean Rainbird last November - has acquired its first painting by Paul Cézanne. Life in the Fields was acquired from the…
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Paintings for sale at Christie’s in ParisSometimes painters choose to work without color, playing only with shades of black and white, or brown. Christie’s will be selling a large-format grisaille in Paris on June 15. It depicts the Last…
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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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Paintings auctions at Sotheby’sSeveral 17th century masterpieces will be auctioned by Sotheby’s in Paris on 13 and 14 June, but the most important paintings from different periods will be sold in London in July. Some of them…
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Two collections put up for sale by Sotheby’s and Artcurial in ParisThe Paris art market is still buzzing in June. In addition to the sales of paintings, to which we will return later, Sotheby’s and Artcurial will be auctioning two collections, one of sculptures…
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A terracotta model by François Anguier at auctionThis is certainly a masterpiece that deserves to be declared a National Treasure and added to French public collections. Designed by François Anguier, the funerary monument of Jacques de Souvré,…
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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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A painting by Adrìa Gual acquired by OrsayHighly acclaimed last November at Paris Fine Arts & La Biennale, where it was presented by the Mendes gallery, Adrià Gual’s large canvas of Joan of Arc has been acquired by the Musée d’Orsay.…
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Strasbourg’s Vouet restoredIt is one of the masterpieces of the Musée des Beaux-Arts de Strasbourg, but visitors were desperate to be able to admire the Saint Catherine by Simon Vouet, acquired in 2019. A delicate…
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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…
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Louvre: paper catalogue also available to download free of chargePublishing books on the internet - we did this recently thanks to Thierry Zimmer who entrusted us with his catalogue raisonné on the nineteenth-century painter Antoine Rivoulon (which you can…
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A painting by Beccafumi for the Pinacoteca di SienaSince February, this Italian museum, now run by a Frenchman, the former director of the Musée des Augustins in Toulouse, Axel Hémery, has been showing a new painting by the 16th-century Sienese…
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A painting by Edward Mitchell Bannister for WorcesterSlavery had been abolished for almost thirty years when Edward Mitchell Bannister painted this work, which at first sight seems to depict an idyllic nature or at least a picturesque country…
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A first sculpture by Camille Claudel for StockholmAlthough its collections include a fine group of sculptures and drawings by Auguste Rodin, the Nationalmuseum in Stockholm previously held no works by his pupil, assistant and companion Camille…
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A Caravaggesque spring at VersaillesSent to board in Amiens for the duration of the "Louis XV, passions d’un roi" exhibition, the "masterpieces from the King’s bedroom" naturally returned to Versailles in the spring, although they…