Didier Rykner
Articles
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Let’s get Chagall out of the Opera!
It is a fight for which we were pioneers: on November 2, 2003, exactly twenty years ago, just a few months after the birth of La Tribune de l’Art, we wrote in an article about the restoration of…
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Le Poittevin joins Bellangé in Fécamp, thanks to a donation
We recently reported on the purchase at auction by the Musée de Fécamp of a pebble painted by Hippolyte Bellangé. We recently reported on the purchase at auction by the Musée de Fécamp of a pebble…
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Amiens cathedral better protected against fire
The Ministry of Culture organised today a trip by Rima Abdul Malak to Amiens and the nearby village of Conty to talk about heritage. The aim was to present the actions carried out on cathedrals…
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De Bentvueghels
Connaissez-vous Orlando, Bockbaert, Vrijman, Heremyt, Inamorato, Ratel ou Orizzonte ? Pour le dernier, vous pensez peut-être à Jan Frans van Bloemen et vous vous rapprochez. Car ce peintre fut…
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Expertise at risk
For some time now, paintings by great names of the French 19th century have been appearing on the art market whose attribution, though asserted without nuance, is at best uncertain. All it takes…
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In Bordeaux, the mayor wants a vote for the restoration of the City Hall
The sterile and absurd controversy over the restoration of Notre-Dame is starting again, on a smaller scale and this time in Bordeaux, for the door of the town hall (Palais Rohan)! The city’s…
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Will Omai be split between London and Los Angeles?
Omai was a traveller, coming to England from Polynesia at the age of 22 in 1774, and remaining in London until 1776, frequenting British high society. The paintings depicting him are obviously…
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Corsica claims the Madonna of Brando
The Madonna of Brando, named after the Corsican town where it was kept until 1839, was finally not sold at auction this afternoon: the French Ministry of Culture, at the request of the commune…
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A fundraising for Orléans
This is a very beautiful painting, in which we see the young Bacchus, leaning on a parapet, his head on his hand, staring at the spectator with malice. There is none of Caravaggio’s ambiguity…
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Living together enters the CMN
"She has a solar and federating energy that raises" said the Minister of Culture, without laughing, quoted by Le Figaro, which revealed the news of Marie Lavandier’s nomination as president of the…