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L’invité de La Tribune de l’Art n° 16 - 23/5/24 : Jean-Jacques Aillagon
Cette semaine, nous recevons un invité qu’il n’est pas nécessaire de présenter puisqu’il s’agit de Jean-Jacques Aillagon, ancien président du Centre Pompidou, ancien ministre de la Culture, ancien…
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Threats against the former La Rochefoucauld hospital become clearer
We’ve known it for a long time: there’s obviously nothing to expect - except the worst - from either the APHP (the administration responsible for managing the hospitals of Pari, presided over by…
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Rouen buys a drawing by Ingres
Elle a libéré Orléans, elle fut brûlée à Rouen. Les musées des Beaux-Arts de ces deux villes ont en commun de consacrer dans leur collections une section aux œuvres d’art en lien avec Jeanne d’Arc. C’est…
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Arts in France during the times of Charles VII (1422-1461)
Twenty years after the rich exhibition "Paris 1400. Arts under the times of Charles VI" organised at the Louvre in 2004, the Musée de Cluny has been able to take up the torch by offering as broad…
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A drawing by Toussaint Dubreuil for the BnF
Assis au premier plan et doté de tenailles, Vulcain joue le rôle de figure repoussoir, tandis qu’au fond, les Cyclopes s’affairent devant la forge (
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The Burlington Magazine - n° 1454 vol CLXVI - May 2024
Art in France Editorial Theft Articles Ludovic Jouvet, A medal of the Sun King by Claude I Ballin Yuriko Jackall, ‘The swing’ by Jean-Honoré Fragonard: new hypotheses Andrew M. Watson,…
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Revue de l’Art n°223/2024-1
Éditorial Barthélémy Jobert, Floraisons impressionnistes Notes et Documents Catherine Méneux, S’allier au temps d’une République conservatrice. La Société des Artistes Peintres, Sculpteurs,…
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Artibus et Historiae - An art anthologie - n°88, 2023
Artibus et historiae, sous-titrée an art anthology, est une revue d’histoire de l’art publiée en Pologne par l’IRSA (Istituto per le Ricerche di Storia dell’Arte) et contenant des articles écrits…
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Henry Cros (1840-1907). Sculptor and draughtsman
‘Henry Cros, sculptor and draughtsman’, as the exhibition is titled, but also a painter, glassmaker and ceramist, of whom Rodin wrote in the preface to the catalogue of his sale after his death in…
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A Brancusi exhibition thanks to future renovations at the Centre Pompidou
Secondary 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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La Barben: the Prefect supports Rocher Mistral and is overruled by the Council of State
How far will the public authorities go to defend the indefensible in the never-ending case of the Château de La Barben transformed into an amusement park under the name of Rocher Mistral? After…
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National Gallery of Art acquires a painting by Elizabeth Okie Paxton
Rather 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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L’invité de La Tribune de l’Art n° 15 - 16/5/24 : Maurizio Canesso
Cette semaine, à l’occasion des trente ans de l’ouverture de sa galerie et de l’exposition qu’il présente pour fêter cet anniversaire, nous recevons Maurizio Canesso, marchand de tableaux italien à…
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The ‘Géricault’ horses
An exhibition presented in a museum must be exemplary, and even more so when it shows many works from private collections. A ‘gallery’ is not a ‘private collection’, and while it is perfectly…
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The new directors of the museums of Lille and Strasbourg
New 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 Giverny
The 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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Nancy, just like Paris...
While the disappearance of Paris is becoming ever more apparent as the Olympic Games approach in the city managed (if we dare use that term) by Anne Hidalgo, the latter continues to set an…
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Frans Hals in Amsterdam
Those accustomed to the Dutch museum’s exhibitions will not be disappointed: this is first and foremost the absolute joy of painting, the dazzling freedom of the brushstrokes, the admirable…
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L’invité de La Tribune de l’Art n° 14 - 8/5/24 : Héléna et Guy Motais de Narbonne
Cette semaine, nous recevons, ou plutôt nous avons été reçu, car l’émission a été enregistrée chez eux, Héléna et Guy Motais de Narbonne dont la collection a déjà été présentée au Louvre et à Orléans et…
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Predictions. Artists face the future
La sibylle de Panzoust dévoilait à ses visiteurs d’abord leur avenir puis son postérieur. Panurge vint la trouver pour s’avoir s’il devait se marier. Après avoir ausculté des feuilles d’arbres «elle se…
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Théodore Rousseau (1812-1867). The voice of the forest
Théodore Rousseau (1812-1867). La voix de la forêt Paris, Petit Palais, Musée des Beaux-Arts de la Ville de Paris, from 5 March to 7 July 2024. Relegated to the rank of ‘tartouillades’, ‘bastard…
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A tapestry by Gerhard Munthe acquired by Orsay
Purchased 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 Gaudichon
One 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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L’invité de La Tribune de l’Art n° 13 - 1/5/24 : Pierre Stepanoff
Cette semaine, nous recevons Pierre Stepanoff, directeur des Musées d’Amiens, et notamment du Musée de Picardie. Il nous parle de sa jeune carrière de conservateur, de son poste de conservateur au…
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A Manfredi for the Getty
It’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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Great decors restored from Notre-Dame de Paris
The exhibition that the Louvre should have organised is finally being staged by the Mobilier national, and so much the better, as its spaces are perfectly suited to hanging large-format…
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Impossible to escape the Olympic Games
"There may be some who would like to do something else..." suggested Raymond Devos, a French comedian, in a falsely ingenuous tone in a sketch entitled "Faites l’amour, pas la guerre" ("Make love,…
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Claude Lorrain. Drawings and etchings
For specialists, this is no surprise, but for everyone else it’s a real revelation: thanks to the Duc d’Aumale, the Château de Chantilly conserves a collection of graphic works by Claude Lorrain of…
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Marie and Félix Bracquemond on sale at Artcurial
First and foremost, this is an exhibition not to be missed under any circumstances, even if it is unfortunately only open this Friday, Saturday and then Monday before the sale of the entire…
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Two new busts by Charles Cordier for Orsay
Two new busts by Charles Cordier have been added to the fine collection of works by this pioneer of polychrome sculpture under the Second Empire already held by the Musée d’Orsay, which initiated…
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An unpublished drawing by Goltzius enters the Fondation Custodia
Alors que va ouvrir dans deux jours une exposition consacrée aux douze années d’acquisitions faites par le regretté Ger Luijten, disparu il y a maintenant plus d’un an, celle-ci vient d’acquérir, en…
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A work by Rebecca Solomon for two English museums
It is a painting that has everything to please today’s museums, presented as ‘a complex reflection on gender, race, religion and education in mid-nineteenth-century London’. Painted in 1861 by a…
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L’invité de La Tribune de l’Art n° 12 - 24/4/24 : Olivia Voisin
Cette semaine, nous recevons Olivia Voisin, directrice des musées d’Orléans, et notamment du Musée des Beaux-Arts. Elle nous parle de ce musée (et des autres), de sa politique d’acquisition très…
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Noël Coypel, painter to the King
Following on from Versailles, the Noël Coypel retrospective is now on show at the Musée des Beaux-Arts in Rennes. But they are not the same exhibition, even though the two share a common catalogue.…
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A Mars by Giambologna crosses the Atlantic
Très admiré à Londres en juillet 2023 puis à Maastricht en mars 2024, le très beau Mars de Giambologna que proposait Stuart Lochhead ne pouvait qu’intéresser les grands musées nord-américains et c’est…
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Géricaults rediscovered in museums? Really?
The discovery or rediscovery of paintings attributed to great masters is a regular occurrence in art history. Attribution is not an exact science, and the identity of the authors of certain works…
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The French Ministry of Culture requests the removal of a non-compliant installation
If the request made by Culture Minister Rachida Dati to Société Foncière Lyonnaise (SFL) the day before yesterday, Thursday 18 April, is acted upon, it is a welcome one. This developer is in charge…
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Sylvain Amic appointed head of the Musée d’Orsay
Since the announcement of Christophe Leribault’s departure for Versailles last February, this was one of the most eagerly awaited appointments. Although a short list of candidates had been…
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Fragments of the rood screen at Notre-Dame finally revealed
Last July, we wrote an article about "the obstruction of INRAP", which did not want to give access to the fragments of sculptures from the rood screen of the cathedral discovered during the…
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Restorations at the Musée des Beaux-Arts in Rennes
The DJ (or disc-jockeys) of electro music - the Shindi collective - asked the Musée des Beaux-Arts in Rennes to shoot a video clip in the heart of the permanent exhibition. There was no danger to…
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A Self-portrait by Émile Bernard preempted by Pont-Aven
Émile Bernard’s Self-portrait was preempted by the Musée de Pont-Aven and fetched €50 400 at Christie’s sale in Paris on 10 April. It adds a first self-portrait to the group of around fifteen…
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Ouvrages reçus du 17 novembre 2023 au 18 avril 2024
Nous mettons en ligne régulièrement les ouvrages reçus. Il s’agit ici de signaler leur parution en ajoutant éventuellement un bref descriptif expliquant rapidement de quoi il s’agit (ou en publiant…
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Carpets from the Galerie d’Apollon and the Grande Galerie of the Louvre
At the beginning of the reign of Louis XIV, when the Palais du Louvre was destined to become the official residence of the new king - before being supplanted by Versailles - thirteen carpets were…
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The Musée de Vizille hangs one of its recent acquisitions
A large canvas by the painter Hippolyte Pierre Delanoy, The Desk of Citizen Carnot or The Table of Citizen Carnot, has just been hung in the Musée de la Révolution Française in Vizille. Passed…
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L’invité de La Tribune de l’Art n° 11 - 17/4/24 : Nicolas Schwed
Cette semaine, nous recevons Nicolas Schwed, marchand de dessins à Paris. Celui-ci, qui organise notamment régulièrement des expositions dans sa galerie parisienne dont nous rendons compte souvent…
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From Copenhagen to Paris
There is no end to the litany of historic monuments in France and elsewhere in Europe that have gone up in flames while work was underway to restore them. This time it’s Denmark’s turn to be hit by…
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A new Antigna pour Orléans
These are blessed times for collectors and museums who are not afraid to think outside the box. While some exceptional works are selling for prices that are no less exceptional, and while a few…
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The Louvre buys a drawing by Jacques Bellange
This is certainly one of the most beautiful sheets by Jacques Bellange to reappear on the market in recent years, and we mentioned it in article on the Christie’s sale on 20 March 2024. The Musée…
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A drawing by Laurent Guyot for the Mobilier national
This sheet by Laurent Guyot, which took pride of place at the centre of the Madrid gallery owner José de la Mano’s stand at the opening of the last Salon du Dessin, could not fail to interest the…
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A terracotta by Pierino da Vinci for Cleveland
In February, a complex and fascinating sculpture joined the rich collections of the Ohio Museum, which was able to acquire it from Stuart Lochhead thanks to funding from the Leonard C. Hanna Jr.…
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