Didier Rykner

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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 new watercolour by Eugène Lami for the Musée Condé

    On 22 March this year, the Château de Chantilly, which is now very active in terms of acquisitions because it knows how to find sponsors to replace the budgets it lacks, preempted a watercolour by…

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  • A painting by Sophie Fremier bought by the Getty

    The painting is unsigned, and it is easy to trace it on the internet before it was bought by the Robilant+Voena gallery, from which the Getty Museum acquired it. Initially on the art market as…

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  • Notre-Dame: a very intrusive choir organ

    Notre-Dame should not be a playground for the French President of the Republic or the Archbishop of Paris. No doubt they think they have some legitimacy in the decisions they take, but they have…

  • Six paintings donated subject to usufruct in Amiens

    We recently reported on the donation of an Antoine Vestier painting to the Musée de Picardie by a couple of collectors. These collectors are particaularly generous, having recently donated six new…

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  • The "Semaine du Dessin" in Paris galleries (5)

    This is the fifth and final article in a long marathon that has taken us to all the galleries in Paris (or at least we hope we haven’t missed any) that are holding exhibitions to mark the Semaine…

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