A tapestry by Gerhard Munthe acquired by Orsay

4/5/24 - Acquisition - Paris, Musée d’Orsay - Purchased from the Oscar Graf gallery, a large tapestry by the Norwegian Gerhard Munthe (ill. 1) joins the collections of the Musée d’Orsay, which is continuing its active policy of acquiring Scandinavian art, regularly reviewed on our pages. It adds a new name to the corpus of Norwegian Art Nouveau already conserved and essentially represented by Lars Kinsarvik, whose second piece of furniture, a two-body cabinet, was snapped up at a public auction in Copenhagen at Bruun Rasmussen in November 2018. We had not mentioned it on our pages and so reproduce it here (ill. 4). It will certainly take its place alongside it in the new decorative arts rooms, whose reopening date, still on the median level on the Seine side, has not yet been set [1].…