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A great Le Barbier for StockholmA harmonious combination of large format and seductive composition, The Triumph of Flora painted around 1777 by Jean-Jacques François Le Barbier the Elder was bound to interest a museum, and it…
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A work by the Master of the Corsi Crucifix for FlorenceThis Christ on the Cross took pride of place on dealer Fabrizio Moretti’s stand at the 2022 Florence International Biennial of Antiquities. The Florentine gallery owner, based in London, Monaco…
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Preemption of the Musée du Grand Siècle at the Artcurial saleMusée de beaux-arts, le futur Musée du Grand Siècle a également pour objectif de faire comprendre aux visiteurs tous les aspects de la vie au XVIIe siècle. Le tableau qu’il vient de préempter chez…
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Ruth and Booz by Charles Gleyre preempted by the Musée FabreLe Ruth et Booz de Charles Gleyre qu’a préempté le Musée Fabre à la vente Artcurial du 22 novembre est à la fois un chef-d’œuvre de cet artiste dont une rétrospective avait été présentée à Lausanne en…
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A Cassatt for the Fondation BembergThis young girl portrayed by Mary Cassatt in 1879 is inevitably reminiscent of the famous portrait of Berthe Morisot with a bouquet of violets, Édouard Manet’s masterpiece of 1872. Finally, the…
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A new Muse by Philippe Quantin preempted by DijonSet in a spare architectural décor, surrounded by a variety of musical instruments and draped in an ample red drapery, the muse Euterpe plays a long flute, as indicated by the inscription on the…
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First Millet painting acquired by the Van Gogh MuseumWhile the Van Gogh Museum already featured a painting by Jean-François Millet in its permanent collection, this Girl Carrying Water was on loan from the neighboring Rijksmuseum, and only one…
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Helene Schjerfbeck enters the Metropolitan Museum and OrsayHitherto absent from American and French museum collections, the Finnish painter Helene Schjerfbeck has entered the Metropolitan Museum and the Musée d’Orsay at almost the same time. The New York…
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Marie-Madeleine classified as a National TreasureHere is a work of immediate appeal, whose rarity and historical importance for medieval sculpture have often been hailed by specialists: proposed at Azur Enchères in Cannes on June 14th,…
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Orsay acquires a work by Georges de FeureSiegfried Bing played a leading role in the revival of the decorative arts. In 1895, he opened his shop "L’Art nouveau" in Paris, which gave its name to the famous artistic movement that…
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