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An unpublished drawing by Goltzius enters the Fondation CustodiaAlors que va ouvrir dans deux jours une exposition consacrée aux douze années d’acquisitions faites par le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 museumsIt 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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A Mars by Giambologna crosses the AtlanticTrès 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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Sylvain Amic appointed head of the Musée d’OrsaySince 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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Restorations at the Musée des Beaux-Arts in RennesThe 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-AvenÉmile 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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The Musée de Vizille hangs one of its recent acquisitionsA 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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A first 15th-century drawing for LeuvenThis is the very first drawing to join the fifteenth-century collection held by the Museum Leuven. Done by an artist in Rogier van der Weyden’s circle, this Swoon of the Virgin, executed in brown…
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The Sorolla Museum acquires a new paintingSorolla was not always the "painter of light" appreciated for his dazzling beach scenes). One example of this is the Head of Saint Anthony, which was preempted by the Spanish State and sold for…
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A new Chardin soon at the LouvreNever two without three? This formula rarely works for the beloved ’French national treasures’, who have all too often got into the habit of taking flight abroad, but both the Musée du Louvre and…
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A painting by Bonnefond donated to AmiensA new painting that belonged to Bruno Foucart’s collection has just made its way into a museum, the Picardie Museum in Amiens, this time donated by Vincent Foucart, another of his brothers, who is…
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A Vallayer-Coster exhibition at the Galerie CoatalemSi Anne Vallayer-Coster a fait l’objet d’une rétrospective en France, c’était à Marseille, en 2003. Mais Paris n’avait jamais eu la chance de voir réunies en un même lieu un grand nombre de ses tableaux.…
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Cimabue’s panel finally acquired for the LouvreHonour to the regional daily press: it was Oise Hebdo that had the luxury of announcing the arrival in the French collections of the now famous panel by Cimabue discovered during an inventory in…
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The Oberkampf Pool finally listed as a historic monumentFortunately, it’s not all bad news. We reported a year and a half ago on the threats hanging over the Molitor Pool, a fine example of Art Deco, a style that has been vandalised too often in recent…
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A pastel by Alexandre Hesse for LyonWhile the dozens of sheets assembled during the Salon du Dessin were eagerly flown to faraway lands, others were content with a more modest journey, and thus the splendid Head of an Oriental by…
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A masterpiece by Victor Hugo enters the LouvreIt is a majestic, mythical and major sheet - accumulation is possible here - that has recently joined the French collections after more than three years of suspense leading to fears that it would…
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The Prado buys a painting by Paolo de San LeocadioIn the foreground, John, Peter and James are dozing, while Christ is praying: "Father, if you are willing, remove this cup from me; nevertheless, not my will but yours be done". An angel appears…
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A new Monfreid preempted by MontpellierAs we have already mentioned on several occasions, since 2017 the Musée Fabre has been building up a collection of works by Georges Daniel de Monfreid, the latest addition to its collections…
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A masterpiece by Émile Bernard for the Musée d’OrsaySome collections appear to be inexhaustible, despite decades of varied sales: Christie’s was thus able to play it safe by announcing yet more Josefowitz sales this autumn, several years after the…
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Three recent Quimper acquisitions« Elles n’ont pas, en ce moment, de rivales à l’Exposition Universelle. Aucun spectacle n’est plus inattendu ni plus curieux, et nos yeux d’Occidentaux blasés sont hypnotisés par ce troublant…
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A Portuguese Renaissance painting for the LouvreA year ago, the Louvre organised a small but magnificent exhibition devoted to the Portuguese Renaissance. We explained that many works had been lost in the Lisbon earthquake of 1755, and that…
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Two drawings by Honthorst acquired by the British MuseumAll lovers of old master drawings will remember the exceptional set of twenty-seven sheets by Gerrit van Honthorst that were the subject of an exhibition at Nicolas Schwed almost nine years ago,…
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The Cleveland Museum buys a painting by ZoffanyIt’s a happy coincidence: when the Cleveland Museum’s English galleries were refurbished in 2018, the curators’ intention was to give visitors the feeling of entering an 18th-century flat. To…
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A Dandré-Bardon for MontpellierIt was a highly attractive image that made a long-awaited reappearance at Delon/Hoebanx & Associés at Hôtel Drouot on Thursday 12 October: this painting by Michel-François Dandré-Bardon,…
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A new Domenico Piola for the Palazzo SpinolaA new painting by Domenico Piola has been added to the collections of the Palazzo Spinola in Genoa, acquired by the Italian Ministry of Culture from the Galerie Canesso in Paris. Kept in private…
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Two exhibitions in Parisian galleriesThe Parisian art market is so rich that even outside the now ritualised events - the Salon du Dessin in April and Fine Arts Paris, now combined with the Biennale in November - many galleries…
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Patrimonial, a new magazineIn this age of the Internet - the importance of which we are not unaware! - it’s always pleasing to see the birth of a new ’paper’ magazine, and even more so when it’s in the field of heritage. It is…
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