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Marie and Félix Bracquemond on sale at ArtcurialFirst 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 OrsayTwo 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An unpublished drawing by Goltzius enters the Fondation CustodiaAlors que va ouvrir dans deux jours une exposition consacrée aux douze années d’acquisitions faites par le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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Two new copper paintings for the GettyTwo new copper paintings have joined the Getty Museum since the recent entry into its collections of Lavinia Fontana’s The Marriage at Cana. The first is a Portrait of a Young Man With a Ruff by…
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A Notre Dame missal for sale at Christie’sFour years after the fire at Notre-Dame de Paris, the Musée de l’Œuvre is kind of the Holy Grail. And yet this project represented the only real added value for the heritage of the redevelopment of…
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London’s July salesUnlike last December’s particularly poor sales, the London auctions at the beginning of July were of a very high standard, with a number of major works that amply justified the trip. The most…
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The Petit Palais exhibits its latest purchasesSince nature abhors a vacuum, it seemed a shame to close off part of the lower level of the Paris museum between temporary exhibitions, even if the two rotundas framing the gallery where the…
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A new painting by Guy François for the Musée CrozatierA new painting by Guy François has joined the collections of the Musée Crozatier. It fetched €39,360 (including fees) at the Tajan sale on 21 June, thanks to the support of the Fonds régional pour…
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Two recent acquisitions by the Fondation CustodiaGer Luijten, the director of the Fondation Custodia, who died suddenly at the end of last year, was such a bulimic of acquisitions that it was difficult for us to keep track of them. He bought…
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Several successful fundraisingsWhen we talk about fundraising, whether from the individuals or just for companies, we often talk in detail about the work in question, which makes it more difficult to write a new article to…
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A drawing by André Lebrun for the LouvreWe noticed the drawing in an article dedicated to gallery exhibitions last spring. This was also the case for the Louvre’s Department of Graphic Arts, which bought this large sheet by André Lebrun…
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A third Millais for OrsayAcquired from the London gallery Bagshawe Fine Art, a third portrait by John Everett Millais has joined the Musée d’Orsay collections. A welcome addition to the British art collection, which until…
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An archangel by Vivarini lands in ToursSince the beginning of May, a very beautiful archangel has appeared among the Tours museum’s collection of Italian paintings, disrupting the hanging to the point of replacing the two famous panels…
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The Louvre preempts the sculpture by AnguierIt would have been appalling if this admirable terracotta had not found its way into French public collections. Fortunately, François Anguier’s model for the funerary monument of Jacques de Souvré…
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Alain Delon disperses his last treasures"Millet is my passion, my god in drawing" declared Alain Delon to our colleague Harry Bellet in an interview back in 2007. So it comes as no surprise to see four works by the artist in the…
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A first Renoir for the Ulster MuseumThis is an exceptional acquisition, the first Renoir for the Ulster Museum, The Lane in the Wood is also the first French Impressionist painting to enter a public collection in Northern Ireland.…
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Several paintings put up for sale by TajanThe shadow of the great masters hangs over the Tajan sale on 21 June in Paris, which brings together several paintings whose attribution is not certain, but whose quality is undeniable. This is…
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The Vallayer-Coster acquired by the National Gallery of Art in WashingtonThe painting is superb, that’s for sure. It is painted by a woman, no less. This still life by Anne Vallayer-Coster was therefore the perfect choice for acquisition by the National Gallery of Art…
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A landscape by Patel preempted by the Musée du Grand SiècleThis was undoubtedly one of the finest pictures at Christie’s Paris sale on 15 June, but it was nevertheless sold for less than the low estimate. Such are the vagaries of auctions. Be that as it…
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A Medusa by Böcklin for the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of ArtWatching its victims from one fair to the next, from Frieze Masters to Tefaf, this striking effigy of Medusa waited until the last edition of the Maastricht fair to strike the emissaries of the…
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A first painting by Cézanne for the National Gallery of IrelandThe National Gallery of Ireland - which Caroline Campbell took over from Sean Rainbird last November - has acquired its first painting by Paul Cézanne. Life in the Fields was acquired from the…
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Paintings for sale at Christie’s in ParisSometimes painters choose to work without color, playing only with shades of black and white, or brown. Christie’s will be selling a large-format grisaille in Paris on June 15. It depicts the Last…
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A relief by Armand Point for the Musée des Arts décoratifsPeintre symboliste adepte de la Rose-Croix, Armand Point fut un créateur atypique dont on apprécie bien plus volontiers aujourd’hui les objets d’arts que les tableaux. Après avoir débuté une carrière…