Didier Rykner

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  • The Salon du dessin, 2025

    Under a beautiful spring sun, the Salon du Dessin opened its doors on Tuesday with a preview as popular as ever, the usual squad of international amateurs, collectors and curators never missing this…

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  • The degrowth of museums... and collections?

    The number seemed incredible: in 2022, "more than 200,000 new items" would have entered French public collections. This figure was quoted by Christelle Creff, director of the French museums…

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  • Overbeck’s The Annonciation preempted by the Louvre

    L’artiste est pratiquement absent des ventes publiques. Le seul tableau par lui (les autres répertoriés sur Artprice cédés pour quelques milliers d’euros ne sont évidemment pas de sa main) était…

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  • Three sales at the Hôtel Drouot

    While the Salon du Dessin is in full swing - we will come back to this shortly - and many galleries are organising exhibitions and important auctions are taking place (which have already given rise…

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  • Lionel Sauvage elected president of the Arts Decoratifs

    It is the ideal configuration, the one that all museums want, whereas so many of them are run by people who have no sense of public service. The three leaders in charge of the Musée des Arts…

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  • Exhibitions in Parisian galleries (1)

    Drawing Week, the highlight of which is the eponymous Salon that opens next Wednesday, traditionally begins a little earlier in the galleries (sometimes even with paintings). We will visit these in…

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  • The project for a museum for Notre-Dame in limbo

    On 8 December 2023, during a visit to Notre-Dame, the President of the Republic announced a bad decision: the replacement of the stained glass windows, and a good one: the creation of a Musée de…

  • To our subscribers (and those who wish to subscribe)

    Since January 2021, the rates of La Tribune de l’Art (€80 per year and €8 per month) have not changed. Since then, inflation has increased by 15%. A number of articles on the site relating to our…

  • A painting by Frère Luc purchased by Amiens

    Claude François, dit Frère Luc, n’est certes pas le plus grand peintre français du XVIIe siècle, mais ses œuvres sont souvent de très grande qualité. Les découvertes le concernant sont nombreuses et…

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