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Jean Lurçat. Earth, Fire, Water, AirFamiliar with the Lot region, where he settled after the Second World War, and a privileged resident of the Sant Vicens pottery in Perpignan from 1951 onwards, Jean Lurçat is one of the artists…
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"Cathars". Toulouse in the CrusadeHow do you create a good history exhibition? The recipe may seem simple, but first you need a good subject, if possible one that will appeal to a broad public, perhaps with a touch of polemic,…
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Liners 1913-1942. A transatlantic aestheticThe exhibition at the Musée des Beaux-Arts de Nantes is remarkably well staged, with superb works of art to discover. It is therefore well worth a visit, but it should be pointed out that those…
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A Devambez exhibition at Nicolas SchwedThere are certain artists who La Tribune de l’Art comes back to often, so often are they in the spotlight. André Devambez is one of them, and we make a point of mentioning him whenever we can,…
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Louise d’Orléans, first Queen of the Belgians. A Romantic DestinyAmong the many children of Louis-Philippe and Marie-Amélie, three stand out: Ferdinand, the eldest, who represented the hopes of the dynasty but died at an early age in a carriage accident. Then…
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Henri Martin - Henri Le Sidaner, two fraternal talentsWith admirable constancy, the Palais Lumière in Evian is working hard to (re)promote and above all exhibit artists considered to be out of fashion, from Jacques-Emile Blanche in the summer of 2015…
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Figures of the Fool. From the Middle Ages to the RomanticsThis old man on all fours, ridden and whipped by a woman, is Aristotle, who has fallen under the yoke of the troubling Phyllis. The philosopher, tutor to Alexander the Great, saw his pupil…
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Geoffroy Dumonstier, an extravagant RenaissanceDon’t look for Geoffroy Dumonstier at the Musée des Beaux-Arts in Rouen, which is easier to reach by train from Paris than the enigmatic "Pôle Culturel Grammont" housing the Archives de la Seine…
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Raphaël ExperienceWe are often critical of exhibitions that are overrun by multimedia, which frequently deters us from looking at the works without providing any really useful information. Despite its ridiculous…
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Greuze. Childhood and familyAfter Hubert Robert, Fragonard and Anne Vallayer-Coster, it is now Jean-Baptiste Greuze’s turn to benefit from a small-scale retrospective worthy of a museum, thanks to the Galerie Coatalem.…
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1600-2000. A collection ?Some collections are made with very little money. But knowledge and taste can sometimes make up for this lack, and that’s what we can see in this exhibition at the Musée des Beaux-Arts in Lyon. It…
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Anachronism in museumsVibrators and dildos line up next to a famous painting: The Bolt. This masterpiece by Fragonard appears at the corner of a picture rail in the new exhibition that the Musée des Arts décoratifs is…
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Masterpieces from the Galleria Borghese"The only way to get rid of a temptation is to give in to it". Cardinal Scipio Borghese understood this long before Oscar Wilde did. So when he liked a painting, he simply took it. He longed for…
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Marvellous treasure of Oignies: 13th-century fragmentsFor lovers of medieval silverware and good stories, a visit to the Musée d’Histoire in Namur, which houses the Treasure of Oignies, is almost a pilgrimage. The treasure is housed in a room…
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Baroque treasures of Cavaillon’s Notre-Dame-et-Saint-Véran cathedralSeveral satellite events and venues surround the exhibition Jean Daret. Painter to the King in Provence presented this summer at the Musée Granet. Such is the case with the small but very well…
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Stage Jewels of the Comédie-FrançaiseAll imitations! L’École des Arts Joailliers inaugurated its new Parisian address with a rich collection of stage jewellery from the Comédie-Française, despite long months of delay and a veil of…
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The King’s horsesYou had to "be there", you had to have your name on the guest list to show that you were in the king’s favour. Louis XIV invited only his friends to Marly, at least at first. Later, invitations to…
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A publication and an exhibition of Jean Daret’s drawingsIn our review of the Jean Daret retrospective, which closes on 29 September, we reported that the Musée Granet had been able to preempt nine drawings from a sale held in Béziers on 19 March 2024.…
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André Charles BoulleAs is customary at the Château de Chantilly, it all started with a masterpiece that owes nothing to the Duc d’Aumale, since it was only in 2012 (!) that the Duc de Bourbon’s desk was able to…
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Women among the Nabis. From thread to needleLike a shadow play, silhouettes appear, mysterious and familiar at the same time. Marthe Meurier, Maria (or Marthe) Boursin, France Rousseau, Laure Bonnamour, Marie Michaud... Their maiden name…
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News from the Château de Compiègne (1): the story of Don Quixote by CoypelThe Château de Compiègne is continuing its policy of presenting works that have been removed from its reserves and have not been visible for a long time, thanks to fairly long temporary exhibitions…
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Federico Barocci Urbino. L’emozione della pittura modernaThe Barocci retrospective currently taking place in Urbino, the artist’s birthplace where he spent most of his career, is curiously the first to be held there, but not the first to be devoted to…
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Oudry/Oudrymania. Fables, hunts, fightsKnown more for its stables - and its antics - than its kennels, Chantilly was also a great hunting estate, and its Musée Condé was duty-bound to welcome Jean-Baptiste Oudry, who spent most of his…
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Jean Daret. Painter to the King in ProvenceMore than forty years ago, in 1978, the Musée des Beaux-Arts de Marseille organised an exhibition devoted to 17th-century painting in Provence. Three artists stood out from the crowd: Reynaud…
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MiróMatisse. Beyond imagesEach of them gave an unexpected answer: when Louis Aragon asked Henri Matisse about contemporary artists and which one, apart from Picasso, was a "true painter", the master pronounced Bonnard’s…
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Berthe Morisot in Nice. Impressionist stopovers"Nothing keeps me here. Society here is atrocious, my hotel is full of women without husbands who do not redeem the strangeness of their situation by their elegance". And what about all those…
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Northern starsMany tourists from the Netherlands enjoy the tranquillity of the banks of the Loire during the summer, and this exhibition in Orléans, with its trilingual labels, is sure to come as a pleasant…
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