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FAB at the Grand Palais

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Paris, Grand Palais, from 22 to 27 November 2024.

The Biennale, after its marriage with Fine Arts Paris under the new name FAB, is back under the glass roof of the Grand Palais. As usual for this type of fair, we have selected a number of works in a necessarily partial and partial approach. You have until Wednesday 27 November to discover this new edition, but don’t forget to bring something warm...


1. Albrecht Dürer (1471-1528)
Jalousy or Hercules at the Crossroads, c. 1498
Burin - 32.2 x 22.4 cm
Galerie Paul Prouté
Photo: Galerie Paul Prouté
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Although we don’t deal often enough with prints, we can nonetheless mention a very fine proof of Dürer’s engraving Jalousy or Hercules at the Crossroads (ill. 1) presented by the Prouté gallery.


2. Pierre Puget (1620-1694)
The Head of Saint John the Baptist
Oil on canvas - 46.5 x 71 cm
Galerie de Bayser
Photo: Galerie de Bayser
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On the Galerie de Bayser stand, there are of course many drawings, as well as sculptures and paintings. Among the latter, the work that greets visitors at the entrance to the stand is a canvas by Pierre Puget (ill. 2), showing the head of Saint Jean-Baptiste decapitated on a plate, undoubtedly one of the masterpieces in this technique by an artist who is especially remarkable in three dimensions, and whose painted work is uneven.


3. Giovanni Baglione (1566-1643)
The Virgin and Child Jesus, c. 1605-1610
Oil on copper - 27.5 x 20.5 cm
Tarantino Gallery
Photo: Tarantino Gallery
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Galerie Tarantino is showing a delightful small copper by Giovanni Baglione depicting the Virgin and Child Jesus (ill. 3), a work from rather early in the career of an artist who later showed himself to be influenced by Caravaggio, and a Roman painting from the Seicento, by an Italianised Frenchman, Guillaume Courtois (ill. 4).


4. Guillaume Courtois, called il Borgognone (1628-1679)
Venus, Mars and Adonis
Oil on canvas -…

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