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"The museum has been very generous!""The museum has been very generous!" It is not uncommon to hear this phrase from exhibition curators to point out that this or that important work has been loaned, or that many of the objects on…
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"The Holy Trinity" in dangerThe Moscow Patriarchate recently announced that, "in response to numerous requests from Orthodox believers", President Vladimir V. Putin has decided to return to the Church the famous icon of the…
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Interview with Roberta Olson and Alexander Johnson about their donation to YaleRoberta Olson and Alexander Johnson have made a very significant gift of a collection of Italian Ottocento drawings to the Yale University Art Gallery. We discuss this collection in an article…
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The Martinez Report: the end of the inalienability of French museum collections?It is necessary to read the report entitled «Patrimoine partagé : universalité, restitutions et circulation des œuvres d’art» written by the honorary president-director of the Louvre, Jean-Luc…
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The Fitzwilliam Museum is looking for its "Empowering Culture Program Manager"This is a very curious position that the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge has just opened, and it released the job description a few days ago. The job description, which consists of running a…
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Benin bronzes from German museums returned to the private sectorOnly the naive (to put it mildly) will be surprised. It was bound to happen, and it is happening even sooner than we thought: a massive restitution operation has turned into a farce, and works…
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Italy taxes photographs even for researchersLa révolte gronde dans le milieu de l’histoire de l’art en Italie, et avec d’excellentes raisons. Le nouveau ministre de la Culture (Ministro dei Beni Culturali), Gennaro Sangiuliano, arrivé au…
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Jean-Pierre Samoyault’s reaction to the purchase of Winterhalter’s copyIn the email received from Marie-Christine Labourdette justifying the preemption by the Château de Fontainebleau of a copy of Franz Xaver Winterhalter’s painting: The Empress Eugenie Surrounded by…
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An incomprehensible preemption of the Château de FontainebleauFontainebleau has been spared the fashion for forgeries until now, but it has now taken a dive. The château today preempted a recent copy, dating from 1968, of Franz-Xaver Winterhalter’s painting…
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The Goya Museum reopens after a three-year construction periodThe work on the Goya Museum began in 2020 just after the first containment and took only three years. Three years is a remarkable timeframe for restoring a building and completely redoing a…
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Expertise at riskFor some time now, paintings by great names of the French 19th century have been appearing on the art market whose attribution, though asserted without nuance, is at best uncertain. All it takes…
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Will Omai be split between London and Los Angeles?Omai was a traveller, coming to England from Polynesia at the age of 22 in 1774, and remaining in London until 1776, frequenting British high society. The paintings depicting him are obviously…
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From Pisano to Rembrandt...It is sometimes difficult to write an article about the entry into the collections of a work that we have already spoken about extensively here and that is finally acquired through a fundraising.…
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Renovation of the Musée Lambinet in VersaillesCrushed by the château, which attracts the vast majority of tourists visiting Versailles, the Musée Lambinet, a municipal museum, is having trouble making itself known, and that is a great pity,…
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VAT on imported works of art: French suicideThe import tax can be understood as soon as it regulates the imports of goods that a country (or a set of countries governed by a common market) uses, from other countries, and that weigh on its…
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Exhibition, restoration, lay out, acquisition... News from the Girodet MuseumAfter the dramatic floods of 2016, the Musée Girodet had reopened, but the collections were still being restored, so not everything could be displayed yet. The situation continues to improve and…
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L’invité de La Tribune de l’Art n° 7 - 17/2/23 : Jérôme TomaselliJérôme Tomaselli is a passionate and fascinating collector, an art bulimic who has assembled an impressive collection of paintings and drawings from Lyon (but not only) from all periods and who has…
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The Cité du Vitrail in Troyes: a disappointment equal to the expectationsWe had been waiting for this for a long time, and an excellent exhibition we had been able to visit during the prefiguration phase gave us hope that the project would finally allow the creation…
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Trésors nationaux : le raisonnement mesquin de l’ÉtatLe don par LVMH du canotier de Gustave Caillebotte au Musée d’Orsay est un très beau geste qui mérite d’être salué en dépit de la chasse aux riches que certains aimeraient mener. La France est…
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Interview de Xavier Salomon, à propos des dessins de la FrickXavier Salomon est le directeur adjoint et conservateur en chef de la Frick Collection. À l’occasion de l’exposition du don Eveillard, nous l’avons interrogé sur la politique de ce musée en matière de…
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Non-acquisition : l’album des Fables de La Fontaine par OudryLors de la vente Christie’s de la collection Safra, l’un des lots phare était incontestablement l’album de dessins de Jean-Baptiste Oudry pour l’illustration des Fables de La Fontaine. Les deux…
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Versailles dans une forme olympiqueC’est une nouvelle fois La Lettre A qui révèle le pot aux roses un peu avant qu’il ne soit mis en œuvre : après le décret Pégard, voilà maintenant l’amendement Pégard. Une histoire tellement rocambolesque…
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Madonna et Langlois, une passion françaiseNous avions dit que nous n’en parlerions pas, et c’est déjà la deuxième fois que nous l’évoquons : il s’agit bien sûr de l’ « affaire » Madonna, du désormais fameux tableau de Jérôme Martin Langlois qu’elle…
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Du choix des sujetsIl arrive parfois que des informations qui semblent relever de notre champ et que l’on trouve dans certains journaux ne soient pas traitées, en tout cas pas immédiatement, par La Tribune de l’Art,…
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Versailles et le fait du princeL’information a été révélée par la lettre A le 21 décembre : déjà maintenue à la présidence de Versailles sans aucune justification légale, Catherine Pégard pourrait être renouvelée une fois de plus à ce…
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Après la torchère de Mme Récamier, le Silence doit entrer au LouvreLe Louvre a préempté, le 4 décembre dernier chez Osenat Fontainebleau, la torchère faisant partie du mobilier de Madame Récamier (ill. 1) dont nous avions parlé dans une brève annonçant cette vente,…
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Destruction d’armes patrimoniales : nos craintes se confirmentPour notre article sur l’opération d’abandon des armes menées par le ministère de l’Intérieur, celui-ci n’avait pas pu nous répondre car nous l’avions interrogé un week end. Nous souhaitions en effet…