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Orsay acquires its first Fernand Pelez
19/7/23 - Acquisition - Paris, Musée d’Orsay - Jean-Léon Gérôme’s tondo (see news item of 16/5/23) was not the only work to attract the attention of the Musée d’Orsay on the stand of Gallery 19C at the last Tefaf in Maastricht (see news item). The Musée d’Orsay also acquired Fernand Pelez’s large canvas Misery, which was exhibited at the 1886 Salon.
While many of the painter’s works are held at the Petit Palais, which devoted a retrospective to him in 2009-2010 (see article), none are in the Musée d’Orsay collections, apart from Grimaces and Misery: The Entertainers - the reduced version of the monumental Petit Palais canvas - from the Hays donation, recently donated with usufruct (see news items of 22/10/16 and 10/7/19).
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- Fernand Pelez (1848-1913)
Misery, c. 1886
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