A painting by Aimée Brune-Pagès for the Musée de Picardie

22/8/23 - Acquisition - Amiens, Musée de Picardie - Visitors to the Amiens institution, as well as readers of La Tribune de l’Art, know how proud this museum can be of its dense 19th-century collections, where the greatest names cohabit harmoniously with artists who are still largely unknown. The museum’s new director, Pierre Stépanoff (see the news item of 13/2/23), who arrived last May, is fortunately one of those curators who believe that the museum’s walls are never full enough, and it took him just one month to spot an attractive painting at public auction that would be a fitting…