Orsay acquires a pastel by Mela Muter

17/10/24 - Acquisition - Paris, Musée d’Orsay - She was recently one of the artists of the Paris of the Roaring Twenties honoured by the Musée du Luxembourg in its exhibition Pionnières, and the Jewish artists of the École de Paris presented by the Musée d’Art et d’Histoire du Judaïsme (see article). Marie-Melania Klingsland, known as Mela Muter, has now entered the collections of the Musée d’Orsay. Until now, the only link with this Polish artist, who became a naturalised French citizen in 1927, was a portrait by the painter René-Xavier Prinet. It now includes one of her pastels donated by the Cercle de femmes mécènes de la Société des Amis des musées d’Orsay et de l’Orangerie. Thanks to the support of Mr Marek Roefler, it was purchased from the Agnews gallery in Brussels, which…