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Last update on 2/11/2016
Last update on 2/11/2016
The latest news in the History of Western Art from the Middle Ages to the 1930's
An oncologist, Philippe Denis assembled an extensive collection of paintings by Eugène Carrière which he wished to donate to a museum. Thanks to the counsel of Etienne Bréton and Corinne Hershkovitch (a lawyer who recently helped in recovering a (...)
The Museum in Douai was destroyed in 1944 along with part of the holdings (many sculptures, ceramics, the ethnographic collection…). Before then, it had already undergone extensive looting in 1918 due to its location in the occupied war zone. (...)
