This Dutch museum had not acquired a Van Gogh work in the last five years but last 7 February, it finally purchased a gouache watercolor entitled The Silver Willow at Christie's London for £1,273,250 (including charges). Executed on 27 July 1882 (...)
Endowed, as usual, with very beautiful sheets many of which in fact have not been viewed (at least in our case) often, the Salon du Dessin 2012 for once reflects a drawback : the number of galleries and drawings from the second half of the 20th (...)
Oliver Meslay left the Louvre almost two years ago to take over as curator at the Dallas Museum of Art, in charge of European and American art. Several works have been acquired since he arrived. The following are the most important (...)
The very important donation which the Musée d’Orsay has just received as a promised gift, no less than 141 works, 114 by Pierre Bonnard and 27 by Edouard Vuillard, remains shrouded in mystery as the donor wishes to be anonymous. We will of course (...)