Mardi 21 août 2018
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
This is the sort of pre-emption we like to hear about. The auction was a sale of old masters and 19th century works which took place today at Christie's Paris and the acquirer was the Musée de Beaux-Arts of Rouen. We were indeed hoping it would (...)
Since 1984 and the memorable exhibition highlighting 17th century painting in Rouen, the Musée des Beaux-Arts in this city had strangely enough not staged any other retrospectives of old master painting. This has now been remedied with the (...)
The next Salon du Dessin will take place from 30 March to 4 April 2011 and will be celebrating its twentieth anniversary. Last year, there was a stand displaying some of Alain Delon’s collection, this time a museum, the Musée des Beaux-Arts in (...)
True, the festival, “Normandie Impressioniste” is above all a marketing ploy, a communications operation promoted by Laurent Fabius under the sponsorship of Pierre Bergé and Jérôme Clément. The exhibitions organized for the occasion were cause for (...)
The BNP-Paribas bank has a very active policy in helping museums (French and abroad) finance the restoration of works in their collections. The restoration which has just been completed at the museum in Rouen is no doubt one of the most (...)
With American culture ever more present in Europe, for better or worse, it is strange that XIXth C. painting and sculpture in the United States have been so overlooked. Still, it is often the case in their own country as well where Western (...)
