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A Brancusi exhibition thanks to future renovations at the Centre PompidouSecondary school students should be revising for their philosophy exams at the Centre Pompidou, where the exhibition devoted to Constantin Brancusi will give them the opportunity to tackle a…
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National Gallery of Art acquires a painting by Elizabeth Okie PaxtonRather than depicting a female nude languidly reclining on a bed, Elizabeth Okie Paxton chose not to show it, but to evoke its presence in a cleverly organised bedroom. So she paints a genre…
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The new directors of the museums of Lille and StrasbourgNew curators have arrived at the helm of the museums of Lille and Strasbourg in recent months. The Palais des Beaux-Arts and the Musée de l’Hospice Comtesse in Lille have been headed by Juliette…
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Fundraising for the Musée des Impressionnismes de GivernyThe first Impressionist exhibition opened in Paris in 1874. Several museums are celebrating this 150th anniversary, including the one in Giverny, which has the audacity to tackle a relatively…
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A tapestry by Gerhard Munthe acquired by OrsayPurchased from the Oscar Graf gallery, a large tapestry by the Norwegian Gerhard Munthe joins the collections of the Musée d’Orsay, which is continuing its active policy of acquiring Scandinavian…
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Hélène Duret to succeed Bruno GaudichonOne of France’s most endearing and unique museums is about to undergo a change of leadership with the announced departure of Bruno Gaudichon for a well-deserved retirement: as revealed by La Voix…
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A Manfredi for the GettyIt’s a happy company, at least at first sight. A group of men are drinking wine around an improvised table that looks like an ancient Roman altar, while listening to one of them play the lute.…
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Leuven acquires a painting by Michaelina WautierShe was a 17th-century painter whose works were often attributed to her brother, Charles Wautier, or to other male artists such as Jacob van Oost the Elder. However, Michaelina Wautier gained…
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A new drawing by Émile Schuffenecker for Pont-AvenIt was one of a number of museum acquisitions that punctuated the second part of the sale of the Talabardon & Gautier gallery collection organised by Ader on 23 March, a session that was…
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Acquisitions and fundraising for the Bibliothèque nationale de FranceThe Notre-Dame missal, sold by Christie’s on 5 July, has finally been preempted by the Bibliothèque nationale de France for 56,700 euros (including costs). We can only be delighted to see this…
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Two paintings by Bouguereau restored at Saint-Vincent-de-PaulThis is about the only cause for satisfaction in Paris, but it is real: the restoration of the churches is progressing and we are even late in describing all the operations that have already been…
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A new Samuel van Hoogstraten for DordrechtPerspectiefstuk: it is difficult to translate into English the Dutch word for this splendid perspective view painted by Samuel van Hoogstraten, which we had already noticed last year when the…
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A mythological portrait by Jean Nocret for VersaillesThe painting was due to be auctioned by Koller in Zurich on 22 September 2022 but was bought in. It was finally purchased by private treaty earlier this year by the Château de Versailles. It is a…
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A painting by Fleury Richard acquired by BordeauxI was even more displeased than compassionate to see him in Ferrara in such a pitiful state, outliving himself, unaware of both himself and his works, which, without his knowledge, and…
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Two new copper paintings for the GettyTwo new copper paintings have joined the Getty Museum since the recent entry into its collections of Lavinia Fontana’s The Marriage at Cana. The first is a Portrait of a Young Man With a Ruff by…
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A Notre Dame missal for sale at Christie’sFour years after the fire at Notre-Dame de Paris, the Musée de l’Œuvre is kind of the Holy Grail. And yet this project represented the only real added value for the heritage of the redevelopment of…
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London’s July salesUnlike last December’s particularly poor sales, the London auctions at the beginning of July were of a very high standard, with a number of major works that amply justified the trip. The most…
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The Petit Palais exhibits its latest purchasesSince nature abhors a vacuum, it seemed a shame to close off part of the lower level of the Paris museum between temporary exhibitions, even if the two rotundas framing the gallery where the…
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A new painting by Guy François for the Musée CrozatierA new painting by Guy François has joined the collections of the Musée Crozatier. It fetched €39,360 (including fees) at the Tajan sale on 21 June, thanks to the support of the Fonds régional pour…
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Two recent acquisitions by the Fondation CustodiaGer Luijten, the director of the Fondation Custodia, who died suddenly at the end of last year, was such a bulimic of acquisitions that it was difficult for us to keep track of them. He bought…
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Several successful fundraisingsWhen we talk about fundraising, whether from the individuals or just for companies, we often talk in detail about the work in question, which makes it more difficult to write a new article to…
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A drawing by André Lebrun for the LouvreWe noticed the drawing in an article dedicated to gallery exhibitions last spring. This was also the case for the Louvre’s Department of Graphic Arts, which bought this large sheet by André Lebrun…
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A third Millais for OrsayAcquired from the London gallery Bagshawe Fine Art, a third portrait by John Everett Millais has joined the Musée d’Orsay collections. A welcome addition to the British art collection, which until…
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An archangel by Vivarini lands in ToursSince the beginning of May, a very beautiful archangel has appeared among the Tours museum’s collection of Italian paintings, disrupting the hanging to the point of replacing the two famous panels…
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The Louvre preempts the sculpture by AnguierIt would have been appalling if this admirable terracotta had not found its way into French public collections. Fortunately, François Anguier’s model for the funerary monument of Jacques de Souvré…
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Alain Delon disperses his last treasures"Millet is my passion, my god in drawing" declared Alain Delon to our colleague Harry Bellet in an interview back in 2007. So it comes as no surprise to see four works by the artist in the…
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A first Renoir for the Ulster MuseumThis is an exceptional acquisition, the first Renoir for the Ulster Museum, The Lane in the Wood is also the first French Impressionist painting to enter a public collection in Northern Ireland.…