Alexandre Lafore
Articles
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The Salon du dessin returns in spring
It was not without emotion that we rediscovered the most beautiful sheet from the previous edition of the Salon du Dessin: offered in May 2022 by the Dutch dealer Onno van Seggelen, it was…
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A masterpiece by Evaristo Baschenis joins the Accademia Carrara
It is an unforgettable painting that has finally reached the Bergamo collections, while its author was triumphing in Paris, where the Canesso Gallery dedicated a wonderful retrospective to him:…
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A post-Palissean cot for the Louvre Museum
The sale organized by Coutau-Bégarie & Associés at the Hôtel Drouot on February 23 was not only scrutinized by the Crozatier Museum, which took away an important Auvergne Mirgin and Child: a few…
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A Roman terracotta for the Getty Museum
It was one of the most seductive sculptures presented in June at the last edition of the Maastricht Fair (see article): the superb terracotta Saint Jerome proposed on the stand of the Lullo…
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The Dallas Museum of Art buys a Luca Giordano
Sitting in the center of Galerie Colnaghi’s beautiful stand at the last edition of the Maastricht fair, this grandiose Triumph of Galatea by Luca Giordano already seemed destined to be snapped up…
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A Virgin and Child for the Crozatier Museum
Strategically located in the heart of the Auvergne, the Crozatier Museum in Le Puy-en-Velay, however, remains poor in medieval sculpture, despite the region’s wealth in this area. As Marie-Blanche…
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The National Gallery of London buys its first Pechstein
When a major museum buys a first painting by a great artist that has been missing from its collections until now, it can’t go wrong: the National Gallery has thus set its sights on the beautiful…
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Le Beau Siècle
It is with a cannon shot that this fascinating exhibition begins, undoubtedly the richest of the year in the field of ancient art since it is an almost exhaustive panorama of a century of…
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A bust by Camille Claudel for Chicago
The effigy is fascinating, transfigured by the use of a very original polychrome patina: for the great American museum, which was eagerly seeking a sculpture by Camille Claudel, this is both an…
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Pierre Stépanoff appointed Director of the Musée de Picardie
The recent departure of Laure Dalon - who moved to Toulouse to head the Musée des Augustins in the autumn - left a vacancy at Amiens, where she worked between 2009 and 2012 before taking over as…