Tag: France

Pierre-Auguste Renoir (France, 1841-1919) Bal du moulin de la Galette (Dance at Le moulin de la Galette) oil on canvas 131 × 175 cm. (52 × 69 in.) painted in 1876 Collection of Musée d'Orsay, Paris, France

Leonardo da Vinci (Italy, 1452–1519) Joconde (Mona Lisa) oil on poplar panel 77 x 53 cm. (30 x 21 in.) painted circa 1503-1519 Collection of Louvre Museum, Paris, France Mai Trung Thu's La Joconde (Mona Lisa) In Vietnamese art history, Mai Trung Thu discovering and visiting often the original Mona Lisa by Leonardo da Vinci ...

In this 15th-century ensemble commissioned by the Le Viste family of Lyon, each tapestry represents one of the five senses: smell, sight, hearing, touch and taste. La Dame à la licorne (The Lady and the Unicorn) tapestry 377 x 473 cm. Painted between 1484 and 1500 Each sense is portrayed through the recurrence of a ...

Yayoi Kusama sculpted on rue du Pont Neuf, between the headquarters of Louis Vuitton and the Samaritaine on the Champs Élysées in honour of Louis Vuitton's new dotted collaboration with the famous designer.

A massive sculpture in the likeness of Yayoi Kusama has been erected on rue du Pont Neuf, between the headquarters of Louis Vuitton and the Samaritaine. The monumental clone of the Japanese artist repainted the facade of the building with colored dots, after having tackled the emblematic LV store on the Champs Élysées. A free, ...

Where Kiki de Montparnasse spent her last years before passing in 1953. Alice Ernestine Prin (1901–1953), so-called Kiki de Montparnasse, the Queen of Montparnasse, a French model, chanteuse, actress, memoirist and painter during the Jazz Age. She flourished in and helped define the liberated culture of Paris in the so-called Années folles ("crazy years" in ...

Musée du Luxembourg Exposition: Léon Monet (1836-1917), the overlooked brother of Claude Monet  (1840-1926), Paris, 15 March 2023 - 15 July 2023. The Musée du Luxembourg is presenting an unprecedented exhibition on Léon Monet (1836-1917), the overlooked brother of Claude Monet (1840-1926). A colour chemist, Rouen-based industrialist and collector, Léon Monet played a key role ...

Christie's Invitation to the round table moderated by Journalist Georgina Adam at Christie's Paris, 9 Avenue Matignon, Paris, 26 January 2023 To mark the 25th anniversary of the Washington Principles — an international agreement that opened a new era of transparency with respect to art lost or stolen during the Nazi period between 1933 and ...

Round table moderated by Journalist Georgina Adam at Christie's Paris, 9 Avenue Matignon, Paris, 26 January 2023 Christie’s Restitution department will honour the 25th anniversary of the Washington Principles in 2023 with a global series of events and initiatives. In December 1998, the U.S. Department of State and the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum brought together ...

Henri Matisse (France, 1869-1954) in the room-workshop of the old Régina Hotel on the Cimiez hill in Nice, sitting in his bed following paralysis, drawing the figures of the Vence chapel on the walls with a charcoal attached to a pole; taken by Walter Carone (Italy/France, 1920–1982) in April 1950