Portrait master Irving Penn
Dinard (Ille-et-Vilaine). Irving Penn (1917-2009) was the first historical photographer to enter the Pinault Collection. Since the acquisition in 2007…
The Belle Epoque of Jean Sala
La Baule, Loire-Atlantique. A young red-haired woman from the Belle Époque poses smiling, a tennis racket under her arm. Under…
Rembrandt’s etchings up close
Fontevraud, Maine-et-Loire. Creating an etching is a laborious process. You must first coat a copper plate with varnish, then proceed…
Ron Mueck, dark and enigmatic
Paris. As Hervé Chandès, artistic director general of the Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain reminds us, this is not the…
Ingres, painter from Orléans
Chantilly (Oise). Louis-Philippe, who reigned over the French from 1830 to 1848, was an art lover and his fifth son,…
The Capodimonte completes the collections of the Louvre
Paris. The still life in the Grande Galerie du Louvre: it took a bit of Neapolitan madness for this minor…
The golden age, a myth that crosses time
Ornans, Doubs. Hesiod, the Greek peasant-poet of the late eighth century BCE who composed Works and Daysand Ovid, the Latin…
Martial Raysse between parody and pastiche
More precisely, it is with the Nouveaux Réalistes that Martial Raysse finds a place in the sun, even at the…
At the IMA, a disparate “Palestine” season
Paris. As Jack Lang, acting president of the Arab World Institute (IMA) reminds us, this season is “a presentation of…
The black work of Degas
Paris. While the canvases and pastels of Edgar Degas (1834-1917) caused a sensation at the “Manet-Degas” exhibition at the Musée…
Robert Guinan, the painter of the other Chicago
Lyons. Robert Guinan (1934-2016) took the splits in his artistic practice. On two counts. On the one hand, after having…
Castor And Pollux – Dioscuri
Castor and Pollux were also known as Dioscuri. In Greek and Roman mythology they were considered the twin sons of…