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NEW BOOKS :
La collection disparue de Pauline Baer de Perignon
“Tout a commencé avec une liste de tableaux griffonnée par un cousin que je connaissais à peine.” Voir des extraits vidéo sur Instagram
 
The Vanished Collection by Pauline Baer de Perignon 
 
The House of Fragile Things by James McAuley
Jewish Art Collectors and the Fall of France. A powerful history of Jewish art collectors in France, and how an embrace of art and beauty was met with hatred and destruction
 
EXHIBITIONS :

CHAMBORD, 1939-1945 : «SAUVER UN PEU DE LA BEAUTÉ DU MONDE»

Grâce à de précieux documents d’archives complétés au fil des années, des clichés issus de fonds photographiques français et allemands, deux courts documentaires et une scénographie immersive, ces nouveaux espaces mettent en lumière la question de l’art dans la politique nazie… read more
 

The recovered masterpieces in the Palace of Versailles, February 5 – June 5, 2022

Multiple document archives, including a previously unpublished photograph album, provided the keys to what happened to these two sculptures under German occupation. Returned after the war, the sculptures were placed in the garden of Hotel Ephrussi de Rothschild, in Paris…. read more
 

Marcel Proust. On his mother’s side  Museum of Jewish Art and History, Paris, April 14 – Aug 28, 2022

The “Marcel Proust. On his mother’s side” exhibition is the first in France to focus on the writer through the prism of his Jewishness.