Adrien Enfedaque is a happy curator, despite the difficulties of the hour. He is undoubtedly the only museum director to have succeeded in "deconfining" a work and to have enriched his collections, without having to pay the price, on the day of the reopening to the public. A plaster cast by Augustin Fumadelles (1844-1924), a sculptor from Agen, representing a Gallic warrior, certainly captive but resistant - the very symbol of the French soul in times of crisis - has chosen his moment to reappear.
During the confinement period, the curator of the Agen Museum of Fine Arts did not stop working. He analyzed by enlarging the old photographs of his rooms, in particular those of the first floor where was, before the war, the gallery of sculpture. In this zenithal room, it ended up raining, and everything had to be sheltered. During the renovations of the 1940s, the official sculpture of the Third Republic no longer pleased anyone. The Germans had
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