Do not take the elevator: there is a masterpiece on the stairs. Nobody knew this drawing, a model of the fresco of the grand staircase of the Palais de Chaillot, La Musique. Bénédicte Gady, curator at the Museum of Decorative Arts, wanted to make it the figurehead of her exhibition. This monumental composition, triumph of Apollo playing the lyre in the stars, had been loaned in 1941 by its author, Jean Souverbie, pupil of Maurice Denis who had looked at Picasso - at the time when he was looking at Ingres. He had never asked for it, it was rolled up in a box. The heirs of the artist have just offered it to the museum in the rue de Rivoli. The restoration of this paper monument, which measures more than two meters, was carried out after a collection project combining the National Heritage Institute and the Louvre School and the rescue funded by patrons.
Masterpieces out of the boxes
The "MAD", as we say now, has the craziest collection of drawings, all styles, all
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