In three books and three museums * (Beaubourg, Orsay and the Louvre), full of stories and anecdotes, the writer Vincent Brocvielle recounts "the fabulous fate of masterpieces".
He takes a walk among icons, fruits of plastic revolutions, passions, scandals, controversies, rejections and then rediscoveries.
Patrons, artist friends, gallery owners, famous critics… here too, influencers have played their roles.
Illustration in a few examples.
• AT THE POMPIDOU CENTER
"The Sleeping Muse", 1910, Brancusi
In 2017, one of six bronze copies of
The Sleeping Muse
, 1910, sold for £ 75.3m in New York.
According to legend, Constantin Brancusi, who came on foot from Romania, stayed only three months in Rodin's studio.
From 1909, he had Baroness Renée Frachon pose,
“a woman with a dazzling throat and very wet blue eyes”
.
He sculpts the small asymmetrical mouth, transforms the groove between the lips and the nose into a ridge which will divide on the forehead.
He thus slips from the stylization
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