In museums, it is the place that stirs up all fantasies: the reserve of works of art.
There are the neglected, the forgotten, the "a little less well", the old-fashioned, the supernumerary among whom one can easily imagine discovering a masterpiece.
Send a writer and a painter there, they'll find you a dime a dozen.
The Musée d'Orsay experienced it, which commissioned the novelist Maylis de Kerangal and the artist Jean-Philippe Delhomme for a little trip to its reserves, the second basement at the end of a bend of corridors and d 'stairs, neon lighting and industrial flooring.
A secret place, so close and yet so far from the opulent and subdued rooms where visitors throng.
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The first entered with her notebook, the second with her drawing pad, and the result, delicate and magical, is displayed on the walls of the bridge on the fourth floor of the museum and in a small book.
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