With silver gray picture rails, heavy curtains and thick aubergine carpeting, you won't enter a room at the Musée d'Orsay.
But in a living room.
That, partially reconstituted, of Henry Clay Frick, "king of coke" at the dawn of the 20th century and whose legacy - his mansion-museum - still seems today to taunt by its luxury and its very private refinement the gigantic and popular Met located directly across on 5th Avenue.
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Christophe Leribault, a researcher at the Musée d'Orsay
As the Frick Collection is currently closed due to renovations, it has moved some of its treasures to a building on Madison Avenue so local audiences can continue to enjoy them.
And, for two years, she made some others travel.
Not in the form of a lucrative "best of" tour, as is usually done, but more judiciously by offering sets adapted to foreign partner institutions.
Orsay is one of them, which since Tuesday has received seventeen of the eighteen Whistlers acquired by Frick…
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