Discoveries are his specialty.
When he directed the Petit Palais, Christophe Léribault experienced success with artists such as the Swedish Zorn, the Neapolitan Gemito, the Russian Repine or the Finn Edelfelt currently, whom he had programmed before leaving the museum to take the head of Orsay in the fall of 2021. If everyone knows (more or less) the Manets, Monets, Renoirs and other Van Goghs of the Impressionist Museum, the new boss concocted a kind of egg hunt for us (it was the day before on the evening of the Easter weekend) hidden masterpieces.
Prominently, in fact, but even we came across sublime rooms where we had never set foot.
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