They made headlines in their field. Back to these figures or phenomena of the year.
This name that smells of joy had been forgotten.
In the 19th century, Rosa Bonheur (1822-1899), a painter endowed with good academic technique, was the artist who sold the most throughout the world.
But his realistic art and his genre, the animal portrait, went out of fashion, killed by "isms" (Impressionism, Cubism and Surrealism) and abstraction.
Not long ago, his
Nivernais Plowing
was his only painting on permanent display at the Musée d'Orsay.
On the market, you could sometimes find his watercolors or his charcoals for less than 1000 euros.
In short, the most famous Frenchwoman of her time with Sarah Bernhardt only found favor with Anglo-Saxon collectors or the walls of town halls that her hymns to rural France had the questionable taste of adorning.
The one and only private museum with a public collection
The first cause of the current revival has unquestionably been the action of another woman of character.
In 2017, retired from the business world…
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