Thomas Schlesser teaches art history at Polytechnique and has directed the Hartung Bergman foundation in Antibes for ten years.
He is also one of the greatest specialists of Gustave Courbet.
Jean Clair is an academician, directed the Picasso Museum, and curator of international exhibitions, all of which had a great impact.
The man who has never stopped fighting the excesses of contemporary art has also written a number of invariably fascinating books.
Thomas Schlesser, for his part, published a first novel,
Les Yeux de Mona
(1), already translated in many countries even before its release in bookstores in France: a grandfather crazy about painting learns that his beloved granddaughter, aged 10 years old, risk of going blind.
He decides, so that she can discover beauty and be able to remember it in case the worst happens, to take her to the museum every Wednesday afternoon, and to show her a particular painting.
There will be 52 of them.
The principle is simple: the little girl observes…
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