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A 1954 version of René Magritte's The Empire of Light sold for $121 million at Christie's in New York, much more than expected. One of 27 renderings of the scene by the French surrealist, the ...
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Looted art: the battle for looted treasures
After the French parliament voted on Monday to return to Ivory Coast a "talking drum" that colonial troops took from the ...
After the French parliament voted on Monday to return to Ivory Coast a "talking drum" that colonial troops took from the ...
The Art Institute offered a foretaste of the collection through two exhibitions — one focused on Neoclassical paintings, the other on French Revolution-era drawings — in the fall.
French art from the 16th into the early 19th centuries, the finest in America, is coming to the Art Institute of Chicago as a gift from the Horvitzes. This is big news.
Children of the French Empire: Miscegenation and Colonial Society in French West Africa, 1895-1960 (Oxford University Press, 1999) Edited Volumes (with J.P. Daughton): In God’s Empire: French ...