A branch of the Louvre in Abu Dhabi will receive about 300 works from French museums
a branch of the Louvre in Abu Dhabi, the opening of which is scheduled for December 2015, at first, will receive in rent about 300 outstanding works from the collections of the 13 French museums - in fact the Louvre, Centre Pompidou, musée d'orsay, the Guimet Museum and Dr
the lease is for ten years. However, in anticipation of the righteous wrath of those who would oppose the sending of these gems collection from Paris to the United Arab Emirates, each work will be given to the Louvre in Abu Dhabi for a period of not more than one year. Most of the work will be provided at the initial stage of operation of the Museum. Over time, when the Museum's collection is already formed, the number of works socratics.
Heads the group promised Abu Dhabi work, the masterpiece of Leonardo Da Vinci's "Beautiful ferronera" ("portrait of an unknown woman") from the collections of the Louvre. Among other treasures, traveling to Abu Dhabi, "the Flutist" (1866) by édouard Manet and "Gare Saint-Lazare (1877) by Claude Monet from the collection of the musée d'orsay, and "still life with Magnolia" (1941) by Henri Matisse from the collection of the Centre Pompidou. Among the rent also includes works by Titian, Vincent van Gogh, Jacques-Louis David, Auguste Rodin, Andy Warhol. In addition to painting and sculpture, Arab branch will lend well as ancient artifacts and decorative items iskusstva.
Sources: artnet.com, artnet.com, artinvestment.ru
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