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artblog book review: A love letter from Paris

Post by Andrea Kirsh Paul Cézanne (French, 1839 – 1906), The Large Bathers, 1906. Oil on canvas, 82 7/8 x 98 3/4 inches. Philadelphia Museum of Art, Purchased with the W. P. Wilstach Fund, 1937 Pierre Rosenberg, long at the Louvre, ultimately as President-Director from 1994-2001, is perhaps the best-known and most widely-traveled curator of European paintings in the world. I remember seeing him at a professional conference, then sighting him, always with a characteristic red scarf around his neck, in various museums around the globe. He’s written a book that might have been sponsored by the U.S. Department of ... More » »