Gabriele Basilico (1944-2013)

Born in London, where he studied art history, the Italian curator runs one of Britain’s greatest museums and is planning its 2024 bicentennial celebrations, in the face of Brexit and the pandemic.

The sale of the former Louis-Gabriel Bellon collection was acclaimed by a crop of preemptions for works from ancient Greece.

This cryptic work by Gabriel Ferrier (1847-1914) opened a breach in traditional academicism.

On the occasion of the 33rd São Paulo Biennial, its general commissioner gives us a run-down of art and its dissemination in Brazil and the continent.

A major figure in Japanism during the late 19th century, Gabriel Viardot designed to showcase and drawing-room furniture inhabited by dragons and bedecked with mother-of-pearl.

Gabriel Viardot's inspiration for his most original furniture was ancient China and imperial Japan, as witness this display cabinet.

The Nationalmuseum of Stockholm left the Hotel Drouot with an Académie d'Homme à la pierre noire by Pauline Auzou (1775-1835) and a presumed self-portrait by Marie-Gabrielle Capet (1761-1818), which were sold by Aguttes. The Calvet Museum of Avignon acquired the Portrait of Pierre-François Tonduti by Nicolas Mignard.

Zuchtriegel, who has been general manager of the Greek city of Paestum since 2015, described his new post as “my life's dream and a great responsibility”. He succeeds Massimo Osanna, who is taking up a new role as Head of Italy’s State Museums, and aims to pursue the renovation works necessary to the site’s survival.

On November 26 at Brissonneau's at Drouot, the Bayonne museum placed the winning bid of €5,500 for the large oil on canvas Bacchanal, The Intoxication of Bacchus by Gabriel Deluc (1883-1916). The artist, who was a colorist in the early 20th century, was killed in action at the front in 1916.

Two countries, two cultures, a world of difference: The coincidence between the Philip Guston retrospective’s postponement and the naming of the new Gabrielle Chanel galleries at the City of Paris Fashion Museum sheds light on the world of culture’s divisions and disarray.