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A painting in search of light

As a loyal and recognised museum sponsor, BNP Paribas Foundation seeks to preserve and to help increase the awareness of museums’ treasures by supporting the restoration of their masterpieces through its “BNP Paribas for Art” program. [...]

Restoration at the Quimper Museum of Fine Arts

After having published the album on the permanent collections at the Quimper Museum of Fine Arts in 1993, the BNP Paribas Foundation has just signed a patronage agreement covering the restoration of a set of early Italian paintings that are kept at the museum.

Founded in 1864 to receive the exceptional collection of paintings bequeathed by [...]

“Petals and the Garden of Nymph Ancolie” recaptures its original colours

The famous mural by Max Ernst “Petals and the Garden of the Nymph Ancolie”, which for many years adorned the walls of the Dancing Mascotte, a nightclub in Zurich’s Corso Theatre, underwent restoration in the latter part of 2008.
BNP Foundation in Switzerland is proud to have offered its support for this restoration project, which [...]

Paintings restoration in Museum van Loon in Amsterdam

The BNP Paribas Foundation and BNP Paribas The Netherlands support financially the restoration of 18th century panels painted by Juriaan Andriessen at Museum Van Loon in Amsterdam. In 1976 six wall paintings by Jurriaan Andriessen have been installed in the historical canalhouse, now the Museum van Loon in Amsterdam. The panels were originally made for [...]

Exhibition: “Aimé Maeght and his artists” in London

Sponsored by BNP Paribas, this October the prestigious Royal Academy of Arts in London will present an exhibition of works selected from the collections of the “Fondation Aimé Maeght”, in Saint-Paul-de Vence, France. The exhibition, entitled ‘Miro, Calder, Giacomettie and Braque: Aimé Maeght and his artists’, will contain more than 140 paintings, sculptures, ceramics, prints [...]

Homage to the Art of Pastels at the Musée d’Orsay

The BNP Paribas Foundation  provides patronage to French museums by contributing to the restoration of works of art and by helping to make them better known. 
That is why it is helping the Musée d’Orsay in its lengthy task of restoring its pastels, created with crayons of a texture of chalk or plaster. With the exhibition, [...]