“The King Playing with the Queen”, a work by Max Ernst, a German painter and sculptor known for his part in the Surrealist movement, is being restored. [...]
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Thierry Lagache
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Foundation Beyeler: Restoration of Fernand Léger’s “Le passage à niveau” (1912) with Foundation BNP Paribas Suisse completed. [...]
Read more: The Restoration of Fernand Léger’s “Le passage à niveau” work of art is completed
Thierry Lagache
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A project to restore “Jar of Apricots”, a 1758 painting by Jean-Siméon Chardin (1699-1779), has just come to fruition thanks to the support of BNP Paribas (Canada) and the BNP Paribas Foundation. The project was part of the Foundation’s wide-ranging support for museums.
Chardin is one of the most celebrated French painters of the 18th century, [...]
Chantale Beaudoin
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Mission accomplished! The National Palace Museum Taiwan (NPM) has completed the restoration of the Qing dynasty mirror case known as the “Tang Dynasty Immortals Mirror”… [...]
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Joyce Leung
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On 2 May, Nicolas Poussin’s newly restored seventeenth century masterpiece, The Crossing of the Red Sea, was back on display at Australia’s oldest public art gallery, the National Gallery of Victoria.
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Sarah Staruszkiewicz
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Since 2011, the Musée de l’Elysée preserves the photographic found of Charlie Chaplin which covers the artist’s overall professional career. [...]
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Lizette Rivera
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With the support of the BNP Paribas Switzerland Foundation, the Fondation Beyeler is restoring a key painting in the collection, “Le passage à niveau “by Fernand Léger (1912). The aim of the restoration project, in addition to scholarly research, is to stabilize the work’s complex and fragile substance.
“Le passage à niveau” in the Context of [...]
Thierry Lagache
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It took five months to restore Veronese’s masterpiece at the Musée d’Art et d’Histoire [...]
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Thierry Lagache
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The BNP Paribas Foundation has been a trailblazer in actions to promote awareness of and preserve the heritage of museums. For 25 years it has been a loyal and widely recognized patron of museums, regularly funding restoration of works. The Foundation also supports the publication of museum catalogues to heighten awareness of the wealth of [...]
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Thierry Lagache
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IDE: to create income opportunities for poor rural households
Project Why: to create a model of education for for children in India
