Million-dollar gaze? / French cultural injection for Big Easy (Thursday 10 November 2005)
'Slacker' rakes it in
compiled by Allyson Corcoran
Recently, at Christie's annual autumn auction in London, Picasso's Sylvette on a green armchair sold for £4.5m, while a work by Monet was not sold because no bids reached the estimate of £3.3m. The largest sale of the auction was of Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec's 1886 La blanchisseue, which sold for £12.6. The two-week Impressionist and Modern art sale brought in £91m all together.
The sale of Toulouse-Lautrec's La blanchisseuse considerably exceeded the 1997 sale of his work Danseuse assise aux bas roses, which was sold for £8.2m. La blanchisseuese shows a red-headed woman laundry-worker gazing out of her window. Don't go start painting your cleaning lady slacking off on the job and expect £12.6. Something tells me it takes more than that. The painting was purchased by an anonymous buyer.
"Lafayette, we are going to the museum!"
compiled by Mary Garboden
The French culture minister, Renaud Donnedieu de Vabres, and the president of the Louvre, Henri Loyrette, are adding to the their government's contributions after the New Orleans hurricane disaster with something other than emergency supplies. Thinking ahead to the future of the famously culturally hip city, these men are intended visiting New Orleans last Friday to announce a series of artistic initiatives. These initiatives include the lending of some fifty artworks from the Louvre to the New Orleans Museum of Art, tentatively scheduled for late 2006 or early 2007. Another idea in the works is a concert at the Palais des Congrès in Paris that officials hope will raise more than $130,000 for Louisiana musicians who may have lost everything and be in need of a fresh start.
While there may be more immediate demands at this point in New Orleans, these contributions will not only help the city attract the tourists upon which it thrived so much, but also to maintain its cultural tradition and identity.
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