Histoires extraordinaires de l'art à l'Hôtel Drouot. De Vermeer à Louise Bourgeois. Occident Under his authority

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Ninety years later

Histoires extraordinaires de l'art à l'Hôtel Drouot. De Vermeer à Louise Bourgeois. Occident Under his authorityWe often forget that in the 19th century and up until the Second World War, Paris was the global epicenter of artistic life. The beating heart of the art trade was located at the Htel Drouot and its various annexes, an Aladdin's cave of ancient and modern creation. and a place of unusual social mixing. Contemporary paintings were sold there, including those by Degas, Picasso, and Picabia. Old masters were rescued from oblivion, as was the case with