Still the Prat collection! He becomes a doting groupie… worse, he has shady intentions! And no, Orléans is not Paris and does not yet show the collection; she dissects it, in an exercise that explains the collector, his joys and his reasons. And what could be more logical than this happening in Orléans when we remember that its museum, too close to Paris to benefit from the generosity of the Chaptal law, had to wait until 1825 to be founded by a curious bourgeoisie. We thus saw some of its donors return from Drouot with the purchase that a wise director indicated to complete the revolutionary seizures of the Château de Richelieu... Thus the exhibition of the intimate collection doubles as a mini-exhibition file proposing to revive the Paul Fourché museum, another patron, whose work mysteriously disappeared during the phoney war instead of burning down during the bombings of June 1940, and whose certain works, paintings and drawings, sometimes reappear.

Extrait de l'article de Tom Laurent publié dans le N°109 de la revue Art Absolument. Parution le 11 janvier 2024.

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