Galerie Canesso

The Master a new painter of reality in late 17th century europe of the Blue Jeans

Exhibition from 16 September to 6 November 2010 26, rue Laffitte 75009 Paris • tel. + 33 1 40 22 61 71 • open from Monday to Saturday, 11 am to 7 pm www.canesso.com

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Parigi CoNteNts september 2010 VoLume CLxxII No.579

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September 2010 £5.95

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Cy twombly at the twombly at the t louvre | Jacques garcia | Sèvres porcelain parparpIS bIennale preVIew

September 2010 £5.95

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Jacques garcia | Sèvres porcelain | Cy twombly at the twombly at the t louvre parparpIS bIennale SpeCIal prevIew frenCh fUrnItUre by michael pick | tom phIllIpS’S african Collection larI pIttman and roy dowell by mark rappolt frenCh fUrnItUre by michael pick | tom phIllIpS’S african Collection larI pIttman and roy dowell by mark rappolt

25 editor’s Letter The late work of artists 26 Agenda What’s on around the world in September roy Dowell and Lari pittman: pp. 74–79

Cover left: The ceiling by Cy Twombly in the Salle des Bronzes at the louvre, paris. See Edwin Heathcote’s article on pp. 62–66. photo: Musée du louvre/ angèle Dequier Right: Jacques Garcia at home in the Château de Champ de Bataille, France. Sylvain levy-alban’s interview is on pp. 42–47. photo: Christopher Sturman

Features 32 L’art en paris Susan Moore previews the paris Biennale 42 A taste for history Jacques Garcia talks to Sylvain levy-alban about his passion for collecting 48 the Artist as Collector Tom phillips discusses his collection of african goldweights with Isabel andrews 56 objects of Desire Selma Schwartz introduces Sèvres’ veilleuses – exquisite 18th-century items of luxury 62 Aspiring to the heavens Edwin Heathcote reports on Cy Twombly’s ceiling design at the louvre, paris 68 remarkable and Curious Michael pick analyses 18thcentury French furniture in English collections 74 houses of Light Mark Rappolt meets Roy Dowell and lari pittman in their modernist los angeles homes 80 bronzino’s Drawings: Authorship and preservation Carmen C. Bambach and George R. Goldner discuss the relationship between preservation and authorship in Bronzino’s drawings sEPTEMBEr 2010 apollo 19