Jean-honore Fragonard
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Plus, Cop26: how can the art world respond? And Fragonard's restored The Swing
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Conservation news
Fragonard’s The Swing has been restored—and it's saucier than ever
The great Rococo painting in the Wallace Collection in London has been cleaned, revealing some mischievous details
Acquisitionsnews
Sargent, Goya, Degas: Frick Collection welcomes its most significant gift to date of works on paper
The 26 works, promised by a New York collecting couple, enhance the museum’s current holdings and add new artists to its collection
Art marketnews
Forgotten Fragonard painting, deemed 'worthless' by its owners, fetches £6.6m at auction
Philosopher Reading is now the third most expensive work by the Rococo artist to sell at auction
Art marketnews
Drawings week hits Paris
The 27th edition of Salon du Dessin at Palais Brongniart assembles 39 dealers from Europe and the US
Exhibitionsarchive
Warsaw borrows Stanislas’s paintings from Dulwich
“Collection for a King” opens on 5 May