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The Cy Twombly Foundation Has Escalated Its Battle Against the Louvre, Filing a Lawsuit Against the Museum Over a Renovated Gallery
The foundation says the redesigned space, which features a permanent installation by the artist, fundamentally alters his work.
A photograph of the Salle des Bronzes in progress.
The Cy Twombly Foundation is broadening its fight against the Louvre by sailing a lawsuit towards the museum, which the foundation accuses of having compromised a permanent Cy Twombly installation.
The development comes after the museum made substantial changes to a gallery adorned with a vast blue-and-yellow ceiling mural by the late US painter.
Palace Intrigue at the Louvre, as a Paint Job Leads to a Lawsuit
The Cy Twombly Foundation is taking the Paris museum to court over a renovation it calls an “aberration.” The timing of the dispute has raised suspicions.
The newly repainted Salle des Bronzes in the Louvre. The museum is being renovated while it is closed because of the coronavirus pandemic.Credit.Dmitry Kostyukov for The New York Times
Published March 5, 2021Updated March 12, 2021
PARIS In the midst of a pandemic, with empty galleries, shuttered doors and plunging revenues, the Louvre faces new turbulence: a legal fight over the color of its walls.
The artist s foundation is threatening to sue the museum for redecorating the space.
February 23, 2021
Cy Twombly in the Salle des Bronzes, one of the oldest sections of the Louvre museum, with his painting above. Photo: Francois Guillot/AFP via Getty Images.
In 2010, one year before his death, Cy Twombly unveiled a 3,770-square-foot painting on the ceiling of the Louvre’s Salle des Bronzes in Paris. The famed artist’s installation was inspired by the 1,000-some works of ancient Greek, Roman, and Etruscan art on view in the light-colored, airy gallery at the time.
But after the museum recently renovated the space replacing the marble floor with parquet, painting the walls a deep red, and adding a black dado around the perimeter the Cy Twombly Foundation is threatening legal action.
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