BIG PAINTING IN LOUVRE
Huge Canvas May Be Unrolled. LONDON, November 1.0. A giant rolled-up painting which has gathered dust for a century in the Louvre because there was insufficient room to examine it may soon be pushed out of a window and unfolded in the courtyard below for aerial photographs says the New York “Herald-Tribune’s” Paris edition. This is the plan envisaged by the French Minister of Culture, Mr Andre Malraux, who suggested during a debate in the National Assembly that a cameraman poised in a helicopter should be used to find out what is painted on the long-forgotten canvas.
M. Germain Bazin, chief official at the Louvre, said no living persons today had set eyes on th: painting the size of which is 60 feet by 80 feet. Over the years a few feet of canvas had been examined but there was no room anywhere to unroll it properly. It seemed to feature people dressed in costume dating from around the beginning of the Second Empire. Mr Bazin suggested the canvas should be cut into sections and then spread out in the courtyard.
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Press, Volume XCVIII, Issue 29058, 21 November 1959, Page 13
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