Musée du Louvre showcases collection from Louvre Abu Dhabi
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In a first display of its collection outside Abu Dhabi, more than 160 masterpieces from Louvre Abu Dhabi’s permanent collection will be showcased in Musée du Louvre in Paris. The exhibition titled Birth of a Museum will be held at the Napoléon Hall from 2 May until 28 July.
This showcase will provide visitors to Musée du Louvre, Paris a preview of the museum that is set to open late next year in the Saadiyat Cultural District, also the home to the Zayed National Museum and Guggenheim Abu Dhabi.
Visitors will be able to explore artworks from ancient times including a standing Bactrian Princess from the end of the third millennium BCE, a Middle-Eastern gold bracelet with a lion’s head approximately 3000 years-old and a painting by Oman Hemdy Bey from the 1878, titled A Young Emir Studying and a painting by Paul Gauguin Children Wrestling, 1888. Extending into more modern, contemporary artworks include, a Piet Mondrian that was previously part of the former Yves Saint-Laurent and Pierre Bergé Collection, a painting by Alexander Calder and a series of nine canvases by contemporary artist Cy Twombly.
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