“Madonna, you probably don’t know Amiens.” In a video posted on Facebook on Monday night, the city’s mayor, Brigitte Fouré, challenged the famous singer to invite her to lend a painting to the Picardy museum.
In this message, Brigitte Fouré refers to an article by figaropublished last week, specifying that Madonna would have in her possession a famous painting lost during the bombing of Amiens in 1918.
Disappeared from the Amiens museum
This work, explains Brigitte Fouré, had been ceded to the Amiens museum by the Louvre museum. The city of Amiens then “lost track”. The mayoress also specifies that she does not discuss “the legal acquisition of this work.”
The mayoress of Amiens thus throws a bottle into the sea to be lent the work, as part of the city’s bid to become the European Capital of Culture in 2028.
“I would like you to lend us your painting on this occasion, this year, so that the people of Amiens can find this work and enjoy it,” Brigitte Fouré launches in her video.
The work in question is the painting titled Diana and Endymionpainted in 1822 by Jérôme-Martin Langlois, and disappeared from the Musée de Picardie in 1918 during a bombing raid in World War I.
as specified le figaro In his investigation, a similar work but devoid of date and signature mysteriously reappeared in 1989 at an auction in New York, United States and was bought by the singer for 1.3 million dollars (that is, 1.2 million euros). .
In 2015 it was thanks to a report in the magazine paris party in Madonna that an Amiens curator noticed that the painting was on display at the American artist’s home. Following this discovery, the Picardy museum filed a complaint against X for the theft of the painting. The singer never reacted.
Source: BFM TV
