Building the Louvre in Abu Dhabi

Building the Louvre in Abu Dhabi

The walls are going up, the collection — Mondrian, Caillebotte, Monet, Gauguin, Magritte — is growing at the rate of 40 million euros a year spent on acquisitions since 2008. That’s more than any French museum spends, but a lot less than the 191 million euros the Qataris paid two years ago for just one painting, Paul Cézanne’s Les Joueurs de cartes ("The Card Players").

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