Marc Restellini was born on 24 June 1964 and is a French art historian, museum director, founder of the Pinacotheque de Paris, and a specialist on Amedeo Modigliani.
12 Facts About Marc Restellini
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Marc Restellini organized his first exhibition Portraits et paysages chez Zborowski in 1989 at the City Hall of the 6th district in Paris.
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In 1992, Marc Restellini organized Tobu Art Museum's opening exhibition in Tokyo, the first significant exhibition of Modigliani's masterpieces ever shown in Japan.
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In 2003, Marc Restellini decided to launch his own museum, the Pinacotheque de Paris with an exhibition of Picasso's artworks.
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Marc Restellini opened another museum in the historical building of the Fort Canning Arts Centre in Singapore in 2015, modelled after the Paris Pinacotheque.
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Marc Restellini began to work on Amedeo Modigliani during his studies.
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Marc Restellini has originated some of the most important exhibitions dedicated to the artist.
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Marc Restellini puts technological and scientific advances at the service of Modigliani's work.
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For example, Marc Restellini is the first to use a comparative pigment analysis protocol for a painting's catalogue.
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Marc Restellini continues to work on a Modigliani catalogue raisonne with the Marc Restellini Institute.
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Marc Restellini was implicated in the Bouvier Affair as one of the art experts referenced by Bouvier to justify the high prices of the artworks sold to Dmitry Rybolovlev.
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In late 2019, the Court of Auditors in Florence opened an investigation into the financing of the Amedeo Modigliani exhibition in Livorno, of which Marc Restellini was the main organizer and curator.