Pablo Picasso Francis Bacon Salvador Dali Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres Ernest Pignon-Ernest Pompidou Plans a Roving Museum Sotheby's Scores Bilbao, the Sequel?

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The three young Catholics, aged between 23 and 28, were caught altering the work by surveillance cameras. They were then picked up by police, who released them after questioning. In an interview with the newspaper La Dépêche du Midi, the artist, Ernest Pignon-Ernest, questioned why the three were “troubled by such images.” His painting was inspired by Ingres’s 1824 Le Voeu de Louis XIII (The Vow of Louis XIII) and is part of the exhibition “Ingres et les Modernes” (Ingres and the Moderns) at the Ingres Museum in Montauban, which contains the world's largest collection of Ingres paintings. The exhibit features other artists, including Picasso, Dalí, and Bacon, who were inspired by the Neoclassicist painter as well.

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