Word: gachet
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...recovered from obscurity in warehouses where they had languished unseen since before World War II. Versailles, Fontainebleau, the Museum of Decorative Arts and the Museum of Ceramics at Sevres surrendered their treasures. Bequests given long ago to the state on condition that they be shown intact -- the collections of Gachet, Chauchard, Kaganovitch, Personnaz and others -- were also folded into Orsay. In all, the museum's holdings comprise 2,300 paintings and 250 pastels, 1,500 sculptures, 1,100 miscellaneous art objects from furniture to enamel plaquettes, 13,000 photographs (a collection built from scratch in the past eight years...