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Born into a working-class family, Rose Valland (1898-1980) became a schoolteacher before graduating from the Fine Arts Academy of Lyon and the Paris École des Beaux-Arts. Starting in 1932, she worked at the Jeu de Paume Museum in Paris, her position somewhat uncertain. She found herself alone in 1940, when the Nazis occupied "her museum" to store the looted works of art that were intended to enrich Hitler's personal collection. The owners of these stolen pieces were, for the most part, Jewish, and many would never return from the concentration camps.
By pointing out to the French Resistance the storage sites of the works of art, Valland made it possible to safeguard them from the air raids at the end of World War II. She also participated in the evacuation of the public collections to hiding places in western and southwestern France. She is the heroine of The Monuments Men, by Robert M. Edsel - soon to be a major motion picture. After the war, she joined the French armed forces to help with the recuperation of the artwork in Germany, where she remained until 1953, aiding in the reconstruction of that country's museums.
In 1962, Valland published Le front de l'art. Her memoir was adapted for the Hollywood movie The Train, filmed in 1965. Based on archival documents, photos, and various narrations, this work attempts to retrace the path of a little-known Resistance fighter whose enthusiasm and courage is commemorated by the Association la mémoire de Rose Valland located in Saint-Étienne-de-Saint-Geoirs (Isère department). No s'han trobat descripcions de biblioteca. |
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Anyway, it wasn't hard to find. All you have to do is look for a huge number of people standing 25 feet from a fairly small painting (it's only about 16"x20"), trying to get a good photo over and around every other person's head.
Fortunately for us, I was touring the museum in a wheelchair. When one of the guards spotted us coming, he beckoned us over, unhitched the red velvet rope marking the painting's sanctum ... and let us approach her. We have pictures in case you don't believe me.
In any event, if it wasn't for a woman named Rose Malland and some other brave citizens of La Belle France, La Joconde would have have been hanging on that wall (she also wouldn't have been stolen a couple of times and vandalized at least once, either). She would have disappeared someplace in Germany and may have gone up in flames when Hitler decided he didn't want any major work of art to survive him. If he couldn't win the War, he was determined he would punish the world by murdering great art.
At the end of World War II, the French Resistance found itself in a different war. European art treasures were being stolen wholesale by every Nazi who could get his hands on something. The walls of the Louvre (and all the other great museums) had frames hanging on its walls, but there was nothing in them. However, some of those frames had not been emptied by the Germans but by the people who believed that their country had laid a singular trust in them -- save the art.
Rose Valland was one of the preeminent art historians of the period. And this book tells the absorbing story of how she saved Mona Lisa and other work so that, 70 years later, I would could take a picture of my husband with her painting behind him. (