This portrait was for many years part of a private collection in Paris and so the general public had only rare occasions to enjoy it. Today, thanks to its purchase by the Heritage Fund, the work can be seen by everyone at the Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium.
The King Baudouin Foundation has recently published a booklet entitled 'Le collectionneur privé, passion et transmission' in partnership with the art magazine COLLECT Arts Antiques Auctions and the BRAFA.
Not only a testimony to the historical context in which it was created, this painting, acquired by the Heritage Fund, also marks an important landmark in Antoine Mortier’s oeuvre.
Mr and Mrs Guy Dessicy have donated around a hundred letters written by Hergé, the famous comic book artist, to his private secretary Marcel Dehaye. The letters are to be entrusted to the Bibliotheca Wittockiana in Brussels, thus guaranteeing their careful conservation.
A substantial part of Hugo Claus’s archives are now accessible to the public thanks to the Heritage Fund, which has acquired the archives and entrusted them to the Letterenhuis in Antwerp. The historical, literary and scientific importance of the archives is indisputable.
