The day the Louvre gave me the keys of the Museum for three months. The Director greeted me with the easel of Cezanne on the desk and kindly shared with me the archives that they had on each copist since August 1793= Picasso was fist fighting all the time, thrown out and begging to come back in. Dali asked to copy an old master painting, he stared to the painting for a long time and started painting a lobster. My favorite memory was to arrive very early in the morning and roll my easel half a mile on the wood floor of the empty Museum. After 3 month the director asked me to show the painting. So on Tuesday when the Museum is closed the entire staff of the Louvre gathered in front of the painting for 30 minutes before it left.
