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Centre Pompidou restores three paintings damaged in the Beirut explosion

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Centre Pompidou restores three paintings damaged in the Beirut explosion
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The Centre Pompidou treated three paintings damaged in the 2020 Beirut explosion. They included Kees van Dongen’s portrait of Nicolas Sursock, the collector whose former home houses the Sursock Museum.

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Rembrandt, Self-Portrait (1630), Nationalmuseum, Stockholm

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