Julian Schnabel
Tina in a Matador Hat, 1987
Oil, plates, bondo on wood
72h x 60w in (182.88h x 152.40w cm)
© Julian Schnabel Studio; Photo by Phillips/Schwab
PARIS — A game of brinkmanship began when the Musée d’Orsay here invited Julian Schnabel to choose paintings from its 19th-century collection to exhibit alongside his own works of art.
“At a certain moment the museum said: ‘You can’t have this or that painting,’ so I said ‘I can’t do it,’ ” Mr. Schnabel said in a recent interview at the museum. “I thought, if I can’t pick the paintings, there’s no reason for me to say that I picked the paintings.”