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Claude Monet, The Jetty at Le Havre (detail), 1868-69, private collectionDr Victor Claass(Sorbonne University - Louvre Museum)Friday, 15 March 2019, 5:30 pmWarburg InstituteWoburn SquareLondon WC1H 0ABAdmission free; please register for this event through the Events section of the School of Advanced Study (SAS).&#160;During the spring of 1939, French cultural propaganda services shipped numerous works of art from public and private collections to Argentina, to be displayed at the Buenos Aires Museum of Fine Arts. Trapped on the other side of the Atlantic after the outbreak of the war, these paintings (including major pieces by David, Ingres, Delacroix, Manet and Monet) then toured Latin America and the United States during the conflict. This presentation will retrace the little-known history of these objects – from their departure in 1939 to their repatriation in 1947 – and question the material, as well as symbolical implications of their wanderings.&#160;