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Magnificent Jewels of Jean Schlumberger: From the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts Collection

Oct 15, 2019 – Jan 15, 2020
Museum Park St, Doha, Qatar

Jean Schlumberger. Among the cognoscenti he’s considered the greatest of 20th-century jewelers. He mixed precious and semiprecious but was a purist, thought diamonds a bit vulgar and loved less common stones—peridot, moonstone. His genius was in his designs. And he could be inspired by clients, especially an imaginative and moneyed client like Rachel Lambert “Bunny” Mellon. In Qatar, in an exhibition that kicks off its new National Museum—a rapturous complex designed by Jean Nouvel—Schlumberger showstoppers from Mellon’s collection, on loan from the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, is a glittering overture. —L.J.

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