Five Masterpieces Stolen in Paris

Picasso, Léger, Modigliani, Matisse, Braque: five masterpieces were stolen from the Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris. It is a sad day for all modern art lovers, for all Paris lovers.

Le Pigeon aux Petit Pois (Pablo Picasso, 1911)

Nature Morte au Chandelier (Fernand Léger, 1922)

La Femme à l'Éventail (Amedeo Modigliani, 1919)

Pastorale, Nymphe et Faune (Henri Matisse, 1906)

L'Olivier près de l'Estaque (Georges Braque, 1906)

(Blogosphere)

A Video Made at Galerie Lareuse

Picasso, Miró, Calder, Matisse, Chagall, Kandinsky, Dufy, all together in the cozy room of Galerie Lareuse, in Georgetown, on the M Street. Kreg Kelley is the curator of the gallery. He is young, enthusiastic and very capable.

Each visit at the gallery is an exciting adventure: you'll discover each time lithographs you didn't know they were there.

I discovered on the web another gallery of prints and lithographs, this time in England, it's Idbury Prints, and it's managed by Neil Philip, a poet, a folklorist, and a great art lover. Each time I am on the web on one of the two galleries, I also dream at the other. Each one is a fabulous place.

(Galerie Lareuse)

(Joan Miró)

Henri Matisse: La Femme

Un dessin par Matisse.

(Galerie Lareuse)

Henri Matisse - Cut-Outs

Henri Matisse, the artist who looked all life long with the eyes of a child and liberated color from the tyranny of rules, developed in his last years these amazing paper cut-outs on canvas that transcend all art rules. It is a triumph of light, of childish play, of delicacy, of fragility. I am looking at them: you could say that's Greek Art, or African art, or Romanian art; it is pure art beyond any definition. It is Mozartian play.

Woman with Amphora and Pomegranates, 1953

Venus, 1952

La Négresse, 1952

Large Composition with Masks, 1953

Les Bêtes de la Mer, 1950

(Washington DC National Gallery of Art)

Rothko Chapel and the Menil Collection

Houston, Texas: the Rothko Chapel, and in front of it the Broken Obelisk created by Barnett Newman to honor the memory of Dr. Martin Luther King.



I saw the works of Rothko and Newman at the Washington National Gallery of Art - and there is a small Rothko Room at the Phillips Collection.
Hopefully I will have the possibility to see the Rothko Chapel during my brief staying in Houston.
And here three paintings from the Menil Collection, nearby the chapel. Picasso, a Still Life with Skull, then an astoundingly beautiful Magritte, La Clef de Verre, and a delicate Black Leaf on Green Background, painted by Matisse.
I leave you with them, I will be back at the end of next week.








(René Magritte)