SHARING WITH ME

Back from Turkey and onto Roubaix. An hour and a half door to door trip for me. The last Picasso exhibition had been in Switzerland. This time it was a very different discovery. An intimate portrait done by the photographer David Douglas Duncan of Picasso over 17 years. I had planned to do this trip at the beginning of February. 

 Inside the museum Art Deco arch Entrance to La Piscine A little about «La Piscine». Or perhaps the Pool. An Art and Industry museum located in Roubaix which is about a 10 minute train ride from Lille in the north of France. It once housed a indoor swimming pool with a very art deco interior. The pool was closed in 1985 and remodeled into a museum which opened in 2000. The entrance is rather cold and off putting but once inside it is delight I had planned to arrive from Paris at the end of the morning. Most people are eating at this time and museums tend to be pretty empty. Self portrait 1957  This was the first image that greeted me.