PART 1 - A NEW COLLECTION AT THE MAM
It was going to be a big day but until I came home, I didn’t realize just how big nor important it was. A visit was programmed visit with Claude Rocca ( Edward Hopper last week ) mid afternoon at the MAM. For the first and of prime importance, exhibition called ART at WAR, France 1938-1947. From what I had read and the book I had been given on this period, it could only be «rich».....
The other exhibition is The Michael Werner Collection. I had read the description a little too quickly and was expecting to see the 127 pictures and sculptures he has recently donated to the museum which comprises the work of some 40 artists. I was not expecting 900 works presented in 20 rooms. Even when I started strolling through the first rooms and not studying the leaflet which we are given, I was not ready for the culture shock. The reference point for the exhibition is in Paris, a city (and how I understand this), which was and is adopted by so many foreign artists. At one time they were ass