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Le Retour du baptème d'après Le Nain: 1917

There was nothing big about it but I wanted to see the 4 Picasso at the Louvre on special display. So Marielle and I went off the other day. Despite the reasonably clear instructions from different attendants, they were not easy to find. The works in question are in a dialogue with paintings of old masters of the 17th, 18th and 19th centuries whose art Picasso admired. Picasso visited the Louvre in 1900 during his first trip to Paris. He drew inspiration from (and sometimes collected works) Le Nain, Watteau, Chardin and Ingres. I agreed with Marielle whole heartedly. It’s a shame that most of his paintings exposed were not next to those that had influenced him. 

Nu Couché - 1932

Still life with Pichet 1919

Paul as Pierrot : 1925

Watteau "Pierrot or as before Gilles" 1718-1719
Seven years after his first visit, he saw Manet’s « Olympia » which in a way contributed the creative process that would eventually culminate in « Les Demoiselles d’Avignon » The Louvre has dedicated a few exhibitions to Picasso. The one I did see was was inspired by Delacroix’s « Women of Algiers ». Spectacular. I just found it a bit of a shame that in view of the different exhibitions around on Picasso at the moment, that this small display was perhaps not up to the Louvre’s standards.

One picture which I had never noticed while visiting this section of the Louvre was this……

Fleury-François Richard  ( 1777-1852) - Little Red Riding Hood
 
Anselm Kiefer - Danaé 2007









And then how about an Anselm Keifer to finish our visit…..




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Michael Keane a dit…
Agree that it would have been better to 'pair' the original painting with the later interpretation.
1/2/16 09:07
Michael Keane a dit…
Love Chagall. It's 'happy' art and quite - in a word we seldom use in Australia - 'enchanting'. One could also add: 'and very French'.
6/2/16 11:00
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