NOT UP TO STANDARD ?
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