SHARING WITH ME

It was good to be getting back to the Tate Modern. Maybe this time with Pierrette it would seem more like a museum rather than a station with people rushing around getting lost - like I had. We were to see the Modigliani retrospective.  An anecdote to start off with:- It wasn’t the voluptuous curves of the naked woman, stretched out across the window of a small Paris gallery in 1917, which horrified the police commissioner who unfortunately lived directly opposite. It was the shocking fact that the artist had given her hair – and not just on her head, but pubic and underarm hair as well. That exhibition was the only solo show in the lifetime of an artist whose life was short, poor, and scarred by illness and alcohol and probably drugs I had read before coming  that the exhibition would bring together ten of the nudes. No photographs either so I resorted to a small catalogue. I did not photo all the nudes…. Reclining nude - 1919 Caryatid - 1913-14 Female Nude - 1916

It had been well over a year since I had gone to VILLENEUVE D’ASCQ for a temporary exhibition at the LAM. It was Modigliani. There hadn’t really been too much that I wanted to see since. But this was a must. A collection. I really like visiting such exhibitions as I wonder where the collector got his idea and why did he take such an interest in the works we will see. The exhibition was called « From Picasso to Seraphine » Wilhem Uhde was a German  art collector and critic, and was one of the first supporters of cubism before fighting for the recognition of those he termed the "modern primitives". By following his progression, from his meeting with Picasso through to his discovery of Séraphine Louis, the LaM modern art museum was to show  a selection of works from major public and private collections in France and abroad. This is more or less what I found on Internet. The LaM home page is not translated into English.  Very strange, as Lille, the largest city close to Villen