A NEW COLLECTION AND FASCINATING AT THAT
Of course when I saw the ad. "Tokyo-Paris", I did not link it at all with the name Bridgestone. When I got to the Orangerie museum, I went into the permanent collection, knew that I had see it many times, so where was the Bridgestone Collection? Then the title suddenly meant something to me. Rather, I understood it. I read at once, Paul Guillaume (1891-1934) The Dictator -1929 Renoir (1841-1919) Portrait of young man and young girl - 1875-80 « Shojira Ishibashi called his company Bridgestone, a literal translation of his surname: ishi (stone) and bashi (bridge) ». Obviously he must have wanted to encompass both cultures. European and his own. It was early in his career that Shojiro Ishibashi (1889-1976), showed a passion for arts, and more particularly Western arts, which he began to collect as of the late 1930s. In 1952 he commissioned the building of a museum at the heart of Tokyo to house his collection. Impressionist pieces as well as We...