- The Musée d'Art Moderne de Paris (MAM) has an impressive surround-fresco; "The Electricity Fairy" by Raoul Dufy. I loved the brilliant colors. For the geeks we are, it was fun picking out names from long-ago physics class, ferredi, fermi, ohm... There were also other compelling modern art pieces. Good choice!
- City art museum, Petit Palais - Musée des Beaux-Arts de la ville de Paris, was surprisingly good. We saw some pre-Raphaelites which we had expected to see in London, but didn't. There was a particularly good art nouveau room.
- The Carnavalet Museum – History of Paris was much more engaging than I expected, coming from the London history museum which is practically a children's museum. The exhibits here are cohesive and comprehensive. Nevertheless, like all its cohorts, the museum tells mostly the history of the 1%, not the 99%. I was particularly reminded of this when I learned that the bridges over the Seine used to host multi-story ghettos.
On our way to the Musée d'Art Moderne de Paris we stopped for a picnic lunch at the Trocadéro with an Eiffel Tower view.
A rainy day at the Musée d'Art Moderne.
"The Electricity Fairy" by Raoul Dufy was created for the 1937 World’s Fair in Paris. First a short video.
A Matisse piece commisionsion by Dr. Albert C. Barnes for his Barnes Collection in Philadelphia.
'Two Spanish Ladies' (Circa 1956) by Natalia Goncharova
The museum has several rooms showcasing the art of Josef and Anni Albers. Here is "Homage to the Square: Guarded" by Josef Albers.
And a woven piece by Anni Albers.
'Floating Woman' by Gaston Lachaise
Large works by Sonia Delaunay (1st below), and "Tour Eiffel" by husband Robert Delaunay (2nd).
Still raining, we head to the Petit Palais which houses the Musée des Beaux-Arts de la ville de Paris (City of Paris Museum of Fine Arts).
The entrance hall is quite striking with images of blue people hanging in mid-air.
Sketchers in a Pre-Raphaelite Room. Maybe because this is a City of Paris free museum, there were many people sketching/drawing/painting.
John liked this one a lot. "Funeral for Charles Le Bon, Count of Flanders, held in Bruges in St Christophe church on 22 April 1127" by Jan Van Beers
"Les Halles" by Léon Lhermitte
Heading to the Carnavalet Museum – History of Paris, we stumbled into a half-marathon. ;-)
The History of Paris museum had a series of paintings, all by different artists in different time periods, of the construction of Pont Neuf to the destruction of the houses that were built on it. Fascinating!
The Art Nouveau Georges Fouquet store designed by Alphons Mucha has been moved into the museum.
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