The Grand Trianon hosts the Peter the Great exhibition in the park of Versailles
The Grand Trianon at Versailles was used by General de Gaulle for state visits and it was one of Emmanuel Macron’s great « coup » to invite Vladimir Putin there, for the inauguration of « Peter the Great, a tsar in France », an exhibition conceived with St Petersburg’s State Hermitage Museum, to celebrate one of history’s greatest monarchs’ visit to France, 300 years ago.Read More
“Arriving in New York”
American artist Harriet Clark was raised in Switzerland and in Paris, lives in Mexico and travels to Great Britain and around the world. Her new project, Pigsinshorts is the funniest blog and travelling guide you can think of! Read More
Portrait of the artist after a photography, ca 1885, Pittsburgh, Carnegie Museum of Art
Among the thousand works painted by the Impressionist Paul Cézanne before he died at 67, there are only 200 portraits, all devoted to his close relatives and many self portraits. So the exhibition on the fifth floor of Musée d’Orsay is interesting because it lets us into the initmacy of his private life.Read More
Bruno Labouret, Landscape, 2016, pastel
It is rare to discover new galleries near the Champs Elysées and since Larry Gagosian opened his on 4 rue de Ponthieu, nothing much has moved in the area. So I was happy to walk into the delightful BAO space opened by Philippe Ageon who represents among other artists Peter Klasen. The occasion was the double exhibition of Portuguese wood sculptor Joâo Manardu and of Lugano based French painter Bruno Labouret, who was showing his new pastels and gouaches. Read More
The “Imagine” John Lennon piano, limited edition. The singer composed the song on a similar instrument, which sells for 108 120€
Steinway & sons had not opened a new shop for 70 years since the London shop was inaugurated and it is therefore an amazing event that they chose the heart of Paris, on boulevard Saint Germain to open a beautiful show room with an auditorium. All pianos are made in Hamburg.Read More
Wooden Houses, Boston, 1930
American photographer Walker Evans (1903-1975) has to be one of the most popular of 20 th century artists and his shots of the Depression years commissioned by the Farm Security administration are so well known that it took me a little while to visit Centre Pompidou’s show of 400 photographs and letters. I finally went just before dinner at 7.30 pm and it was ideally filled with young handsome visitors curious of knowing more about America !Read More
André Derain, Young lady peeling an apple, 1838-39, Knox Art Gallery
There seems to be a new trend in Paris of exhibiting painters of the same generation and making them be friends. This winter at Musée Marmottan, the beautiful Hodler, Munch and Monet show, recently at the Louvre, Vermeer and his contemporaries, and today at Musée d’Art moderne de la Ville de Paris, Derain, Balthus, Giacometti. The paintings are fabulous but do we need to have three apple peelers hanging together to be impressed?Read More
Franck Lundangi “L’homme spirituel”, 2016
At a time when Paris is the center of many African art exhibitions, the Jean Pigozzi collection at Fondation Louis Vuitton, « Nous et les autres » at Musée de l’Homme and shows a film on racism, « I am not your negro » written by James Baldwin and directed by Haitian film director Raoul Peck, Galerie Anne de Villepoix exhibits Franck Lundangi, an artist from Angola who has settled in France in 1990.Read More