The Hokkaido Modern Art Museum was a trolly ride and then a few blocks away. It featured the work of Matisse, Rouault, Chagall and Hermine David all together featuring the Art Books that they made at the behest of Amboise Vollard. Vollard had a printmaking studio and he contacted these artists and encouraged them to make limited editions of a new medium, art books. Vollard's contacts with bibliophiles, art lovers, publishers and literati gave him access to arrange contracts for illustrations of poetry books and novels. The artists seemed to really enjoy this new form of artistic expression. Vollard also had interactions with Picasso, Renoir and Cezanne. This guy was very connected in Paris at the turn of the last century.
The museum is in a modern building
A heavy baby
Kinetic sculptures
Paintings for your happiness
Bird watching begins, Cranes
Peacock
A shark?
Pablo Picasso: "Blind Minotaur Guided By a Girl in the Night"
Chagall: "Trokia in the Evening"
An example of the limited edition Art Books
Rouault: "Sainted Face"
Rouault: "This Will Be the Last Time Father"
Marie Laurencin "Three Women"
So many illustrations from one of the Art Books
Title Page
Matisse!
Andre Derain: "Nude With Cat"
An entire wall of Marc Chagall
Very vivid colors
Illustrations from a classic Greek story Daphins and Chloe
Chagall!
Flowers over Paris
Even Joan Miro got into the act
Love this
A tiger!
Upstairs was a collection of Art Deco glass pieces
Rene Lalique used this opalescent glass that positively glowed
Angular
Bounding antelope
A blue bird
Nice contrast of the dark and the light
Let them Dance
Let there be light
Red flowers
Grasshoppers
Lalique again, this one is from 1925
Tis one is named Susanne
The sinuous design of these mermaids is delightful
A glass hood ornament
Dragon Fly
Snake with open mouth ready to strike!
Do not open the jar!
Tokyo skyline
Looking down at this large bronze
Gift shop goodies
Large metal piece
The top and the bottom moved independently
Ivy growing on the wall
What is this on the ground?
Even more over here by these two young people
Did it snow?
Coming over to talk to us
They are photo journalists taking pictures for a Japanese newspaper
All of the "snow" is seed pods from this poplar tree
It is even stuck on the bugs
Thick on the ground
Stuck in the evergreen tree
Going on for quite some distance
On the other side is a carped of pollen
Someone has been having fun!
Cones
