After our yummy lunch we headed over to a tea shop to pick up some good teas. A gyokuro, a couple of sencha teas and a white tea should keep us happy for a while. We made it back to the Picasso museum and were able to see the special exhibit of Anna Mailino's work as well as one floor of Picasso's works. Due to the strike the museum was a bit short of staff. We were able to get discounted tickets and get a refund on our full price tickets.
Fashion photography is always going on in Paris
A little shrine
A big beautiful clock
On a big beautiful church
This fuzzy dog was out walking by himself.
I have an idea,
Eighteen ideas!
The doors are very nice
A princely portrait
With a maiden
Fanning the scent of the tea right up Leslie's nose
Old time balance scale
Over 800 teas in stock
Filling up the jars
It would take almost three years to taste each of the teas if you tried a new one each day
Tea requites a tasty pastry
Layers of goodness
Free chocolate bits too
Bean to bar chocolate from all over the world
The chocolate from Venezuela had the most limited production
Street art
Store front art
A pink rainbow
Pretty
A big mural
The vine that died
We are at Picasso
Nice logo
Who is the GOAT?
The works of Anna Mailino
I get a feel of a ghost's outline in barbed wire
Censorship
This was made from unfired clay
It is delicate and may actually crumble before the exhibition is over
Enigmatic
Roots or vines
The top floors seen on lur was to the Picasso works
Once again the venue is a beautiful as the art
Paris has been blessed with having so many mansions to turn into museums
Picasso was in on all the modern art movements. He was the inventor of cubism and a major player in surrealism
This reminds me of stopping and "looking at the map" the code for taking a break
The condensation on these windows looked like it was alive
Smiling in the chilly air
Sphinx
The bird is holding up the ceiling
The blue period had works with a limited color pallet and marginalized people as subjects. This 1903 work is a portrait of a brothel madam, blind in one eye and from Barcelona
So very two dimensional. Many of the paintings here were works that Picasso kept for himself
Gustav Coquiot a French art critic and writer. Not the proprietor of the Moulin Rouge as I initially thought. This is an early work much in the style of the impressionists
A but gaunt and like Toulouse-Lautrec he painted the marginalized people and showcased the inequality of the society of the time
He dabbled in sculpture, ceramics, painting, drawings and prints
Pared down pallet and frame
A self portrait
A painting by Moliere from his private collection
A smaller painting but a very deconstructed scene
Some of his constructions that he used to paint from. This is a guitar
A guitar is in the center of this painting
This floor had many different styles represented
The description hinted of two musicians and the sound hole of a guitar
These could be paper cutouts
A more recognizable Picasso
Hanging out at the beach
The three graces
This was unfinished but a great start
In the gift shop a fun mobile
The goat at the entrance
Street art on our drive home
Someone painted her finger nails
It has been 3 years and 97 days since we began our Migration
