Tomorrow is travel day and so today will be spent tidying up – make up the bed with clean sheets ready for the next trip and clean out the refrigerator. We are packed already and having just finished breakfast, with my feet up, I thought to send out my last post from this trip.
Inside view of this complicated structure by architect Frank Gehry.
We visited the Louis Vuitton Foundation museum to see Ellsworth Kelly and Henri Matisse. The Matisse was a small exhibit concentrating on his Red Room period.
Parisupdate.com has a nice write-up on the exhibit which I’m trying to link here but haven’t figured out how to do. (I’m sure a quick search will bring it up. )
Can’t get more abstract than Kelly – color and shapes.
That exhibit was combined with Matisse. The Red Room painting is of interest because Matisse, after painting it using objects of he had created, left it and then months later painted over the entire painting with red leaving the objects floating in space. In this exhibit, for the first time, the curators brought together the original objects in the Red Room canvas .
Above and below are close ups showing the detail of the overpainting outlining the original painting. Only recently was this technique Matisse employed here discovered.
Mori Yashida is a Japanese pastry chef here in Paris whom I’ve mentioned before. Her only patisserie in the whole world is a few blocks from us. Lines form out the door around holidays and most Sundays. I bought some goodies to take to a friends the other evening. Here is a sampling—-
Almost next store is another bakery with the more usual pastries for dessert. (sorry for the glare.)
On the way from our dinner on the other side of Paris I managed these two photos out the taxi window.
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So happy you’ve enjoyed them.
Thanks for the “birds eye” view of Paris for those of us haven’t had an opportunity to see Paris in the way you have presented!
Since I’ve joined the many statistics relating to COVID occurrences, this is a great escape from the sick bed to dream of better days!
Enjoy every last minute! Pastry is always of museum quality! Yummy! Thanks for sharing. See you when you get home!
You got Covid?
YUP! Bad case….this one hit me hard….needed to take Paxlovid. Yuk!
Pari janabar!
Throw me in that briar patch, please. 🙏
Love it!
I loved it all; Kelly, pâtisseries and the view of the moon from your living room; magnifique!
Bon retour les amis!
Thank you!!
Merci, Carolann! Wishing you and George smooth travels home tomorrow and we look forward to welcoming you back in Orleans. xo Aideen & Peter
The works of art pasteries belong in a museum of their own. Safe travels.
You make a good point!
Have a safe trip home. I’m looking forward to greeting you up
welcome home!!!
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