The party in my atelier was great about 40 people came throughout the evening, scientists, writers, collectors, artists. Considering the last opening I had where ony two people came it was a great turnout. See the photo.
This last weekend I went to the Orsay for the very first time. My freinds came from Florence and Siena with the overnight train from Campo di Marte to Bercy for the worst weekend. It rained and was very cold. Poor things, Monday spring hit Paris, all the girls have bare legs with short skirts, makes me freeze just to look at them.
The Orsay was great, no lines and few people. We went straight to the Impressionist painting rooms on the 5th floor. Toulouse Latrec reconfirms his place in my heart as my favorite. Manet gets me too, what technique. I was surprised at how grey the paintings were over all even the Van Goghs. In the Van Gogh room I had the net sensation that all the paintings are copies. I said this to my friends and that bothered one of them that had just spent 12 hours in a train not sleeping to see the paintings, oops. You can almost spit on the Van Goghs and they are supposedly the most important. But the Latrec's were in special glass cases in lowlighted rooms.
Friday I leave for Beaune, Lyon, Nice and then Arezzo, Florence, Giogoli, Livorno, Castellina in Chianti, and Miniera di Murlo. I can't wait !!!!!!!! Real expresso!!!! No smoky restaurants!!!!! My dog!
