Musée Picasso is located at the Chateau Grimaldi in Antibes overlooking the Mediterranean. The museum has some spectacular views of the sea from its outdoor sculpture garden, which contains works by Picasso and others.
Picasso had stayed at the chateau for a couple of very productive months in 1946 and had visited and stayed in Antibes on other occasions. My favorite work in this modest-sized collection is a remarkable tapestry of the painting "Night Fishing at Antibes". Picasso had done the oil painting that is the subject of the tapestry in 1939 shortly before the outbreak of World War II. The oil painting itself is at MOMA in New York (and I now understand the museum shop salesperson's confusing answer to my question as to where I could get a print of the tapestry). Unfortunately, according to the MOMA website, the work is "not on view" at the present. Copies are widely available on the web - here's one of them.
The painting was on view today at MoMA. Thank you for your commentary.
ReplyDeleteThank you for the update. I'll need to get there soon to see it.
DeleteI had Rupert Brooke "Fish" and "Heaven" and this painting at the back of my mind when I wrote this about the fish in Playa Blanca Marina in Lanzerote at night;
DeleteThe Night Fishes
"In a cool curving world he lies/ and ripples with dark ecstasies”
Rupert Brooke -Fish
Glistening
(Relucen)
Fishes
Flashes
Marina
Lights
Pick
Up
Gold
(Oro)
Live Silver!
(De Plata viva!)
Bronze
Iron
Stone
Flesh
And
Blood
Shadow
Fish
(El pez!)
Sombre
Mirrored
In
The
Cries & whispers-
Less
Water
(Reflejado)
De
La
(Acequia)
I would love any feedback
Garry Franks
beautyofwashinglines@yahoo.co.uk