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Another Paris Postcard: Bad News/Good News

So, let's start with the bad news, and get that out of the way. . . Yes, against our faint hopes, our train tomorrow has been cancelled due to the SNCF work action. Luckily, we'd backed our trip up with bus tickets, so we get to sample that mode of transportation tomorrow morning. . . .

As well, there has been one torrential downpour, part of an impressive orage (thunder!! lightning!!) that sent us scurrying for shelter (in a café -- camaraderie with others who had failed to carry an umbrella or order a rowboat. Wine as well -- not such a bad way to wait out a storm).  . .  Not going to tempt fate, but I survived that sans raincoat or umbrella or anything more than Birkenstocks on my feet, so I'm not (yet!) regretting my packing. . . .

Today (we've moved over to the Good News already), I was back to enjoying the comfort of a linen dress, no back-up other than that scarf, in the beautiful Jardin Café of Le Petit Palais.

We lunched there after our third art exhibition in three days: Russian Avant-Garde at Pompidou Centre,
Mary Cassatt at Musée Jacquemart-Andrée  -- where I sketched these beasts before and after lunch -- the museum restaurant there is a must-visit, such a gorgeous room.

Sorry, I see I didn't hold the camera steady and those palm fronds are not well focused. . . 

And then today's exhibition at Le Grand Palais (right across the street from Le Petit Palais where we had lunch) -- a wonderful show, if challenging: huge collection of works spanning his career, his important turn from figurative realism to brilliant, rigorous, intellectual abstraction which is, nevertheless, aesthetically satisfying, emotionally engaging -- his work with colour, line, form is so moving to see develop over the decades. Truly a tour-de-force.  And I was so tickled to see Duchesse write about one of the paintings she enjoyed at the same exhibition, only days ago. We'd hoped to meet up but her flight was leaving CDG just about when ours was landing. . . . Nice to stand in front of the same painting this afternoon and feel her spirit there. . .

And if I were to share a favourite painting from the exhibition, much as I appreciated and enjoyed Kupka's abstracts, I couldn't help but love this tableau (included, I think, in the category of his allegorical or symbolic realist work). It's called Les Joies, and I love it for the way the women seem to be glorying in their own sensual carnality or at least corporeality -- they're not posed as objects for a male viewer, as I see them, but rather as subjects in their own right, engaged in pursuits that please them. . .

It may seem that we're spending all our time indoors viewing paintings on museum walls, but my iPhone shows that we've put between 10 kilometres and 17 kilometres of shoe leather on the streets of Paris. . . Lots of soaking up and making notes and taking photos is happening, but the reportage may have to wait. . . Hope you enjoyed this snippet.

Now it's time to figure out where to eat, this last evening in Paris before we're back here at the end of June. . . À tout à l'heure. . .

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