It was a beautiful day for lunch by the lily pad decorated pond and sculpture garden at the North Simon with my friend Bonnie. We then strolled through some of the galleries to visit old friend art pieces and to examine some of those we had missed in the past.
Here are some of what we enjoyed:
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| Sam Francis, American, 1923-1994, Basel Mural I 1956-58 |
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Sam Francis Basel Mural III, Fragment 1 & 2
These murals were painted in Paris as a part of three murals hung in the Basel Kunsthalle where they were hung until 1964. However, Swiss institutions declined to purchase them and one was sent to Amsterdam and the other two sent to the U.S. During shipment and storage, they sustained water damage. Basel Mural I was treated and then donated by the artist to the Pasadena Art Museum but the third was too difficult to repair. It was cut and and the portions that were undamaged were re stretched and donated to the museum in 2009 by the Sam Francis Foundation. |
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| "Woman with a Book," by Pablo Picasso |
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| "Three Standing Figures," 1953 by Henry Moore |
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| "Still Life with Musical Instruments," 1918 by Georges Braque, French, 1882-1963 |
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| "Woman with a Guitar," 1913 by Pablo Picasso 1881-1973. Picasso and Braque were colleagues and founded the Cubist movement...the representation of the tree-dimensional world on a two-dimensional picture plane. |
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| "Girl," 1931 by Angel Bracho, Mexican, 1911-2005 |
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| "Design," 1985 by Roberto Matta, Chilean, 1911-2002 |
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| "Blue Boy with the Banana," 1931 by Diego Rivera, Mexican, 1886-1957 |
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