I enjoyed lunch with my friend Bonnie at the Norton Simon Museum in Pasadena yesterday. We strolled around the water lily covered lagoon and enjoyed revising great sculptures by Henry Moore, Aristide Maillol and Pierre-Auguste Renoir and then we went inside to enjoy the Barbara Hepworth sculptures and works of the modern artists. Here is what grabbed my attention:
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| "Mountain" 1937 by Aristide Maillol |
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| Close up |
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| "Two-Piece Reclining Figure," 1968 by Henry Moore |
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| "Reclining Figure," 1956-60 by Henry Moore |
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| "Venus Victorious," 1914 by Pierre-Auguste Renoir |
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| "Sitting Cheetah," 1996 by Gwen Murrill |
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| "River," 1939-43 by Aristide Maillol |
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| "Air," 1938 by Aristide Maillol |
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| "Assembly of Sea Forms," 1972 by Barbara Hepworth |
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| "Unequal," 1932 by Vasily Kandinsky |
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| "Open Green," 1923 by Vasily Kandinsky, Russian, 1866-1944 part of the German Expressionists. |
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| "Heavy Circles," 1927 Kandinsky |
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| "Metalogical," 1930's by Paul Klee, (Swiss 1879-1940) |
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| "Two Heads," 1932 by Paul Klee |
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| "Bathing Girls," 1910 by Franz Marc (German 1880-1916). Marc's art was considered "degenerate" by the Nazi's and siezed in 1937. |
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| "Bathers Beneath Trees Fehmarn," 1913 by Ernst Ludwig Kirchner (German 1880-1938) |
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| "The Sea I," 1912 by Emil Nolde (German 1867-1956) |
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Artist and Model," 1939 oil and sand on canvas by George Braque (French 1882-1962) |
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| "Woman with a Book," 1932 by Pablo Picasso, (Spanish 1881-1973) |
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| "The Ram's Head," 1925 by Pablo Picasso |
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| "Sketch for Deluge I," 1912 by Kandinsky |
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