Colette and I were walking past the Mairie of the 6th and spied signs for two exhibits, one of which,
of contemporary bookcovers by 138 artists is in a word - dazzling.
There's not much I can add to that except shout - RUN. Until January 9th.
The second show there of photos by Alain Zimeray, of the sea at sunset. distant shores and blue rubber boots is very very good but like opening for Bruce Springsteen.
A third show is a "small" show of good art by great artists; well, let me explain, it's big, very big, but in this horrible space, as always crowded with people my age (Jeez), 90 works by Braque, Dufy, Monet, Renoir, Signac, Matisse, Derain, Van Dongen, Vlaminck, Pissarro, Corot, Derain, Boudin and the lesser-known Friesz, Manguin and Marquet is not given its proper due. It should be at the Pinacotheque or the Petit Palais or even the Big Palace, but here it's like the Jacquemart-Andre without the staircases.
But to the show. It represents the efforts in 1906, of a group of art collectors and artists who formed the Modern Art Club (Cercle de l’Art moderne) in Le Havre (I'm cribbing aka stealing with attribution) and painted and donated a lot of interesting stuff to the Museum. Much of it is geographically local but much is not so.
Go? I'd say so, until January 6th.
