The Hermitage - Matisse . . .

 

The reason we came to St. Petersburg was because of the Hermitage Annex exhibit in Amsterdam, which highlighted Matisse, especially Harmony In Red . . . . which apparently had returned home, here . . . so we messed up when we were in Amsterdam last week by not going back to the Annex, because there would have been new works there that we missed, if you see how I mean . . . 8^( . . .

 

Oh, the dang lights have marred my pic of these portraits of L.Delectorskaya (what a great name!) . . . .

 

We admired the Conversation tremendously, and perched on the bench to stare at this wall for a while. But we could see the cracking in the oil on this work, very visibly . . . like a dried river bed . . . very worrisome.

 

We argued for awhile whether the Satyr and the Nymph represents him throwing her down or just jumping her bones . . . 8^D . . .  we both can see both POV . . .

 

The Arab continues to grow on me . . . maybe because my old eyes are fading as bad as matisse’s . . .