Picasso in Exile
Why bother visiting Paris, you might ask, as long as the Picasso Museum remains closed? Good question. But my family and I decided to go anyway, unwilling to wait another year. Our Picasso treasure hunt therefore required a little extra work, since you couldn’t very well go to just one place and be greeted by Picasso’s many persons and things. Our first Picasso sighting was just a fortunate accident–while strolling near our flat, my wife Casey spotted this wonderful, if bird-stained, bronze of Dora Maar (Tête de femme, aka Monument à Guillaume Apollinaire) in a small garden in the shadow of the gothic Church of St. Germain des Prés (located at its eponymous square). This wartime sculpture (1941) was chosen by committee to […]