the steins collect
Wednesday, July 20th, 2011
A small and exquisite Renoir: the head of a blushing girl.
Picasso’s Boy Leading a Horse: monumental and charismatic.
A melancholy Matisse self-portrait.
Matisse as a genius colorist. Picasso as a genius of line. But three big pieces from the Blue Period. That’s a good blue.
Two from a Marie Laurencin that I really liked. This is one.
The Le Corbusier house. Daniel Stein gambling all the money away! A magazine headline: “From Picasso to ponies!” Zomg!
Bit overwhelmed at that point… I should go back. We joined SFMOMA. The building is gorgeous, and so’s the Blue Bottle kiosk with the Louise Bourgeois spider on the roof.