The Monet exhibit at the Grand Palais ends tonight at nine o'clock, and since Friday, the exhibit has been open 24/7 for the last viewers to get a glimpse of the paintings. Literally.
A friend invited me to the Monet exhibit on Friday morning. We had coupe-file (line-cutting) tickets called Sésame (for "Open Sesame!") and now I understood why back in November it didn't work simply to have tickets for a certain time. The people who did had to stand outside in the cold in a long, long line. With the carte Sésame we just walked in.
The Monet exhibit (I just accidentally typed Money, no doubt a Freudian slip) is a huge money-maker for the national museums. It brings together paintings that were made at the same time with the same theme, but which now reside in collections all over the world, from Melbourne to Moscow to Chicago. It was fascinating to see how the paintings developed and how Monet grew as a painter.
Unfortunately, you couldn't actually see the paintings until you were 10 inches in front of them.
Wow, that's quite a crowd. I'm glad you got to see them, even though it was a hassle to get close.
Posted by: chrissoup | 24 January 2011 at 21:30
I'm enjoying all of your sidebars, especially FUN FRENCH WORDS and LE PETIT APERÇU D'AILLEURS.
Posted by: chrissoup | 24 January 2011 at 21:34